Statistics for occurrence #1 of “City Point” in chapter 37, page 608 of Edward Alfred Pollard, The lost cause; a new Southern history of the War of the Confederates ... Drawn from official sources and approved by the most distinguished Confederate leaders.:
...ithdrawn from the breastworks on both sides of the James and massed some distance in the rear, ready to march forward at daylight.
Guns were mounted to cover Grant's communications with his base at City Point , in case the Confederates should take possession of the trenches he had evacuated, and every indication
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