The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1879-12-12

several weeks Of hard work. Grant nov
advanced directly on VicksbuIg, which
fell after siege OF fortyseYen days, JULY
4th, 1858. Port Hudson surrendered soot
alter, "and thus the great river was opet
from It's source to the sea, and the Con
tederacY cut In twain"
In the tirst campaign toward the capturC
Of Richmond, the Union troops were de-
feated at Bull Run, July 2lst, 1851, and
driven In disorder TO Washington. The
next attempt 10 take II was early In 1862,
when Gen. Mcclellan marched his army
10 within SIX miles Of Richmond, and then
! were fought the Seven days battles Of
the Peninsula" In the greatest Of which,
Malvern Hill, July LIST, the Confederates
were repulsed. Gen. Banks was ordered
70 help Mcclellan, and the battles Of Cedar
Mountain and Bull Run followed. But
finally Mcclellan drew off his army with.
out accomplishing anything. Lee then
crossed over into Maryland, and the great
battle OF Antietam was fought, in
which Lee was defeated and forced
back into Virginia. General Burn.
side now took command OF the army
OF the Potomac, crossed the river in front
Of and attempted TO take Fredericksburg,
but was defeated with heavy loss, The
next great battle was that OF Chancenors-
vile, In which the Union troops were dc.
ieated. The next campaign was the tinal
one. ga March II, 1854, Gen. U. y.
Grant was appointed Lietenant General
Of all The armies Of the United States, and
he Immediately began two great move.
ments. The opening OF the Mississippi
had severed the confederacy once, and he
determined TO sever It again. For that
purpose Gen. ". 7. Sherman started from
Chattanooga and marched to Atlanta and |
from there to the sea; he thus not only |
severed u again, but enabled Grant to
capture Richmond, by drawing the troops
away from It to oppose his march. Grant
now Advanced on Richmond, and fought
the battle Of 1.-THE Wilderness" Gold
Harbor and Spottsylvania, losing seventy
thousand men in a few days. On April
LIST, 1865, Sheridan, Warren and Humph.
reys fought the battle OF Five Forks, turn.
ing Lees flank; the next day he evacuated
and on the third 1t was occu.
pied by the Union troops. Lee retreated.
but was soon overtaken, and on the 9th OF
April, 1855, he surrendered his army TO
Grant at Appomattox Court House. The
other armies OF the ConfederaCy surrend.
cred soon alter, and the war was at close.
The Contederates made but few agrees.
we movements during the war, and when.
ever they did they were generally de-
Ieated. In Lees first invasion OF Mary.
and he was defeated at Antietam, and In
his second, when he advanced into Penn.
'ylvania, he was defeated in the great bat
lie OF Gettysburg, the greatest OF the war.
Ought July lst, I'd and Sd, 1868. In this
var the first iron clad vessels were used.
The fist was built by the Coniederates.
he celebrated Merrimac, and OF course
he Union had to build something
o oppose it. This was the Monitor.
which defeated the MerrimaC after
bard fought battle OF several hours.
IN the 22nd Of September, 1868,
President Lincoln issued his famous
Proclamation, setting free
III slaves outside OF the Union lines.
The National debt at the close OF the !
var amounted to $2,749, 40, 745. During i
he last year it'had cost 100000 day.
+ also cost over 100000 lives on both
ides. But It had destroyed slavery. And
t established that the United States can
lot be divided, but must be lone and in ,
eparable." II has been shown by recent i
tatistics that the South is in much more !
lourishing condition than before the war, !
Y indeed we may say ever before. The s
I'D system OF slavery is abolished, and {
PLANTERS now have 10 hire men to work
heir plantations, and, consequently they !
ZEE that the work is well done. There is 5
more cotton and tobacco raised in the !
'outh than ever before. There is also a !
much better feeling existing between the :
Worth and the South than for thirty years !
'efore the war, because the old cause of i
slavery, is removed.