. Our greater country; being a standard history of the United States from the discovery of the American continent to the present time ... ith all speed around tothe Potomac. These troops reachedWashington before thearrival of Early, whoappeared before the de-fences of that city onthe eleventh of July. Hefound the works toostrongly manned to beattacked by his skirmishing forseveral days before them,he withdrew across thePotomac on the four-teenth, and retreated tothe neighborhood ofWinchester. Earlys movement soalarmed the Federal gov-ernment for the safety ofWashington that a force
. Our greater country; being a standard history of the United States from the discovery of the American continent to the present time ... ith all speed around tothe Potomac. These troops reachedWashington before thearrival of Early, whoappeared before the de-fences of that city onthe eleventh of July. Hefound the works toostrongly manned to beattacked by his skirmishing forseveral days before them,he withdrew across thePotomac on the four-teenth, and retreated tothe neighborhood ofWinchester. Earlys movement soalarmed the Federal gov-ernment for the safety ofWashington that a force of forty thousandmen, ten thousand of which were the splen-did cavalry of Sheridan, was stationed in thevalley, and Major-General Sheridan was ap-pointed to the command of this army. HadGrant been able to retain these troops withhis own army, it is safe to say that Lee would have been forced to abandon his position atPetersburg in the autumn of 1864. Theirabsence in the valley enabled the Con-federate leader to prolong his defence throughthe winter. As soon as he had gotten his forces wellin hand, Sheridan advanced upon Early, and. GENERAL S. HANCOCK on the nineteenth defeated him at Win-chester, and drove him back to FishersHill, where on the twenty-second, he againdefeated him and drove him out of thevalley, pursuing him as far as Staunton. Bythe orders of General Grant, General Sheri-dan now laid waste the entire valley of the
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