. The great American book of biography . ners, 1000muskets, and other stores. But victories alternated, for now General SterlingPrice surrounded and captured the Unionist Colonel Mulligan and his Irishbrigade of 27S0, at Lexington, Mo. Worse, however, than this was the nearannihilation, October 21st, of a Unionist force of 1700 under General C. P. Stoneand Colonel E. D. Baker at Balls Bluff The noble Baker and 300 of the men 18 ^oo STORY OF THE CIVIL WAR. were slain and over 500 taken prisoners. Ten days later Commodore S. , aided by General T. W. Sherman with 10,000 men, reduced theCo
. The great American book of biography . ners, 1000muskets, and other stores. But victories alternated, for now General SterlingPrice surrounded and captured the Unionist Colonel Mulligan and his Irishbrigade of 27S0, at Lexington, Mo. Worse, however, than this was the nearannihilation, October 21st, of a Unionist force of 1700 under General C. P. Stoneand Colonel E. D. Baker at Balls Bluff The noble Baker and 300 of the men 18 ^oo STORY OF THE CIVIL WAR. were slain and over 500 taken prisoners. Ten days later Commodore S. , aided by General T. W. Sherman with 10,000 men, reduced theConfederate forts on Hilton Head and Phillips Island and seized the adjacentSea Islands. General Fremont, unable to find and engage the ConfederateGeneral Price in the West, was relieved of his command of 30,000 men ; butGeneral U. S. Grant, by capturing the Confederate camp at Belmont, Mo.,checked the advance of General Jeff. Thompson. On the next day, November8th, occurred a memorable event which imperiled the peaceful relations between. BATTLE OK PITTSBURG LANDING. the United States and Great Britain. Captain Wilkes of the United Statesfrigate, San Jacinto, compelled the British mail steamer, Trent, to give up twoof her passengers, the Confederate Commissioners, Mason and Slidell, who wereon their way respectively to England and France in the interest of the foreign war might have resulted had not Mr. William H. Seward, the astuteSecretary of State, prompdy disavowed the act and returned the Commissionersto Eno-lish keeping. General E. O. C. Ord, commanding the Third PennsylvaniaBrigade, gained a victory on December 20th at Dranesville over the Confederate FALL OF FORT DO NELSON. 301 brigade of General J. E. B. Stuart, who lost 230 soldiers, and during the samemonth General Pope reported the capture of 2500 prisoners in Central Missouri,with the loss of only 100 men ; but 1000 of these were taken by Colonel Jeff by surprising the Confederate camp at Milford. Th
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