The American conflict : a history of the great rebellion in the United States of America, 1860-'64 : it's causes, incidents, and results, intended to exhibit especially its moral and political phases, with the drift and progress of American opinion respecting human slavery, from 1776 to the close of the War for the Union . I PROPOSE TO FIGHT IT OUT OX THISLINE, IF IT TAKES ALL SUMMER. U. S. Grant, Command-ing the Armies of the United States. This day was spent in , skirmishing, and getting readyfor the morrow. The afternoon wasrainy. Hancock, at nightfall, was or-der
The American conflict : a history of the great rebellion in the United States of America, 1860-'64 : it's causes, incidents, and results, intended to exhibit especially its moral and political phases, with the drift and progress of American opinion respecting human slavery, from 1776 to the close of the War for the Union . I PROPOSE TO FIGHT IT OUT OX THISLINE, IF IT TAKES ALL SUMMER. U. S. Grant, Command-ing the Armies of the United States. This day was spent in , skirmishing, and getting readyfor the morrow. The afternoon wasrainy. Hancock, at nightfall, was or-dered to leave at midnight his posi-tion fronting Hill, and move silentlyto the left, taking post betweenWright and Burnside, so as to beready for work early in the morning. When morning came, the rain hadgiven place to a fog of exceedingdensity, under cover of which, Han-cock sternly advanced, in two lines;Barlows and Birneys divisions form-ing the first; Gibbons and Mottsthe second. Before them was a sa-lient angle of earthworks, held byEdward Johnsons division of Ew-ells corps. Swiftly, noiselessly sweep-ing over the rugged, difticult, thick-ly wooded intervening space—some1,200 yards—Barlows and Birneysdivisions dashed, with a thunderingcheer, over the front and flank of the May 9. 572 THE AMERICAN SPOTTSYLVANIA COURT HOUSE. enemys works, surprising and over-whelming the Rebels in their trench-es, and capturing Johnson, with mostof his division ; also Stewart and part of two bri-gades ; also 30 guns. The numberof prisoners secured and sent to therear was over 3,000. Hancock wrote in pencil to Grant: I have captured from 30 to 40 have finished up Johnson, and amgoing into Early. He had in fact,tliouerh he did not know it, all butcaptured Lee himself, and had nearlycut the Rebel army in two. But thesurprise was now over, and the rallyof the Rebels was prompt and vigor- ous. Their case was desperate—for de-feat now was annihilation—and
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