Young folks' story of our country; a thrilling and accurate history of America, told in the simple language of childhood .. . A RAILROAD BATTERY. wins-ville, Geor-gia, while trying to escape to the sea-coast. He was sentprisoner to Fortress Mon-roe. By the end of May all the Con-fed-er-atearmies in the Southwest had surrendered, and the Civil War was at an CHAPTER XXVIII. FROM LINCOLN TO McKINLEY. In the fall of the year 1862, Pres-i-dent Lin-coln warned the Con-fed-er-ate states that unless they returned to the Un-ion, he would declare everyslave within their borders free on the ist of
Young folks' story of our country; a thrilling and accurate history of America, told in the simple language of childhood .. . A RAILROAD BATTERY. wins-ville, Geor-gia, while trying to escape to the sea-coast. He was sentprisoner to Fortress Mon-roe. By the end of May all the Con-fed-er-atearmies in the Southwest had surrendered, and the Civil War was at an CHAPTER XXVIII. FROM LINCOLN TO McKINLEY. In the fall of the year 1862, Pres-i-dent Lin-coln warned the Con-fed-er-ate states that unless they returned to the Un-ion, he would declare everyslave within their borders free on the ist of Jan-u-a-ry, 1863. True to his wordhe issued the famous E-man-ci-pa-tion Pro-cla-ma-tion. The principalevents of his administration have been told in the chapters devoted to the CivilWar. By his death, Vice-Pres-i-dent An-drew John-son became most important enterprise during Pres-i-dent John-sons administrationwas the laying of the At-lan-tic cable. In 1869, Gen-er-al U-lys-ses S. Grant,the hero of the Rebellion, was elected Pres-i-dent. Shortly before his inaugu-ration both houses of Con-gress agreed to recommend to the legislatures of thedifferent states the passage of the fifteenth amendment to the Constitution inthe following words: the right of the citizens of the U-nit-ed States to voteshall not be denied or abridged by the U-nit-ed
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