Triumphs and wonders of the 19th century, a volume of original, historic and descriptive writings showing the many and marvellous achievements which distinguish an hundred years of material, intellectual, social and moral progress (1901)
Boyd, James Penny, 1836-1910 · Philadelphia, A. J. Holman & co · leaf 416
bama took place off Cherbourg, France. The Alabama was sunk after a fivehours fight. Admiral Semmes was rescued by the Deerhound, belonging toan English gentleman, and thus saved from capture. August 5, CommodoreFarragut, overcoming the Confederate ram Tennessee and the gunboats,sailed into Mobile… … SHERMANS MARCH TO THE SB A. 390 TRIUMPHS AND WONDERS OF THE XIXth CENTURY ■which had been so lengthened that the lines of Lees depleted army werevery thin. The Confederates were driven back with heavy loss. Lee tele-graphed to Davis: My lines are broken in three places; we can hold Peters-burg no…
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