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Philip Henry Sheridan, Personal Memoirs of P. H. Sheridan, General, United States Army . 24 0 Browse Search
General Horace Porter, Campaigning with Grant 24 0 Browse Search
Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War. Volume 4. 18 0 Browse Search
The Atlanta (Georgia) Campaign: May 1 - September 8, 1864., Part I: General Report. (ed. Maj. George B. Davis, Mr. Leslie J. Perry, Mr. Joseph W. Kirkley) 16 0 Browse Search
Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain, The Passing of the Armies: The Last Campaign of the Armies. 16 0 Browse Search
Fitzhugh Lee, General Lee 10 0 Browse Search
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 25. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones) 8 0 Browse Search
Colonel Theodore Lyman, With Grant and Meade from the Wilderness to Appomattox (ed. George R. Agassiz) 7 1 Browse Search
General James Longstreet, From Manassas to Appomattox 6 0 Browse Search
John G. Nicolay, A Short Life of Abraham Lincoln, condensed from Nicolay and Hayes' Abraham Lincoln: A History 4 0 Browse Search
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General Horace Porter, Campaigning with Grant, Chapter 29 (search)
the Potomac; while Ord was swinging along toward Burkeville to head off Lee from Danville, to which point it ted that Davis and his cabinet had passed through Burkeville, on their way south, early on the morning of the ed Nottoway Court-house, about ten miles east of Burkeville, where he halted with Ord for a couple of hours. wagons, and had intercepted Lee's advance toward Burkeville; that Lee was in person at Amelia Court-house, etached a point about half-way between Nottoway and Burkeville. The road was skirted by a dense woods on the nosage to Ord to watch the roads running south from Burkeville and Farmville, and then went over to Meade's camps seen that he had abandoned all hope of reaching Burkeville, and was probably heading for Lynchburg. Ord was joined General Grant later, and rode with him to Burkeville, getting there some time after dark. Ord had rally. General Grant broke camp and started from Burkeville early the next morning (the 7th), and moved rapid
General Horace Porter, Campaigning with Grant, Chapter 31 (search)
hich at this time amounted to nearly four millions of dollars a day. When he considered, however, that the railroad was being rapidly put in condition as far as Burkeville, and that he would lose no time by waiting till noon of the next day, he made up his mind to delay his departure. About nine o'clock on the morning of Aprilf noon had now arrived, and General Grant, after shaking hands with all present who were not to accompany him, mounted his horse, and started with his staff for Burkeville. Lee set out for Richmond, and it was felt by all that peace had at last dawned upon the land. The charges were now withdrawn from the guns, the camp-fires weppomattox. The repairers of the railroad had thought more of haste than of solidity of construction, and the special train bearing the general-in-chief from Burkeville to City Point ran off the track three times. These mishaps caused much delay, and instead of reaching City Point that evening, he did not arrive until daylight