United States; a history: the most complete and most popular history of the United States of America from the aboriginal times to the present . hecrossed the Rappahannock with a body of ten thousand men, tore up theVirginia Central Railroad, dashed on to the Chickahominy, cut GeneralLees communications,swept around withina few miles of Rich-mond, and on the 8thof May recrossed theRappahannock insafety. At the sametime, General Peck,the Federal command-ant of Suffolk, on theNansemond, was suc-cessfully resisting asiege conducted byGeneral Confederates re-treated from before
United States; a history: the most complete and most popular history of the United States of America from the aboriginal times to the present . hecrossed the Rappahannock with a body of ten thousand men, tore up theVirginia Central Railroad, dashed on to the Chickahominy, cut GeneralLees communications,swept around withina few miles of Rich-mond, and on the 8thof May recrossed theRappahannock insafety. At the sametime, General Peck,the Federal command-ant of Suffolk, on theNansemond, was suc-cessfully resisting asiege conducted byGeneral Confederates re-treated from before thetown on the very dayof the Union disasterat Chancellorsville. Elated with hissuccess on the Rappa-hannock, General Leedetermined to carrythe war into Mary-land and Pennsylvania *The true name of this remarkable man was Thomas Jonathan Jackson. In the be-ginning of the battle of Bull Run, when the Confederates in one part of the field wererouted and flying, General Bee, pointing to an immovable column of men, cried out,Here is Jackson, standing like a stone watt/ From that day the man at the head ofthat column was called Stonewall STONEWALL JACKSON.* In the first week of June he moved forward 520 HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES. with his whole army, crossed the Potomac, and captured the 22d of June the invaders entered Chambersburg, and thenpressed on through Carlisle to within a few miles of militia of Pennsylvania was called out, and volunteers camepouring in from other States. General Hooker, at the head of theArmy of the Potomac, pushed forward to strike his antagonist. It was evident thata great and deci-sive battle was ath a n d . GeneralLee, abandoninghis purpose ofinvasion, rapidlyconcentrated hisforces near Get-tysburg, the cap-ital of AdamsCounty, Penn-sylvania. On thevery eve of bat-tle the commandof the Union ar-my was transfer-red from GeneralHooker to Gen-eral George , who has-tily advanced hisforces t h r o u g hthe h
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