. Our greater country; being a standard history of the United States from the discovery of the American continent to the present time ... nferior force of Con-federates, under General Albert Sidney John-ston, held Bowling Greenand covered Nashvilleand the Tennessee andthe Cumberland also held Colum-bus and other prominentpoints on the Army of the Poto-mac, under General Mc-Clellan, lay along thePotomac, confrontingthe Confederate army ofNorthern Virginia,whichheld Centreville. A con-DONELSON. siderable force was col- lected at Fortress Monroe, and an army ofabout 10

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. Our greater country; being a standard history of the United States from the discovery of the American continent to the present time ... nferior force of Con-federates, under General Albert Sidney John-ston, held Bowling Greenand covered Nashvilleand the Tennessee andthe Cumberland also held Colum-bus and other prominentpoints on the Army of the Poto-mac, under General Mc-Clellan, lay along thePotomac, confrontingthe Confederate army ofNorthern Virginia,whichheld Centreville. A con-DONELSON. siderable force was col- lected at Fortress Monroe, and an army ofabout 10,000 Confederates, under Magruder,held a strongly fortified line, extending fromYorktown across the Peninsula to the JamesRiver. In addition to these forces, the FederalGovernment had collected a powerful flotillaof steamers and gunboats at Cairo, the junc-tion of the Ohio and Mississippi rivers, toassist in the operations of the Westernarmies. The capture of New Orleans hadbeen resolved upon, and a combined navaland military expedition under CommodoreFarragut and General Butler was assembledfor that purpose; and another expedition.

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