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Chapter 9
Grant crosses the North Anna
Sheridan Returns from his raid
meeting between Grant and Burnside
destroying a Railroad
the enemy reinforced
a Female Oddity
Grant Recrosses the North Anna
Hancock's corps had been fighting and marching almost continuously for over a week, both day and night, and the halt on May 22 was made to give a much-needed rest.
It was a curious study to watch the effect which the constant exposure to fire had produced upon the nervous system of the troops.
Their nerves had become so sensitive that the men would start at the slightest sound, and dodge at the flight of a bird or the sight of a pebble tossed past them.
One of their amusements in camp at that time was to throw stones and chips past one another's heads, and raise a laugh at the active dodging and bending the body low, or jackknifing, as the men called it. This did not indicate any loss of courage; it was merely an effect produced by a temporary physical condition which th