Young folks' story of our country; a thrilling and accurate history of America, told in the simple language of childhood .. . t was saved to theUn-ion by the courage and patriotism of a Un-ion officer, Lieutenant .Slem-mer. He was succeeded in the command by Colonel Brown, who arrived withre-enforcements. On a dark night, Oc-to-ber 9, the Con-fed-er-ates cameover in force from Pen-sa-co-la, and, after surprising and severely handlinga New York regiment, were driven of?. Throughout the war, Fort Pick-ensfirmly held guard over the approaches to Pen-sa-co-la. In 1861, the North suffered serious r
Young folks' story of our country; a thrilling and accurate history of America, told in the simple language of childhood .. . t was saved to theUn-ion by the courage and patriotism of a Un-ion officer, Lieutenant .Slem-mer. He was succeeded in the command by Colonel Brown, who arrived withre-enforcements. On a dark night, Oc-to-ber 9, the Con-fed-er-ates cameover in force from Pen-sa-co-la, and, after surprising and severely handlinga New York regiment, were driven of?. Throughout the war, Fort Pick-ensfirmly held guard over the approaches to Pen-sa-co-la. In 1861, the North suffered serious reverses in the loss of Nor-folk,of Har-pers Fer-ry, in the battle of Bull Run, and in the severe check atBalls Bluff. ^luch, however, had been gained. Mis-sou-ri was saved to theUn-ion after hard fighting. Western Mr-gin-i-a had been preserved in the sameway. The rapidly increasing navy had made the blockade effectual. Thearmy, augmented by numerous levies to a million of men, was being drilled forfuture operations. The South was also active, and was straining every nervein preparation for the struggle of the next CHAPTER SURRENDER. At the beginning of the year 1862 the war had assumed immense pro-portions. It was no longer to be carried on by one ortwo small armies actingwithout concert, but through a wide, yet connected series of naval and militaryoperations, some of tliem at points more than a thousand miles apart. Thegreat objects to be accomplished by these fleets and armies were chiefly, in theWest and extreme South, the opening of the Mis-sis-sip-pi River to the Unionarmies; in the East the capture of Rich-mond, now the Con-fed-er-ate capital;and the tliorough blockade of the Southern coast. In the West, General Bu-ell was in command of an army, the head-quarters of which were at Louis-ville; General Hal-leck, with another army,lay further west, with his headquarters at St. Louis. In addition to these, alarge fleet of river steamers and gun-boat
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