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Title: Popular history of the civil war
Year: 1894 (1890s)
Authors: Cheney, C. Emma (Clara Emma)
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Publisher: Boston : Estes and Lauriat
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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sorts of obstacles onthe way, the Army of the Potomac went into camp beforeYorktown, where, nearly one hundred )ears before, GeneralWashington had pitched his tent. It was here that LordCornwallis surrendered. On this peninsula, also, John Smithand Pocahontas made each others acquaintance in suchromantic fashion. On historic ground like this, what couldone look for but victory ? While the country was clamoring for action, and wonderingwhat McClellan was waiting for, it began to be seen. Earth-works sprang up. Trenches were dug. Siege-guns weremounted. Every possible preparation for defence and attackwas made, because a terrible battle was expected. ProfessorLowe made daily observations of the enemys movements inhis balloon. One day General Fitz-John Porter was aboutto make the ascension with him, when suddenly the balloonbroke loose, and began to rise. General Porter cried outin alarm that he was getting, higher and higher. Pull thestring, was the answer. He tugged at a rope which was
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i868.( On to RickiHondf* 241 dangling. No ! pull the other, shouted the professor.General Porter seized the right one at last, and graduallybegan to come down. He descended a long way from thestarting-point. Was it not fortunate that he did not findhimself in the enemys camp? When General McClellan was nearly ready to open thebombardment of Yorktown, he was astonished by a cannon-ade from the enemy. All day long the roar shook the ground,and at night it did not stop. Suddenly, at midnight, it washushed; and, when morning dawned, the rebels were gone.From his balloon Professor Lowe could see that they hadpacked up their baggage, and departed under cover of theirown guns. They took care, however, to leave many litdetokens of brotherly-love in the shape of torpedoes, whichwere planted where, in walking, the soldiers were sure toexplode them. But General McClellan made some Confed-erate prisoners dig them up. General John Magruder, therebel commander at Yorktown, in his official report to

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