...uld probably number 500,000 men. That these men were brave is proved by the terrible casualties of the battles which they fought. The struggle from May 5 to May 12, 1864; at the Widerness and Spotsylvania , which should really be called one battle, was a good index of the sanguinary character of the conflict. The losses of Grant's army in that conflict, as reported in Scribner's statistical record,...