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Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 2. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), chapter 6.34 (search)
his men. It would, indeed, have been an amazing conclusion for either army or general to have reached as the lesson of the Campaign from the Wilderness to Cold Harbor. Grant had carried into the Wilderness a well-officered and thoroughly-equipped army of 141,000 men, to which Lee had opposed a bare 50,000. Stanton's Report, 1865-66; General Early's able article in Southern Historical Papers, vol. II, July, 1876; Lee's letter to General David Hunter, U. S. A.; Lee's letter (October 4th, 1867), to Colonel C. A. White; Swinton, Army of the Potomac, p. 413. Despite these odds, Lee had four times forced his antagonist to change that line of operations on which he emphatically declared he proposed to fight it out if it took all summer. He had sent him reeling and dripping with blood from the jungles of the Wilderness, though foiled himself of decisive victory by a capricious fortune, which struck down his trusted lieutenant in the very act of dealing the blow, which his chief,