. The battles of the war for the union. The story of the great Civil War, from the election of Abraham Lincoln to the surrender at Appomatox, Impartially told . called into the service of the United States42,000 volunteers for three years; ordered an increaseof the regular army to the extent of 22,714 officers andenlisted men, for not less than one year, nor more thanthree years; and directed the enlistment of 18,000 sea-men for the naval service. The response to thesedemands showed how thoroughly in earnest were thepeople of the loyal States in their resistance to number of volu
. The battles of the war for the union. The story of the great Civil War, from the election of Abraham Lincoln to the surrender at Appomatox, Impartially told . called into the service of the United States42,000 volunteers for three years; ordered an increaseof the regular army to the extent of 22,714 officers andenlisted men, for not less than one year, nor more thanthree years; and directed the enlistment of 18,000 sea-men for the naval service. The response to thesedemands showed how thoroughly in earnest were thepeople of the loyal States in their resistance to number of volunteers exceeded the demands of theGovernment, and money, amounting to more than fortymillions of dollars, was subscribed for the various pur-poses of the war. The Capitol at Washington was by this time changedinto a great citadel. Troops occupied the legislativehalls, the rotunda, and other chambers ; the basementgalleries were converted into storerooms for the army; THE CALL FOR TROOPS. 19 and the vaults under the terrace on the western front ofthe edifice were used as ovens, where 16,000 loaves werebaked every day. Before the summer had fairly set in,. BENJAMIN F. BUTLER. the Federal capital had been protected by a line of forti-fications and entrenchments, distributed along theneighboring heights on the Virginian side of the Poto- 20 THE BATTLES FOR THE UNION-. mac, and presenting a formidable front to any hostileforce coming from that direction. Major-General Mc-Dowell, an officer of the regular army, was placed incommand of the troops on the south side of the river,and the greater portion of the district recently underthe orders of General Butler was transferred to Northern forces had now reached a total of about95,000 men, divided into eight distinct bodies, whichwere stationed in various parts of the country. Severalof the men, however, were not yet armed, and but fewof the regiments had acquired anything like efficientdiscipline. The chief rallying-place of the
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