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Identifier: historyofuniteds05mowr (find matches)
Title: A history of the United States for schools; including a concise account of the discovery of America, the colonization of the land, and the revolutionary war
Year: 1901 (1900s)
Authors: Mowry, William A. (William Augustus), 1829-1917 Mowry, Arthur May, 1862-1900
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Publisher: Boston, New York (etc.) Silver, Burdett and co
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forces of the enemy he could find, and capturing one point afteranother, with constant regard to the cutting off of supplies for theConfederate army. 623. Mobile Bay. — While Generals Grant and Lee were facingeach other in Virginia, and Generals Sherman and Johnston werefighting about Atlanta, the great naval battle of the war occurred inMobile Bay. Admiral Farragut, with a fleet of fourteen wooden andfour iron-clad vessels, attacked Admiral Buchanan, who commandedthree gunboats and one ram. Buchanan was also aided by thethree strongly garrisoned forts, Gaines, Morgan, and Powell, at the
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1865) THE END OF THE WAR. 327 entrance to the harbor. The first disaster was the destruction ofthe Union iron-clad ** Tecumseh, which was sunk by a torpedo.Farragut, with great bravery, ran his flagship Hartford into thethickest of the cannonading, and finally succeeded in capturing theram Tennessee, but not until she had become unmanageable.The other Confederate vessels were destroyed or driven off. Afterbeing shelled for several days. Fort Powell was abandoned, and theother forts surrendered. The contest lasted from August 5th tothe 23d, 1864. CHAPTER LXXVI. THE END OF THE WAR. 624. The Capture of Five Forks. — On March 29th, 1865, Sheridan,with a large body of cavalry and a strong force of infantry, pushedout from Grants left wing with the intention of passing around toLees rear, thereby cutting off his supplies. He succeeded in plant-ing a strong force of infantry behind the Confederates at FiveForks, which was a small place about twelve miles westward fromPetersburg. April ist

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