History and government of the United States, for evening schools . ortress of Vicks-burg on the Mississippi River was captured. Though the Unionarmy suffered severe defeat by the Confederates at Chicka-mauga, Tennessee, they retreated to Chattanooga, where theywon a brilliant victory under General Grant. The Union armythen moved southeastward through the mountains, fightingmany battles, until they reached Atlanta, Georgia. 1864.—From there, in 1864, Sherman led his army to Sa-vannah, tearing up every railroad, and burning all the buildingsfor miles in every direction. The result of this Wester
History and government of the United States, for evening schools . ortress of Vicks-burg on the Mississippi River was captured. Though the Unionarmy suffered severe defeat by the Confederates at Chicka-mauga, Tennessee, they retreated to Chattanooga, where theywon a brilliant victory under General Grant. The Union armythen moved southeastward through the mountains, fightingmany battles, until they reached Atlanta, Georgia. 1864.—From there, in 1864, Sherman led his army to Sa-vannah, tearing up every railroad, and burning all the buildingsfor miles in every direction. The result of this Western andSouthern campaign was to separate Texas, Louisiana, Arkansas, 50 HISTORY OF OUR COUNTRY Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, and Florida from the Confed-eracy, and to paralyze agriculture and business throughoutthe entire region. Among the greatest battles was thatof Nashville (December, 1864), where the Confederate armysuffered so great a defeat by the Union army under Thomasthat thereafter it was unable to accomplish anything inopposition to the Union MeRRIMAC AM) MoMTOi; Campaign in Virginia, 1861-1865. — The campaign in Vir-ginia was of a very different nature, for the armies again andagain fought over the same territory; even more men wereengaged here than in the Western and Southern campaign, andgreater battles were fought. In July, 1861, the Union armysuffered a great defeat at Bull Run, not far from Washington;and in the Peninsular Campaign in 1862 their attempt tocapture the Confederate capital, Richmond, ended in Southern general, Robert E. Lee, then made an invasionof the North, but was stopped by the Union victory at Antie-tam, Maryland, in September, 1862. Two more attempts of the HISTORY OF OUR COUNTRY 51 Union army to advance on Richmond resulted in their defeatat Fredericksburg in December, 1862, and at Chancellorsvillein May, 1863. On July 1, 2, and 3 of 1863, Lees second in-vasion of the North was stopped by the tremendous battle ofGett
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