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...forces of the Union and of the Confederacy were opposing each other in three parts of the South, in Virginia, on the Mississippi, and in Tennessee. It is with the operations in this latter place that the subject treated. Rosecrans commanded the Union army of the Cumberland. Opposed to him was General Bragg, with 50,000 Confederates. The object towards which the army under Rosecrans was moving was Chattanooga. This city, a natural fortress, was situated at the base of the mountains in East Tennessee. Here converged all the railway lines which made the easy movements of troops from...
...says. He has no time to take a book home, as it were, and make it part of himself. He never 'travels over the mind' of a great author till he becomes as familiar with its beauties and its nooks, its heights, its levels, and its denths, as a Cumberland shepherd with the mountains and valleys round about his home. He never looks upon his books as his friends. It is to his head, and not to his heart, that he wishes to take them; and he only cares to keep them there till they have served their purpose...
...first excursion of the section in N. H. IV. will take place next Saturday, and will probably be to Cumberland, in the vicinity of Wonsocket, R. I., where there is a remarkable deposit of iron...
Three coal trains on the Georges Creek and Cumberland road were wrecked yesterday, and seven employes killed, by running off an embankment...
...number of Harvard instructors have taken part in the exhibitions given by Mr. Stuart Cumberland at Tremont Temple during the past week...