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William Swinton, Campaigns of the Army of the Potomac, chapter 12 (search)
appear, it was soon afterwards seized and held, and the left flank of the army extended to insure its tenure. The main lines of supply by the Southside and the Danville roads were, however, well covered by Lee's army. The distance from the position of the army before Petersburg to the nearest point at which the Southside Railroad could be struck is from ten to fifteen miles, and to Burkesville—which, as the junction of the Southside and the Danville roads, is the strategic key to all the Confederate communications of Petersburg and Richmond—the distance is near forty miles. These, therefore, could not be reached by any extension of the Union intrenched to be able long to hold the Weldon Railroad; and four days after his arrival, he sent a warning to the Richmond authorities to prepare to supply his army by the Danville line alone. The reply was, that they hoped he would do all he could to hold the Weldon road. To this he answered, that of course he would do all he could to ho
William Swinton, Campaigns of the Army of the Potomac, chapter 13 (search)
nder was, moreover, in a trying dilemma: in order to keep open the Danville line, by which a junction of the forces of Lee and Johnston might ich he was to strike southward through Virginia to the Westward of Danville and join Sherman. But while awaiting at Charlottesville the arrivtire to an interior line, either in the direction of Lynchburg or Danville, where uniting with the forces of Johnston he might, by maintaininchmond and effecting a junction with the forces of Johnston on the Danville line. Preparations for the intended movement were begun early in omattox, parallel with the Southside Railroad, and westward to the Danville line. But the Fifth Union Corps was already at Sutherland's Statisary to cross that stream at Goode's bridge in order to strike the Danville road at Amelia Courthouse, thirty-eight miles west of Richmond an commissary and quartermasters' stores should be sent forward from Danville to Amelia Courthouse, there to await the arrival of his columns.