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actics. We think it may be safely asserted that, since war first became known to mankind, no General ever sacrificed his men so recklessly, so remorselessly, and to so little purpose, as General Grant. He started from his camp on the North side of the Rappahannock, little more than a month ago, with 130,000 men. He has been reinforced, according to the statements of his friends, by more than 80,000 since that time, viz.: Stanton says he sent him 25,000 veterans after the battle of the 12th May; Butler has sent him 20,000, and prisoners say he has received 40,000 from Ohio and other sources, making a total of 85,000. Yet his army, at this day, in the opinion of those best qualified to judge, does not greatly exceed 100,000 men, and is, certainly, greatly inferior in numbers to what it was when he started on his crusade. He lost 75,000 in Spotsylvania, and his losses in Hanover cannot have fallen very far short of 25,000.--Thus he has sacrificed 100,000 men, the flower not only o