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Fitzhugh Lee, General Lee, Chapter 13 : campaign in Virginia .-Bristol Station .-mine Run.-Wilderness . (search)
Chapter 13: campaign in Virginia.-Bristol Station.-mine Run.-Wilderness.
For three weeks Lee waited, hoping to be attacked, and then suddenly, on October 9th, put his own army in motion with a design of making a wide circuit around his antagonist's right, to manoeuvre him out of Culpeper to his rear, and force him to deliver battle by intercepting his march toward Washington.
He left a small force of infantry and cavalry to hold his old line on the Rapidan, which the Union cavalry attacke side, with here and there a few narrow roads.
Grant did not manoeuvre, so it suited him in that respect; but his preponderance of numbers could not be made effective, and his men were in each other's way, just as Hooker's had been in this same Wilderness nearer to Chancellorsville.
Artillery was of but little service, mounted cavalry none; no man could command the battle, because no man saw but a few yards around him. Two hundred thousand men were mixed up in a wild, weird struggle, like a hol
Fitzhugh Lee, General Lee, Index. (search)