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Browsing named entities in Horace Greeley, The American Conflict: A History of the Great Rebellion in the United States of America, 1860-65: its Causes, Incidents, and Results: Intended to exhibit especially its moral and political phases with the drift and progress of American opinion respecting human slavery from 1776 to the close of the War for the Union. Volume II.. You can also browse the collection for Beers or search for Beers in all documents.
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Horace Greeley, The American Conflict: A History of the Great Rebellion in the United States of America, 1860-65: its Causes, Incidents, and Results: Intended to exhibit especially its moral and political phases with the drift and progress of American opinion respecting human slavery from 1776 to the close of the War for the Union. Volume II., chapter 26 (search)
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West Virginia and North of the Rapidan in 1864.
Sam Jones captures Beers at Jonesville
Rosser takes Petersburg
Averill hits him at Springfield
Sigel's defeat at Newmarket
Averill worsted at Wytheville
Crook's fight near Dublin Station
Hunter's victory at Piedmont
he takes Staunton, and advances to Lynchburg
retreats across the Alleghauies
Early chases Sigel out of Virginia
Wallace beaten on the Monocacy
Early threatens Washington
Wright repulsed by Early
Avery worss.
Before Gen. Grant had been placed in chief command, there had been several collisions in western and northern Virginia.
The first occurred
Jan. 3, 1864. at Jonesville, in the extreme west of old Virginia, near Cumberland gap, held by Maj. Beers with 300 Illinoisans and 3 guns, who were surrounded, surprised, and captured by Sam. Jones, after a smart contest, in which our loss was 60.
The excuse for holding an outpost thus exposed was the necessity of collecting forage for our larger