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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nd Indiana troops, under General GeorgeB. McClellan, was sent into that region.McClellan set to work at once to drive theConfederates out of West Virginia, and onthe third of June a portion of his command,under General Kelly, defeated GeneralGarnett at Philippi. McClellan now advanced ADMINISTRATION OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN. 6;$ against the main body of Garnetts forces.On the eleventh of July, he attacked the com-mand of Colonel Pegram at Rich Mountain,and defeated it. This defeat compelled Gen-eral Garnett to fall back towards the valleyof Virginia. He was pursued by McClellanand overtaken at Carricks ford, on the Cheatriver. In the battle which ensued here, Gar- mander, Colonel Ellsworth, was killed by acitizen. Strong defences were erected onthe Virginia shore between Washington andAlexandria, and the army was encampedwithin these lines. Two months were passedin organizing and disciplining this force, andin the meantime the people of the Northernand Western States became impatient of the
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THE SIXTH MASSACHUSETTS REGIMENT PASSING THROUGH BALTIMORE. nett was killed, and the remnant of his com-mand was driven beyond the mountains. • The United States had assembled a con-siderable army of volunteers and regulars atWashington under Major-General Irwin Mc-Dowell. On the twenty-fourth of May, Alex-andria, on the Virginia side of the Potomac,nine miles below Washington, was seized by9. detachment from this army. Its corn- delay, and demanded an immediate advanceupon the southern army and Richmond. Preparatory to his own advance. GeneralMcDowell sent General Patterson with twentythousand men to cross the Potomac at Wil-liamsport, and prevent General Johnston fromleaving the valley and joining Beauregard atManassas. Upon the arrival of Pattersonon the upper Potomac, General Johnston ^7^ THE CIVIL WA^. evacuated Harpers Ferry and took position atWinchester. Patterson made a consiaerabreshow of force in the valley, but refrainedfrom attacking Johnston, although the lattersought

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