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y that at Washington, in which General Hoke so highly distinguished himself that he was made a major-general for his gallantry. We now come to Grant's great expedition, the object of which was to overwhelm Lee in the upper country and pass on over his body to Richmond, which he expected to enter without further opposition. The Yankee papers had said he was to celebrate the 4th of July in Richmond, and he seems to have entertained that opinion himself. He crossed the Rapid Ann on the 4th of May with an enormous force — reckoned at not less than one hundred and fifty thousand men, in one body. Notwithstanding a great inferiority of numbers, General Lee hastened to attack him. The battle lasted three days, and resulted in our complete success. Grant, whose face was south, and who had proclaimed his determination to fight it out on that line if it took him all summer, was forced to make a move his former line of march, having been utterly unable to drive Lee out of his way. He lo