Identifier: grandestcenturyi00nort (find matches)
Title: Grandest century in the world's history; containing a full and graphic account of the marvelous achievements of one hundred years, including great battles and conquests; the rise and fall of nations; wonderful growth and progress of the United States ... etc., etc
Year: 1900 (1900s)
Authors: Northrop, Henry Davenport, 1836-1909
Subjects: Nineteenth century
Publisher: Philadelphia, Pa., National publishing co
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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th the governments andwith persons of distinction. The per-sons selected for this delicate and im-portant trust were Archbishop Hughes,of New York, and Mr. Thurlow Weed.They sailed in November, and renderedvery valuable service, Mr. Weed in Eng-land, and the Archbishop in France. War of Vast Magnitude. At the beginning of 1862 the war hadassumed vast proportions. The num-ber of men under arms on both sideswas nearly a million. The Confederatesheld possession of the Mississippi riverfrom the Gulf of Mexico to the southernboundary of Kentucky, and occupied achain of strong positions extendingthence through Tennessee and Ken-tucky to the southwestern corner ofVirginia. Between the Alleghanies andthe Blue Ridge was the fertile Shenan-doah Valley, often disputed by botharmies. At the east the Confederates wereposted in great force between the Poto-mac and the Rappahannock. Now thatDelaware, Maryland, Kentucky andMissouri had been saved to the Union,it was certain that the battle v.^ould be
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ARREST OF MASON AND ^TJDELI. ON THE BRITISH STEAMER TRENT 76 THE GREAT CIVIIv WAR. 77 fought out in the territory to the southof them. The plan of the Federal au-thorities was to open the Mississippiand penetrate the Confederate line atthe west, while at the same timeMcClellan attacked Richmond, and aland and naval force continued the pro-cess of capturing the southern ports onthe Atlantic coast. Simon Cameron, who had been Secre-tary of War, resigned January 20, 1862,and was succeeded by Edwin M. Stan-ton. All the Federal armies were tomove simultaneously on the 22d of Feb-ruary, Washingtons birthday, but thisorder could not be strictly carried out. Grant in the West. The first advance was made in theWest. General Grant had entered Ken-tucky from Illinois, and succeeded insecuring the mouths of the Tennesseeand Cumberland rivers, two streamswhich were to serve as military high-ways by which the Federal armies wereto penetrate into the heart of the Con-federacy. The chief Confederate

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