. Ridpath's history of the world : being an account of the principal events in the career of the human race from the beginnings of civilization to the present time, comprising the development of social instititions and the story of all nations . to thedefenses, and by the close of June, Peters-burg was regularly invested for a sjege. A branch campaign had, in the meantime,been under way in the Shenandoah moving forward from the Rapiilan, Gen-eral Grant had despatched Sigel up the valleywith a force „ eight thousand men. On the15th of May, while the latter was advancingsouthward, he w
. Ridpath's history of the world : being an account of the principal events in the career of the human race from the beginnings of civilization to the present time, comprising the development of social instititions and the story of all nations . to thedefenses, and by the close of June, Peters-burg was regularly invested for a sjege. A branch campaign had, in the meantime,been under way in the Shenandoah moving forward from the Rapiilan, Gen-eral Grant had despatched Sigel up the valleywith a force „ eight thousand men. On the15th of May, while the latter was advancingsouthward, he was met at New Market, fiftymiles above Winchester, by an army of Con-federate cavalry, under General Union force was attacked and routed, and 158 UNIVERSAL HISTORY.—THE MODERN WORLD. ihe conimand of the flying divisions was trans-ferred to General Hunter. Breckinridge, be-lieving himself conipletelyvictorious in the val-ley, returned to Richmond, whereupon, Hunterfaced about towards Lynchburg, came uponthe Confederates at Piedmont, and gained asignal victory. From this place he pressedforward with his own troops and the cavalryforce of General Averill, against Lynchburg;but finding himself in peril, he was obliged to.
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