ve landed his army without the loss of single life; and that for this enormous sacrifice no compensating advantages.
Every time he attacked Lee he was whipped.
That you may see that I have not exaggerated Grant's losses, let me clip for you, from the radical Republican organ, the New Nation, published in New York, the following estimate of losses previous to the later operations on the Chickahominy.
The editor, Gen Cluseret, an old French officer, writing about the attack on Lee on the 4th of June, says:
We lost seventy-five hundred men, and to his report the adjutant general adds the consolatory words that he hopes our losses will not exceed these figures.
By adding this loss as the seventy-five thousand men set down in previous numbers, we have an aggregate loss of eighty-two thousand five hundred men, from the 5th of May to the 5th of June, 1864, and all for the satisfaction of marching from Germania ford to Bethesda Church, to witness the traces of a similar movement mad
