Triumphs and wonders of the 19th century, the true mirror of a phenomenal era, a volume of original, entertaining and instructive historic and descriptive writings, showing the many and marvellous achievements which distinguish an hundred years of material, intellectual, social and moral progress .. (1899)
Boyd, James Penny, 1836-1910 · Philadelphia, Pa., A. J. Holman & Co · leaf 408
hree months, three hun-dred thousand men were in the field. One hundred thousand had swarmedto the Confederate ranks. General McClellan was scut to the front and,after the resignation of Scott in the latter part of the year, was made com-mander of the army. July 21, the battle of Bull Run was… … CASTLE WILLIAM. MILITARY PRISON, GOVERNORS ISLAND, NEW YORK IIALBOR. Norfolk was evacuated by the Union forces. The frigate Merrimac, whichhad been sunk, was raised by the Confederates, plated with iron, renamed« Virginia, and became the scourge of the shipping off the Virginia coast. The navy, as…
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