. The patriotism of Illinois. A record of the civil and military history of the state in the war for the Union, with a history of the campaigns in which Illinois soldiers have been conspicuous, sketches of distinguished officers, the roll of the illustrious dead, movements of the sanitary and Christian commissions . ger is King—Lees Officerssay Surrender—Bloody Fighting—Grant Demands the Surrender of LeesArmy—Lees Answer—Grants Terms—Sheridan Mistaken—Lee Heads towardLynchburg—Changes and comes between Lee and Supplies—Appomattox Station—Lee Proposes Diplomacy—Attempts to Cut throuh Sheridans
. The patriotism of Illinois. A record of the civil and military history of the state in the war for the Union, with a history of the campaigns in which Illinois soldiers have been conspicuous, sketches of distinguished officers, the roll of the illustrious dead, movements of the sanitary and Christian commissions . ger is King—Lees Officerssay Surrender—Bloody Fighting—Grant Demands the Surrender of LeesArmy—Lees Answer—Grants Terms—Sheridan Mistaken—Lee Heads towardLynchburg—Changes and comes between Lee and Supplies—Appomattox Station—Lee Proposes Diplomacy—Attempts to Cut throuh Sheridans Cavalry— What ! Infantry ! —White Flag—Grants Answer—Lee Proposes Surren-der—Correspondence—The Army of Northern Virginia—Grant goes toWashington—His Report—His Plans Successful. THE siege before Petersburg went slowly on. Efforts had beenmade and failed to secure the South-side Railroad, and Han-cock sustained a severe assault from Lee, but repulsed it. The armyof the James attempted to drive the enemy on the Williamsburgand York River railroads, but foiled, though a work of considerableimportance was carried, and so the army rested from any grandmovement from October until the opening of the spring army under Grant and Meade had lost from May 5, 1864, to. CX-. So . CLARKE & CO. PUBLISHERS 3 ^ sheridans raid. 425 November 1, 1864, as follows: Killed—officers, 796 ; enlisted men,9,776; wounded—officers, 2,796; enlisted men, 51,161; missing—officers, 775 ; enlisted men, 23,083. An aggregate loss of 88,387and yet the defences of Petersburg were impregnable, Rich-mond flaunted its defiant flags in the face of our veterans, and theArmy of Northern Virginia, one of the best disciplined and bravestever led to battle, though decimated, held our forces at bay. Grantwas criticized by many, but his strategy was to succeed. Possiblysome shorter road to success might have been found, but Grant atlast succeeded, and crush
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