. The history of our country from its discovery by Columbus to the celebration of the centennial anniversary of its declaration of independence ... POOR OLD SiMPLEVlRGINIA 1 _ttA_. velope, bearing the picture of an old woman bowed on her staff,Avhile over her back two opposing armies rushed to battle. Thewords of Governor Pickens had come true. Thus far, the deadhestwarfare, the fiercest slaughter, has raged in Virginia, and it con-tinued to be so, till the rebels in Virginia had drank to the depthsthe bitter cup of secession. The two watch-words of the year 1864 were, On to Richmond,and On to
. The history of our country from its discovery by Columbus to the celebration of the centennial anniversary of its declaration of independence ... POOR OLD SiMPLEVlRGINIA 1 _ttA_. velope, bearing the picture of an old woman bowed on her staff,Avhile over her back two opposing armies rushed to battle. Thewords of Governor Pickens had come true. Thus far, the deadhestwarfare, the fiercest slaughter, has raged in Virginia, and it con-tinued to be so, till the rebels in Virginia had drank to the depthsthe bitter cup of secession. The two watch-words of the year 1864 were, On to Richmond,and On to Atlanta. The first had been the war-cry of the• Army of the Potomac ever since it began to muster its hosts inthe field. The second cry was only raised after the enemy hadbeen swept fi-om his last foothold in Kentucky and Tennessee, anddriven to Georgia. You have seen by this time that while the story of the army ofthe West had been one of success since the line of the rebel armygave way in Kentucky, after the taking of Donelson, the story of 548 STOHY OF OUR COUNTRY. the East had been one of defeat only. Thousands of men had beenlost in the swamps of the Peninsula, and
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