Identifier: ourgreatercountr00nort (find matches)
Title: Our greater country; being a standard history of the United States from the discovery of the American continent to the present time ..
Year: 1901 (1900s)
Authors: Northrop, Henry Davenport, 1836-1909
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Publisher: Philadelphia, National pub co.
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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consisted of thirty-one thousand four hundred and thirty-onemen and fifty-five guns. On the eighteenth of July General Mc-Dowell attempted to force a passage of Bull Run at Blackburns ford, but was repulsed. On the morning of the twenty-first, the Union army advanced in force, and endeavored to turn the left of the Southern line. An obstinately-contested battle ensued, which lasted from sunrise until nearly sunset. It resulted in the total defeat of the Federal army, which was driven back in utter rout upon Alexandria and Washington, with a loss of between four and five thousand men in killed, wounded and prisoners, and twenty-eight pieces of artillery. For a while the effects of this disaster upon the Federal army were so great that Washington was almost defenceless; but the Confederates made no effort to follow up their victory. They were almost as hadly de-moralized by their success as the Union army by its defeat. Recovering from the dismay of its fir?*crreat reverse, the government went to work
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. The blue coats and how they lived, fought and died for the Union : with scenes and incidents in the Great Rebellion comprising narratives of personal adventure, thrilling incidents, daring exploits, heroic deeds, wonderful escapes, life in the camp, field and hospital, adventures of spies and scouts, together with the songs, ballads, anecdotes and humorous incidents of the war . on approachon the west—thus hoping to effect^ surprise in that direc-tion, as the enemy was, doubtless, aligned to receive theassault on the Boliver road, on the north. Of this detourWhite knew nothing, and after his

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