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of his position after he had failed to do it by direct attacks. One grand attack along our whole line he attempted in November, soon after the Presidential election, the success of Lincoln in which the Yankees fondly believes would so terrify the Confederates that they would lay down their arms at their bidding. He failed, and was disastrously repulsed everywhere. Nor need we speak of the capture of Fort Harrison, or the AlmsHouse, or Darbytown, or of Beast Butler and his grand canal at Dutch gap. It is time to turn our eyes elsewhere. The campaign of Sherman, early in the spring, from Vicksburg to the Alabama line, with the purpose of taking Mobile and Selma, having failed, that officer was transferred to Chattanooga to take command there. He began to move against General Johnston early in June That officer fell back from one position to another until he had reached Atlanta, fighting on the retreat several severe battles, in which, while he lost only nine thousand men, he in