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The War News.
The storm of battle which raged so furiously last week in the immediate vicinity of Richmond has been succeeded by a comparative calm, and matters are now almost as quiet as when the contending armies were seventy miles away.
Grant has evidently become tired of "butting" against the rebel fortifications, and what he failed to effect by brute force he now essays to accomplish by strategy.
Consequently we find him stealthily moving away from our front, and sliding down the so nes yesterday has given rise to the belief that the Yankees were engaged in burying their dead, a privilege which they asked of General Lee under a flag of truce.
Notwithstanding the generally received opinion to the contrary, it may be that Grant will again offer battle on the memorable scene of Cold Harbor.
He measured strength with the Confederates there last week, and failed, it is true; but as it amounted to only a check, with a heavy loss of his numbers, he had the hardihood to tele
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Grant's Tactics.
We think it may be safely asserted that, since war first became known to mankind, no Gen , so remorselessly, and to so little purpose, as General Grant.
He started from his camp on the North side of his left and get in rear without farther fighting.
Grant in the meantime has been brought up before McClellan
They desire to see this war brought to an end, and Grant is the very man to do it. Had the distance between R journey with not more than one hundred men.
If Grant is whipped on land, however, he is always victorious f Yankeedom, we do not see why it should not satisfy Grant, since the applause of those interesting people is all that he aspires to. Let Grant sit down and telegraph a big victory every day for a week, and then the captur he will be without a competitor.
Gen. Lee can beat Grant in the field, but he is no match for him in telegraphing.
Grant may lie as much as he pleases.
Gen. Lee will not contradict him. He will only flog him the next t