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Title: The Civil War : the national view
Year: 1906 (1900s)
Authors: Thorpe, Francis Newton, 1857-1926
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Publisher: Philadelphia : George Barrie & Sons
Contributing Library: Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection
Digitizing Sponsor: The Institute of Museum and Library Services through an Indiana State Library LSTA Grant

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THE WAR Z^3> parallel. It had been a 3^ear of defeats, losses, disasters, ofnational trials unprecedented. Yet the North was not despondent and the tone of herthought was higher than amidst the gloomy days of the yearbefore. The North was becoming a fighting machine—though as yet not exactly in working order. Every deadsoldier-boy in the Wilderness, mourned in his Northernhome, was a new impulse for freedom. Until Chancellors-ville the North had thought of protection and self-defense,not of conquest; but from that disaster she turned withstern face and determined heart and a new feeling—hatredof all for which the Confederacy stood ; impassioned lovefor the cause of the Nation. If war was the trade whichmust be learned in order that the Nation might live, theNorth was resolved to learn it. But she was anxiouslyasking—Is there not a general who can win victories? Orare all the great soldiers fighting for the Confederacy? T -./, tjUrjJir ijO.5 OlJ^ -3. •/J,ir.,y,,-,,^_ V,/„
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HIRAM ULYSSES GRANT From the painting by A. Muller Ury in the Corcoran Gallery^ JVashinston. o CHAPTER VIrHE THIRD TEAR OF THE WAR Chancellorsville opened the North to Invasion andGeneral Lee sprang to the opportunity. Vicksburg was thecompelling reason; the series of defeats of the Army of thePotomac, the immediate encouragement. Grant was invest-ing Vicksburg and Its fall meant the reopening of the Mis-sissippi and the cleaving of the Confederacy, hopelessly,from north to south; if Lee could sweep through Pennsyl-vania, levy tribute on Its great cities, Pittsburg, Philadelphia;seize Harrisburg, and march down upon Washington, hemight bring the war to an end and dictate terms of peaceat the National capital. To the leaders of the victoriousConfederacy the plan was not chimerical: there was theopportunity and there was General Lee, and the achievementof the plan might not seem Impossible. Southern sympa-thizers at the North were voluble and communicative; theCopperhead element might b

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