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Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 3., Chapter 11: advance of the Army of the Potomac on Richmond. (search)
, 303. the Union Army out of the Wilderness, 304. skirmishes near Spottsylvania Court House, 305. battle of Spottsylvania Court House, 306, 307, 308. character of the fighting in that battle, 309. effects of these battles in Virginia, 310. Grant again attempts to flank Lee's Army, 311. Sheridan's raid in Lee's rear, 312. events in West Virginia, 313. Sigel in the Shenandoah Valley, 314. Hunter's expedition to Lynchburg, 315. the ravages of War, 316. On the evening of the 3d of May, 1864, the Army of the Potomac was ready to advance, and at midnight it moved toward the Rapid Anna in two columns, the right from near Culpepper Court-House, and the left from Stevensburg. The right was composed of the corps of Warren (Fifth) and Sedgwick (Sixth); and the left, of the Second, under Hancock. The right was led by Warren, preceded by Wilson's cavalry division, and, on the morning of the 4th, crossed the Rapid Anna at Germania Ford, followed, during the forenoon, by Sedgwick's