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Title: The appeal to arms, 1861-1863
Year: 1907 (1900s)
Authors: Hosmer, James Kendall, 1834- (from old catalog)
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Publisher: New York and London, Harper & brothers
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to effect a diversion in behalf of troopsexposed to danger in southeast Missouri, he foughtthe battle of Belmont. The Confederates had seizedColimibus, Kentucky, on the high bluff opposite,and Grant was met with vigor and skill. A drawnbattle was the result, the rawness of the Federalssnatching away the victory when it seemed gained.Grant retired on his transports to Cairo, where wefind him at the opening of the memorable year 1862.Together with Grant stood in that western arenaat the outset of 1862 a companion champion hardlyless noteworthy. Like Grant, William TecumsehSherman * was of ancient Puritan New Englandstrain, of the family of the revolutionary RogerSherman, brother of John Sherman, of Ohio, alliedto the Hoars, of Massachusetts, and to William M.Evarts, of New York. His father early went outfrom Connecticut to the fire-lands of Ohio, whereWilliam was born while the region still retained itsfrontier conditions, the shadow of the power of the * Sherman, Memoirs, I., 9 et seq.
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i862) WESTERN ADVANCE 87 mighty Indian chief whose name was given to thechild having but recently passed away. He grewto manhood slender and sinewy, with prominentforehead over alert brown eyes, and energetic speechand manner—a man, like Grant, of direct and simplenature. After due military discipline at West Point,in Mexico, and on the border, and experience as ateacher and a man of business, we have seen himhead a brigade in the charge up the Henry househill at the first Bull Run. He then went West at therequest of General Robert Anderson; and whenpresently that officer succumbed to ill-health, Sher-man succeeded him for a brief time in command ofthe Department of the Ohio. It became known tothe administration and the country that Shermanhad said that two hundred thousand men would beneeded for offensive operations in the West alone; acry arose that he had gone crazy,* and he retired toSt. Louis disheartened and discredited. Fortunatelyfor the Union it was a short withdrawal. In t

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