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Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 2. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), chapter 6.34 (search)
e Federal loss above twenty-five hundred. --after which succeeded a period of quiet, broken by several minor affairs brought on by continuous extension of the Federal left. The Presidential election in the North was now near at hand, Mr. Edward Lee Childe, usually well-informed, makes a curious blunder on this point. He says: Grant y tenait d'autant plus que l'election presidentielle approchait, et que ses chances comme candidat augmenterait si le succes le designait a l'admiration de ses concitoyens. --Le General Lee, Sa Vie et ses Campagnes, p. 327. Following Swinton (A. P., p. 543), he represents Lee as present on the field. At the time of the action, Lee was north of the James. Nor was Hill on the field, as Swinton and Childe represent. Both largely overstate the numbers concentrated on the Confederate side during the night. and before settling down into winter-quarters, General Grant determined to make one more vigorous effort to turn Lee's right, seize the Southside roa