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Title: Our greater country; being a standard history of the United States from the discovery of the American continent to the present time .. Year: 1901 (1900s) Authors: Northrop, Henry Davenport, 1836-1909 Subjects: Publisher: Philadelphia, National pub co. View Book Page: Book Viewer About This Book: Catalog Entry View All Images: All Images From Book Click here to view book online to see this illustration in context in a browseable online version of this book. Text Appearing Before Image: POSITIONS OF THE ARMIES NEAR PETERSBURG, VA. two columns and resumed his ride onthe sixth of March. He most thoroughly and the canal between Richmond andLynchburg shared the same fate for a 77^ THE CIVIL WAR. considerable distance. Being unable to crossthe James above Richmond on account ofthe high water, he moved around the northof Richmond, crossed the river at DeepBottom and joined Grant before Petersburgon the twenty-sixth of March. He hadutterly laid waste the country along hisiroute. The arrival of this splendid force ofcavalry was of the greatest service to Grant,as we shall see. The situation of General Lees army was Text Appearing After Image: GENERAL ROBERT E. LEE. growmg more critical every day. He hadless than forty thousand troops. He wasfully convinced of the necessity of abandon-ing Richmond and Petersburg, and was anx-ious to do so at once, and unite his armywith that of General Johnston and occupy anew position in the interior of the South. Inorder to secure the withdrawal of his army,he determined to make a vigorous attackupon Grants right, hoping to compel him, inorder to help his right, to draw back his leftwing, which was in dangerous proximity to the road by which Ixe wished to retreat.Could he succeed in this effort, he meant toevacuate his position at Petersburg and retiretowards Danville, where he hoped to unitewith General Johnston. On the twenty-fifth of March, he made aheavy attack upon Fort Steadman, on the,right of Grants line, and captured it. TheFederal forces rallied, however, and drovethe Confederates from the captured worksback to their own line, inflicting upon thema loss of three thousand men, Le Note About Images Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original work. |
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