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is a strategist and a tactician.--No man can associate with the "little villain" without catching the Solferino fever. This man has discovered that Gen. Grant, from the moment he entered upon this campaign, had determined to make the Southside the scene of his future operations, and, of course, that when he said he was determined "to fight it out on this line if it took him all summer," he was perpetrating one of those grave jokes of which we have had so many examples in his dispatches to Stanton. Apparently anticipating the very natural inquiry why, if such were the fact, he did not at once proceed to that quarter by water, seeing that he could have done so without losing a man, he is ready with an answer. Oh, Grant wanted to try all plans — he tried the straight road and found that would not do, and so he took a circumbendibus, and came over here, where he meant to come at first. In this little experiment, which cost him a trifle of 100,000 men, he had that object constantly in