Identifier: storyofournation00stra (find matches)
Title: The story of our nation, from the earliest discoveries to the present time ... together with a graphic account of Porto Rico, Cuba, Hawaii and the Philippine islands ..
Year: 1902 (1900s)
Authors: Stratton, Ella (Hines), Mrs. (from old catalog)
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Publisher: Philadelphia, National publishing co
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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GENERAL SHERMAN AT THE OUTBREAK OF THE WAR. Crittenden occupied Chattanooga, Tenn. ; and Steele took Little Rock,Ark., September io, said Charlie. That briugs us to the battle of Chickamauga, Ga, September19-20, when Bragg was victorious, and Rosecrans lost sixteen thousandmen, added Nettie.
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THE GREAT CIIVL WAR. 257 But November 23-25, the Federals defeated Bragg at the battle ofChattanooga and Lookout Mountain, declared Josie. And December 4, Lougstreet raised the siege of Knoxville, Tenn.,and that ended the battles for 1863, said Hadley. The close ofthe year brought hope to the North. The navy had not been idle ; and,in spite of the losses in Chancellorsville and Chickamauga, and the inva-sion of Maryland and Pennsylvania, the South were fairly started on theroad to defeat; the Confederate army was driven from Missouri and thegreater part of Arkansas ; the Mississippi river was in the hands of theFederals ; Tennessee also ; and the invasion of the North had ended indisaster. New industries had been opened, and, in fact, the North wasgrowing richer, as the South was growing poorer, because of the war. kt So the year opened with bright promise for the National cause, although Richmond was still baffling thearmy of the Potomac; Charleston was still held bv the Confederate

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