. Our greater country; being a standard history of the United States from the discovery of the American continent to the present time ... ?ortr4-:ts of prominent federal generals. 6^7 Sy^ THE CIVIL UAIL with vigor to repair the disaster. The levyof five hundred thousand men ordered by. MAP SHOWING THE SHENANDOAH VALLEY. Congress was raised promptly and withoutdifficulty, so eager was the desire of the people to wipe out the d^graccOi bull Run. At his own request General Scott, whosebodily infirmities wereso great as to renderhim unable to dis-charge the duties c/his position, was re>lieved
. Our greater country; being a standard history of the United States from the discovery of the American continent to the present time ... ?ortr4-:ts of prominent federal generals. 6^7 Sy^ THE CIVIL UAIL with vigor to repair the disaster. The levyof five hundred thousand men ordered by. MAP SHOWING THE SHENANDOAH VALLEY. Congress was raised promptly and withoutdifficulty, so eager was the desire of the people to wipe out the d^graccOi bull Run. At his own request General Scott, whosebodily infirmities wereso great as to renderhim unable to dis-charge the duties c/his position, was re>lieved of the com*mand of the McClellan wasgiven the chief com-mand of the armiesof the Union, and or-dered to take chargeof the force assem-bling before Wash-ington, which wasnamed the Army ofthe Potomac. Hedevoted himself withsuccess to the task oforganizing and dis-ciplining the recruits,which came pouringin during the fall andwi .iCr. The remainder ofthe year 1861 passedaway quietly on thePotomac, with thesingle exception 0/the battle of Lees-burg. Colonel Baker,with a force of twothousand men, wassent by General Stoneto cross the Potomacat Edwards ferry, anddrive back the Con-federate force underGeneral Evans from its position near Leesburg. He made his
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