Statistics for occurrence #1 of “Early” in chapter 3, page 132 of Adam Badeau, Military history of Ulysses S. Grant from April 1861 to April 1865. Volume 3:
...the investment towards the Southside road, while annoying and exhausting the enemy by menaces and attacks at various points, preventing the possibility of Lee's detaching in support of either Hood or Early , and himself waiting patiently till the moment should come to strike a blow like those he had dealt earlier in the war.
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