. Our greater country; being a standard history of the United States from the discovery of the American continent to the present time ... PORTRAITS OF FEDfi:RAL CAVALRY COMMANDERS. 17^ 774 THE CIVIL WAR. On the sixteenth and seventeenth the Con-federates blew up their other works at themouth of the Cape Fear and retreatedtowards Wilmington. The mouth of theriver was now in the possession of the Fed-eral forces, and the last port of the South wasclosed. A number of blockade runners, igno-rant of the capture, ran into the river and fellinto the hands of the victors. Later in themonth, General J.
. Our greater country; being a standard history of the United States from the discovery of the American continent to the present time ... PORTRAITS OF FEDfi:RAL CAVALRY COMMANDERS. 17^ 774 THE CIVIL WAR. On the sixteenth and seventeenth the Con-federates blew up their other works at themouth of the Cape Fear and retreatedtowards Wilmington. The mouth of theriver was now in the possession of the Fed-eral forces, and the last port of the South wasclosed. A number of blockade runners, igno-rant of the capture, ran into the river and fellinto the hands of the victors. Later in themonth, General J. M. Schofield was placedin command of the department of NorthCarolina, and on the twenty-second of Feb-ruary occupied the city of Wilmington, NorthCarolina, with his INTERIOR OF FORT STEADMAN. Sherman, after the capture of Savannah,allowed his army a months rest on the coast,and towards the end of January movednorthward through South Carolina towardsVirginia. His force was sixty thousandstrong and moved in four columns, coveringa front of fifty miles. His route was markedby the same desolation he had spread throughGeorgia. The roads were in a horrible con-dition, and in many places the men wereforced to wade through the icy waters up tothe armpits. Still he pressed on right intothe heart of the Confederacy. On the seven-teenth of February he reached Columbia,South Carolina, having destroyed the rail-road leading north from Charleston. General Hardee, commanding the Con-federate forces at Charleston, apprehensiveof being shut up in that city, which wasutterly unprepared for a siege, evacuatedCharleston and its defences on the seven-teenth of February and retreated northwardto join General Johnston in North next day Charleston was occup
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