The new Larned History for ready reference, reading and research; the actual words of the world's best historians biographers and specialists; a complete system of history for all uses, extending to all countries and subjects and representing the better and newer literature of history . s, having been rein-forced, attempted to dislodge him by an assaultupon his works, October 3d, but failed. GeneralLee had, meanwhile, proceeded southward, andhad joined Floyd and Wise, assuming command ofthe entire force of about twenty thousand men. Hedid not, however, attempt to meet Rosecrans,although his ar
The new Larned History for ready reference, reading and research; the actual words of the world's best historians biographers and specialists; a complete system of history for all uses, extending to all countries and subjects and representing the better and newer literature of history . s, having been rein-forced, attempted to dislodge him by an assaultupon his works, October 3d, but failed. GeneralLee had, meanwhile, proceeded southward, andhad joined Floyd and Wise, assuming command ofthe entire force of about twenty thousand men. Hedid not, however, attempt to meet Rosecrans,although his army was much superior in point ofnumbers to the Federal force. He sent a smalldetachment across New River to Chapmanville,where, on the 25th of September, they were sur-prised and routed by a small body of addition to these discouragements in the field,General Lee had to deal with the quarrel betweenFloyd and Wise, which was presently appealed toRichmond, with the result that Wise was with-drawn from his command. Lee himself was re-called a little later, and sent to South Carolina, anda part of the army about Lewisburg was marchedinto the Shenandoah Valley, to reinforce GeneralStonewall Jackson at Winchester. Floyd madeone more effort to regain the Kanawha Valley, but. PHILIP HENRY SHERIDAN ULYSSES SIMPSON GRANT WILLIAM TECUMSEH SHERMAN were repulsed with considerable loss, and beforeMcCooks brigade could come to their assistance,darkness intervened, and the battle was the night, Floyd, who had only about twothousand men, and had asked aid from Wise invain, sHpped away. He retired to Sewells Moun-tain and took up a strong position there. Rose-crans did not, however, follow. His troops weretired out by the hundred miles march from Clarks-burg, and their exertions in the battle. He had. . cleared the Kanawha Valley, and seemed tofeel that he had accomplished all that was prac-ticable or necessary at the moment. So soon asGeneral Lee learned of Rosecran
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