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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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ed toright, under Custer,was attacked by Con-federate cavalry andinfantry, and a severeskirmish ensued, re-sulting in the repulseof the enemy. Nextday a careful recon-noissance was madefrom the left towardsStrasburg and Fish-ers Hill; but no signof movement on thepart of the enem)-was discovered. Dis-patches, however.werecaptured; and it wasthus ascertained thatreinforcements hadbeen sent to Early,for the purpose ofenabling him to attackand defeat Sheridan. Early, in fact, hadjust received a rein-forcement of sometwelve thousand men.His actual strengthwas thus increased totwenty-seven thou-sand. His army wasstill smaller than thatof Sheridan. Encour-aged, however, by solarge an accession ofstrength, Early pre-pared to put in execu-tion one of the most audacious movements of the war. country between chattanooga and Atlanta. Before break of day on the nineteenth, advance against the National right, so as toUq arranged his troopsat Fishers Hill and occupy the attention of Torbert and the
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THE CIVIL WAR. Sixth corps. His infantry marched in fivecolumns, of which Gordons, Ramseurs, andPegrams were ordered to place themselvesby daybreak on the left rear of the wholeNational position, while Kershaws andWhartons were to endeavor to get, aboutthe same time, close under the entrenchedrising ground on which lay Crooks com-mand. To turn the National left, it was

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