. Story of the Confederate States; or, History of the war for southern independence, embracing a brief but comprehensive sketch of the early settlement of the country, trouble with the Indians, the French, revolutionary and Mexican wars .. . even to flank them onthe south; the luckless conclusion of Wilsons andKautzs raid to Staunton River; Sheridans failure tounite with Hunter in Lees rear; Sturgiss disastrousdefeat by Forrest near Guntown; Hunters failure tocarry Lynchburg and eccentric line of retreat; Sher-mans bloody repulse atKennesaw, and the compelledslowness of his advance on Atlanta;
. Story of the Confederate States; or, History of the war for southern independence, embracing a brief but comprehensive sketch of the early settlement of the country, trouble with the Indians, the French, revolutionary and Mexican wars .. . even to flank them onthe south; the luckless conclusion of Wilsons andKautzs raid to Staunton River; Sheridans failure tounite with Hunter in Lees rear; Sturgiss disastrousdefeat by Forrest near Guntown; Hunters failure tocarry Lynchburg and eccentric line of retreat; Sher-mans bloody repulse atKennesaw, and the compelledslowness of his advance on Atlanta; Earlys unresistedswoop down the Valley into Maryland, his defeat ofWallace at the Monocacy, and his unpunished demon-stration against the defences of Washington itself; theraids of his troopers up to the suburbs of Baltimore,on the Philadelphia railroad, and even up into Penn-sylvania, burning Chambersburg and alarming evenPittsburg; and finally the bloody, wo^etched fiasco ofthe Mine explosion before Petersburg; these and other ^ Swinton says that after the battle of Cold Harbor Grants army,shaken in its structure, its valor quenched in blood and thousands ofits ablest officers killed or wounded, was the Army of the Potomac CEv!-::—:. c:::j::j.; z. :.:^cli:llan. 358 ] Georgia Campaign. 359 reverses relieved by a few and unimpressive triumphs,rendered tlie mid-summer of 1864 one of the gloomiestseasons of our great struggle for the upholders of thenational cause. Speaking about the financial condi-tion during this period, when it took nearly three dol-lars of currency to purchase one of gold, the samewriter says: By the pecuniary gauge thus afforded,it appears that the very darkest hours of our contest—those in which our loyal people most profoundly des-paired of a successful issue—were those of July andAugust, 1864; following Grants repulse from ColdHarbor, the Mine explosion before Petersburg, andduring Earlys unpunished incursion into Maryland,and his cavalry
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