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After their defeat at Shiloh, the Confederates gave up their aggressive policy entirely in the face of the overwhelming Union forces. Their new line of defense extended from Memphis and Corinth east of Chattanooga...
Grant immediately went on with his triumphs and Rosecrans, under him, won such successes at Iuka and Corinth, that he supersceded Buell. The latter had lost his position, a victim to misfortune and unjust treatment at the hands of Halleck...
...advance upon Corinth, which, by its position as a railroad centre, was a vital point in the line to which Johnston bad retreated, Grant took up a position at Pittsburg Landing, on the Tennessee. Here he awaited the arrival of Buell with strong re-enforcements. The position was easy to defend, and favored further advance. Johnson saw the opportunity and tried to surprise Grant on April 5. But he arrived late at night and had to wait till morning. At day-break he made a furious attack, massing 40,000 men on the Union left, the only exposed point. Again...
...Morgan then briefly sketched the story of Medea. How she helped Jason to fulfil his tasks, and secure the golden fleece; how she at length became his wife, and how he deserted her to marry the daughter of the king of Corinth, and Medea's revenge for her wrongs. The story served as a thread to bind together and give connection to the pictures...
...almost entire freedom from restraint at Harvard, and the prestige of Harvard connections, have attracted a large number of social and worldly papillons from New York and Chicago society, whose lavish expenditures and dissolute living are no torious. Nevertheless, Cambridge is not a Capua or a Corinth, as Aleck Quest seems to paint it. Per contry, the moral tone of the students as a whole will bear comparison with that of any other body of students, with that of any other body of students, while in intellectual matters the ferment of thought and study is far more fruitful and vigorous...