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ssful, this movement resulted in an entire failure. General Meade found Lee's army posted behind Mine Run, and ready to receive an attack whenever he was disposed to make it. Meade declared, it is related, that he could carry the position with a loss of thirty thousand men; but, as that idea was frightful, there seemed nothing to do but retreat. Life of General R. E. Lee, by J. E. Cooke. Lee had inaugurated that system of breastworks which did him good service in his long campaign with General Grant. When the troops were halted in a wood, the men felled the large trees, heavy logs were dragged without loss of time to the prescribed line, where they were piled upon one another in double walls, which were filled in rapidly with earth; in a short space of time, therefore, defenses which would turn a cannon shot were often constructed. In front, for some distance, the felled timber made a kind of abatis. As General Meade did not attack, General Lee, on the night of December 1st, dete

d advance of Sheridan repulsed at Richmond Stuart Resists Sheridan Stuart's death remarks on Grant's plan of campaign movement of General Butler Drewry's Bluff battle there campaign of Grant Grant in Virginia. Both the Army of Northern Virginia and the army under General Meade remained in a state of comparative inaction during the months of January and February, 1864. On February 26, 186o Richmond. After the battle of the Wilderness on May 4th and 5th, as hereafter narrated, General Grant moved his army toward Spotsylvania Court House, and General Lee made a corresponding movemenn, after I had left his bedside, told me he was bleeding inwardly, and that the end was near. Grant's plan of campaign, as now revealed to us, was to continue his movement against Lee's army, and , together with a detachment from General Lee's army, that he should join General Lee, overwhelm Grant, and march to Washington. I knew that General Lee was then confronting an army vastly superior

Chapter 46: General Grant assumes command in Virginia positions of the armies plans of campaign open to Grant's choice the Rapidan crossed battle of the Wilderness danger of Lee the enemy driven back Longstreet wounded results oGrant's choice the Rapidan crossed battle of the Wilderness danger of Lee the enemy driven back Longstreet wounded results of the contest rapid flank movement of Grant another contest Grant's Reenforcements Hanover Junction the enemy Moves in direction of Bowling Green battle at Cold harbor Frightful slaughter the enemy's soldiers decline to renew the assault wheGrant another contest Grant's Reenforcements Hanover Junction the enemy Moves in direction of Bowling Green battle at Cold harbor Frightful slaughter the enemy's soldiers decline to renew the assault when ordered strength of respective armies General Pemberton the enemy crosses the James siege of Petersburg begun. It was in March, 1864, that Major General Ulysses S. Grant, having been appointed lieutenant general, assumed command of the armiGrant's Reenforcements Hanover Junction the enemy Moves in direction of Bowling Green battle at Cold harbor Frightful slaughter the enemy's soldiers decline to renew the assault when ordered strength of respective armies General Pemberton the enemy crosses the James siege of Petersburg begun. It was in March, 1864, that Major General Ulysses S. Grant, having been appointed lieutenant general, assumed command of the armies of the United States. He subsequently proceeded to Culpeper and assumed personal command of the Army of the Potomac, although nominally that army remained under the command of General Meade. Reenforcements were gathered from every military depa

eupon General Polk proposed an exchange to General Grant, who replied on October 14th: I can, osfactory basis. The day that I left there General Grant arrived. General Butler says he communicablished by the cartel. On the next day General Grant replied: I could not of a right acceptgress of negotiations. In a dispatch from General Grant to General Butler, dated City Point, Augusd, and special exchanges, should go on. General Grant visited Fortress Monroe on April 1st, beinhing was done; but after conversation with General Grant, in reply to the proposition of Mr. Ould tfederate authorities took the same view as General Grant, believing that an exchange would defeat Sity on the government at Washington and on General Grant. The obstacles thus thrown in the way werh General Lee, to make an arrangement with General Grant for the exchange of all the prisoners heldr respective commands, and as many more as General Grant could add in response to all held by the C[5 more...]

d open the way to official negotiations, etc. They had crossed our lines through a letter of General Grant to Colonel Ould, commissioner for the exchange of prisoners. The Secretary of State, Benjas application for permission to visit Richmond, which had been sent from the headquarters of General Grant's army, he returned to Washington and there received the reply which had been made to his ap done without the intervention of the politicians. He therefore suggested that Generals Lee and Grant might enter into an arrangement by which hostilities would be suspended, and a way paved for theulate, were only those of subjugation. When General Buckner, on February 16, 1862, asked of General Grant to appoint commissioners to agree upon terms of capitulation, he replied: No terms, exce surrender, can be accepted. When General Lee asked the same question, on April 9, 1865, General Grant replied: The terms upon which peace can be had are well understood. By the South laying

e-de-camp failure of Johnston's projected attack at Fayetteville affair at Kinston cavalry exploits General Johnston Withdraws to Smithfield encounter at Averysboro battles of Bentonville Union of Sherman's and Schofield's forces Johnston's retreat to Raleigh. After the evacuation of Savannah by General Hardee, it soon became known that General Sherman was making preparations to march northward through the Carolinas with the supposed purpose of uniting his forces with those of General Grant before Richmond. General Hardee, having left detachments at proper points to defend the approaches to Charleston and Augusta, Georgia, withdrew the rest of his command to the first-named city. General Wheeler's cavalry held all the roads northward, and, by felling trees and burning bridges, obstructed considerably the enemy's advance, which in the early part of January was still further impeded by the heavy rains which had swollen the rivers and creeks far beyond their usual width and

. Fort Steadman was upon the main line of General Grant's works, and flanked on either side by a l, which formed the obstruction in front of General Grant's lines at Fort Steadman and along the flae rear, and upon the flank of the left wing of Grant's army, which was to be broken to pieces by a ry to do more than sit quietly waiting for General Grant to move upon our right, while each day wasreet, and that both Hancock and Ord had joined Grant, to swell his forces by two corps before our troops returned to join Lee. Grant, thus strengthened, made a more determined movement to gain the r unsettled question of time was now solved. Grant's massive columns, advancing on right, left, a reference to the map it will be seen that General Grant, starting from the south side of the Appomurrender of his army which, in his note to General Grant of the previous day, he had said he did noam determined to maintain to the last. General Grant replied: I have no idea of proposing d[13 more...]