The household history of the United States and its people, for young Americans . 338 HISTORY OF THE UXITED STATES. Explosion of themine. Attack re-pulsed. held these frowning lines, face to face, for nine months,until within a few days of the close of the war. Soon after the siege began, a mine was dug fromthe trenches of the Union army under an angle ofthe Confederate works. By this mine a part of theworks was blown up on the 30th of July. An attack. was made immediately after, but it was badly man-aged, and only resulted in the loss of a great manyUnion marches In all the yca
The household history of the United States and its people, for young Americans . 338 HISTORY OF THE UXITED STATES. Explosion of themine. Attack re-pulsed. held these frowning lines, face to face, for nine months,until within a few days of the close of the war. Soon after the siege began, a mine was dug fromthe trenches of the Union army under an angle ofthe Confederate works. By this mine a part of theworks was blown up on the 30th of July. An attack. was made immediately after, but it was badly man-aged, and only resulted in the loss of a great manyUnion marches In all the ycars of the war there had been a smaller and tries to take campaign Carried on in the Valley of Virginia. This fer- Lynchburg. .,,,,., r ^ • r^ tile valley lies between two ranges 01 mountains. Itsnorthern end reaches the Potomac not very far awayfrom Washington. In this valley the Confederate gen- FROM THE TO PETERSBURG. -. ^q eral Breckinridge defeated General Sigel at New Mar-ket on the 15th of Mav, 1864. General Hunter, whotook command of the Union troops, defeated the Confed-erate general Iniboden at Piedmont twenty days , with eighteen thousand men, pushed for Lynch-burg, which was a place of the greatest destroyed railroads and worked much damage, butLynchburg was re-enforced in time to save it. Findinghis retieat down the Valle\ cut off, Hunter saved hisstarving army by making his way into the Kana
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