Word: retreating
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...booming of guns on the right of the line announces that an attempt is being made to crush keyes' division. Reinforcements are quickly hurried up, and a sharp all-day fight results in the retiring of the Union forces two miles. Instead of pressing the attack the Confederates retreated. The battles of Glendale and Seven Pines followed shortly without decisive results, other than to protect McClellan's line of communication with the York river. An attack is now made by Lee on Beaver Dam, which is easily repulsed through the failure of Jackson to come to time. McClellan now gives...
...attempt is only partially successful and results in great loss to both sides. In the meantime Magruder has made a feint in front of a porting of McClellan's army, which prevented aid being sent to Porter. The next day Lee remains quiet, only to find that the retreat of McClellan to the James has begun. Lee orders a hot pursuit and almost envelopes the Union army. At Charles City cross roads a desperate attempt is made to break through the Union lines, but fails. Finally, at Malvern Hill, under the shelter of the gunboats, McClellan stops retreating and takes...
...towards Manassas, and gave general orders with a view of massing all the Federal forces at that point or at Centerville, at one of which places he was confident of finding Jackson whom he expected to overpower. By this policy he left the way entirely clear for Jackson to retreat westward and unite with Long street without opposition...
...second tournament of the InterCollegiate Lawn Tennis Association will be played on the grounds of the Retreat in Hartford, under the auspices of the Trinity College Association, beginning to-day at 3 o'clock. The colleges to be represented are Amherst, Brown, Harvard, Trinity, Williams, Wesleyan and Yale-each by a pair and one or two single players...
...Springfield Republican says: "Such a course is weak and censurable. The offending professor might have been discharged if he was guilty of indecency, or the young women might have been allowed to depart if they were prurient; but to issue a wholesale order against womankind is a mean retreat before a parcel of boys...