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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.: . ti.AL GEORGE A. CUSTER FAMOUS CAVALRY COMMANDER, ASSOCIATED WITH GENERAL SHERIDAN IN THE PURSUIT AND CAPTURE OF GENERAL LEES ARMY ; AFTERWARD CELEBRATED INDIAN FIGHTER ; KILLED BY THE INDIANS, JUNE 25, 1876
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ADMINISTRATION OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN. 753 Shenandoah, destroying all the crops, mills,barns, and farming implements, and drivingoff the cattle with his army as he movedback. Early was reinforced after his retreat tothe upper valley, and about the middle ofOctober advanced down the valley towardsthe Federal position with a force of ninethousand men and forty pieces of cannon.The Union army lay at Cedar Creek, andwas under the temporary command of Gen-eral Wright during the absence of GeneralSheridan. On thenineteenth of Oc-tober Early attack-ed this force, anddrove it back forseveral miles. In-stead of continuingthe pursuit, histroops stopped toolunder the Federalcamp,whichhad fal-len into their hands. General Wrightrallied his men andreformed them in anew position, andat this momentGeneral Sheridanarrived on the field. He had heard the firing at Winchester,twenty miles away, and had ridden at fullspeed from that place to rejoin his army. Heat once ordered it to advance upon Early,whose m

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