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Thomas C. DeLeon, Four years in Rebel capitals: an inside view of life in the southern confederacy, from birth to death. 3 1 Browse Search
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Thomas C. DeLeon, Four years in Rebel capitals: an inside view of life in the southern confederacy, from birth to death., chapter 37 (search)
,000 men with scarcely one-fifth their number; not exceeding 63,000! Some time after the notes were made, from which these figures are condensed, two articles on Grant's campaign appeared in print-one in the New York World, the other, by Mr. Hugh Pleasants, in The land we love magazine. Writing from diametrically opposite standpoints, with data gathered from opposing sources, Mr. Pleasants and the World very nearly agree in their figuring; and it was gratifying to this author to find that boMr. Pleasants and the World very nearly agree in their figuring; and it was gratifying to this author to find that both corroborated the above estimates to within very inconsiderable numbers. Later historical papers have not materially changed them; save, perhaps, some southern claims, still further to reduce Lee's army. While Grant was engaged in his pertinacious failures to flank Lee, General Sheridan-whose fame as a cavalry leader was already in the mouths of men in such pet names as Little Phil and Cavalry Sheridan --made a raid of considerable proportions toward Richmond. Flanking Lee upon the righ