. Our greater country; being a standard history of the United States from the discovery of the American continent to the present time ... mer of 1862, and succeeded in reaching49 breach of its neutrality, demanded the releaseof the Florida, but while the negotiationswere in progress, she was sunk in HamptonRoads by a collision with another vessel. The most famous of all the Confederatecruisers, was the Alabama. She was builtat Liverpool, and was suffered to go to seain spite of the protest of the American fjo THE CIVIL WAR. minister at London. She was co mmanded by-Captain Raphael Semmes, ard
. Our greater country; being a standard history of the United States from the discovery of the American continent to the present time ... mer of 1862, and succeeded in reaching49 breach of its neutrality, demanded the releaseof the Florida, but while the negotiationswere in progress, she was sunk in HamptonRoads by a collision with another vessel. The most famous of all the Confederatecruisers, was the Alabama. She was builtat Liverpool, and was suffered to go to seain spite of the protest of the American fjo THE CIVIL WAR. minister at London. She was co mmanded by-Captain Raphael Semmes, ard during herlong career, captured sixty-five merchantvessels, and destroyed over ten millions ofdollars worth of property. During her entirecareer, she never entered a Confederate the summer of 1864, she put into theharbor of Cherbourg, in France, and wasblockaded there by the United States warsteamer, Kearsarge, Captain French government ordered the Ala-bama to leave Cherbourg, and she went tosea on the nineteenth of June. She was atonce attacked by the Kearsarge, and wassunk by the guns of that steamer, after an. RAx^HAEL SEMMES engagement of an hour and a was saved from drowning by theEnglish yacht, Deerhound, that had wit-nessed the battle and was set ashore. Thedestruction of the Alabama was hailedwith delight throughout the North. In the fall of 1864, the presidential electionwas held in the States remaining faithful to theUnion. The Republican party nominatedPresident Lincoln for re-election, and AndrewJohnson, of Tennessee for the Democratic party supported GeneralGeorge B. McClellan for the presidency, andGeorge H. Pendleton, of Ohio, for the vice-presidency. Mr. Lincoln received at the polls, 2,213,665 votes to 1,802,237 cast foiMcClellan ; and the electoral votes of everyState, save those of New Jersey, Delaware,and Kentucky, were cast for him. On the thirty-first of October, 1864, Nevadawas admitted into the Union
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