Word: linings
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...ready to make interiors of students' rooms. Remember that Pach Bros. have no equal in this line. Mr. Tupper, manager for the Pachs, has devoted the last fourteen years to Harvard photography and will guarantee all work. Please leave orders at studio. We have no outside agent...
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...
Accordingly Rosecrans moved on Bragg, who awaited him at Murfreesboro, on the Stone River. Each general arranged his line for the battle next day, intending to attack and crush his opponent's right. Rosecrans, however, was so intent upon this purpose that he failed to strengthen his own right, and as Bragg struck his blow first and luckily found this one weak spot, the rebels came within an ace of winning a decisive victory. The Union right was forced back and routed, but Sheridan and Thomas stood firm in the centre and, by magnificent firmness, repelled
...attempted to get control of the Ohio river, but here Grant made his first appearance, and with characteristic promptness, occupied Cairo and Poducale, effectually keeping control of the Ohio and also of the Tennessee and the Cumberland. These two rivers made aneasy point of attack upon the Confederate line, as Grant was soon to show...
...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...