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William Swinton, Campaigns of the Army of the Potomac, chapter 11 (search)
William Swinton, Campaigns of the Army of the Potomac, chapter 12 (search)
XII the siege of Petersburg.
June, 1864-march, 1865.
I. The change of base.
The determination of General Grant to transfer the army, by a flank march, to the south side of the James River, involved considerations of a wholly different order from those concerned in the repeated turning movements which he had made to dislodge Lee from the intrenched positions held by him. These were simply manoeuvres of grand tactics, delicate indeed in their nature, but they did not carry the army away e 28th.—Private Letter from General Hancock. Next morning the whole force returned to the lines before Petersburg.
New movement to the left.—From this time forward the operations in front of Petersburg and Richmond, until the spring campaign of 1865, were mainly confined to the defence and extension of the lines, which were pushed westward as far as Hatcher's Run.
The extension of the lines was preceded by a new movement to the left, which was very similar, in its general aspects to that abo