Identifier: triumphswonderso01boyd (find matches)
Title: Triumphs and wonders of the 19th century, the true mirror of a phenomenal era, a volume of original, entertaining and instructive historic and descriptive writings, showing the many and marvellous achievements which distinguish an hundred years of material, intellectual, social and moral progress ..
Year: 1899 (1890s)
Authors: Boyd, James Penny, 1836-1910
Subjects: Progress Inventions
Publisher: Philadelphia, Pa., A. J. Holman & Co
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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troyed by theConfederates before evacuating Norfolk, May 10. Admiral Farragut, with a fleet of 45 vessels, entered the Mississippi andbombarded the forts of St. Philip and Jackson. Despising the fear of minesand torpedoes, he continued on his course, defeating the Confederate fleet,and, together with General Butler, entered New Orleans April 25. Duringthis year the navy, with the assistance of land forces, had retaken all impor-tant ports on the Virginia, North Carolina, and Georgia coasts, seriouslyinterfering with the blockade running, upon which the Confederacy depended LEADING WARS OF THE CENTURY 385 for its foreign supplies. The year 1862 closed with no advantage havingbeen gained on either side. 1863. — On January 1, Lincoln issued the threatened Emancipation Pro-clamation. This destroyed the last hope of the Confederacy for recognitionby England. No event of importance occurred before the middle of spring,when Hooker, who had relieved Burnside, made another advance upon Rich-
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GENEUALS ROBERT E. LEE AND STONEWALL JACKSON. mond, and was routed by Lee and Jackson at Chancellorsville. May 2, andon the 5th was forced across the Rapidan with a loss of seventeen thousand.The Confederate loss was less than five thousand. In Jacksons death theConfederacy received a blow, the consequences of which may never be esti-mated. Lees army again crossed the Potomac for an invasion of the North. TheUnion forces, under Meade, marched in an almost parallel line with Lees25 386 TRIUMPHS AND WONDERS OF THE XIXth CENTURY through Maryland into Pennsylvania. They met and fought at Gettysburg,July 1, 2, and 3, one of the decisive battles of the worlds history. Lee wasforced to again retire beyond the river. The Union could well afford theloss of twenty-three thousand men, but Lees loss of twenty thousand of thechoice troops of his army was irreparable. In the meantime, Grant had been sent to open the Mississippi, and after asix weeks siege, on July 4, Vicksburg, with nearly thirty t

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