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Identifier: americafromdisco00boyd (find matches)
Title: America, from discovery in 1942 to the present time
Year: 1894 (1890s)
Authors: Boyd, James P(enny) (from old catalog)
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Publisher: Mansfield, Ohio, Estill & co
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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in killed and wounded. Grant tried another flanking movement, and swung southwardto the North Anna. He crossed this river in the face of fierceopposition, and swung again to the Pamunkey, and reached abase of supplies by water. On May 28 he was at Cold Harbor,twenty miles from Richmond. Here was fought one of the mostdesperate battles of the war, June 3, in which the Union losseswere 7000. The enemys losses were not so great, they havingfought from inner and fortified lines. Grant resolved on another flank movement, and this time he
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^4^>- GRANT AND MEADE IN THE WILDERNESS. 613 614 PRESIDENTS AND ADMINISTRATIONS. tlirevv his army south of the James river, resolved to attackRichmond on the south, by way of Petersburg. By May i6thhis army was south of the James, and an attack was made onPetersburg, which foiled. Grant then besieged the place, andhis lines became the final lines of the war, Lee having thrownhis entire army into the place. Meanwhile Sherman had begun his move from Chattanoogaon Atlanta, Ga. He compelled the Confederate General Johnsonto evacuate Dalton, gained the important battles of Resaca,Dallas, Allatoona Pass, Kenesaw Mountain and the severalengagements around Atlanta, June 20-28. On Sept. 2 hetook possession of the city, having compelled Hoods army toretreat. On June 10 the Union forces under Sturgis were defeated atGuntown, Miss., by Forrests Confederate cavalry, but, soon after,General Smith, who succeeded Sturgis, defeated the Confederatesand restored supremacy in that section. On June 15

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