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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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nferior force of Con-federates, under General Albert Sidney John-ston, held Bowling Greenand covered Nashvilleand the Tennessee andthe Cumberland Rivers.They also held Colum-bus and other prominentpoints on the Mississippi.The Army of the Poto-mac, under General Mc-Clellan, lay along thePotomac, confrontingthe Confederate army ofNorthern Virginia,whichheld Centreville. A con-DONELSON. siderable force was col- lected at Fortress Monroe, and an army ofabout 10,000 Confederates, under Magruder,held a strongly fortified line, extending fromYorktown across the Peninsula to the JamesRiver. In addition to these forces, the FederalGovernment had collected a powerful flotillaof steamers and gunboats at Cairo, the junc-tion of the Ohio and Mississippi rivers, toassist in the operations of the Westernarmies. The capture of New Orleans hadbeen resolved upon, and a combined navaland military expedition under CommodoreFarragut and General Butler was assembledfor that purpose; and another expedition
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