. The battle of Atlanta and other campaigns, addresses, etc. . sion, as you know, about it, ■ ;d Grant, with the same twinkle of the eye that I had seen at■.asliville, said, T only claim that after that battle, (and I took Ile initiative on tlic ]Harch towards Richmond.) th;it tlie Armv of 156 Eeuxion of Akmy of rOTOilAC. the Potomac was no longer afraid of Bobby Lee. He liad notforgotten his talk with us at Xashville. N^ow you have had Grants opinion of your great Army, and asmy toast is the Army of the Tennessee. I will close by giving youGeneral Grants description of that i\.rmy Avhen calle
. The battle of Atlanta and other campaigns, addresses, etc. . sion, as you know, about it, ■ ;d Grant, with the same twinkle of the eye that I had seen at■.asliville, said, T only claim that after that battle, (and I took Ile initiative on tlic ]Harch towards Richmond.) th;it tlie Armv of 156 Eeuxion of Akmy of rOTOilAC. the Potomac was no longer afraid of Bobby Lee. He liad notforgotten his talk with us at Xashville. N^ow you have had Grants opinion of your great Army, and asmy toast is the Army of the Tennessee. I will close by giving youGeneral Grants description of that i\.rmy Avhen called upon torespond to the same toast at one of our reunions. He said, As anArmy, the Army of the Tennessee never sustained a single defeatduring four years of war. Every fortification which it assailed sur-rendered. Every force arrayed against it was either defeated,captured, or destroyed. iSTo officer was ever assigned to the com-mand of that army who had afterwards to be relieved from it or tobe reduced to another command. Such a history is not USE OF BLOCK-HOUSES DURINGTHE CIVIL WAR To the Editor of the Army and Navy Journal: I was greatly interested in the communication of CaptainJoubert Eeitz, published in your journal March 31, 1903, giving adescription of the block-house system inaugurated by GeneralKitchener in the Transvaal War. It was a continuous line ofblock-houses connected by barbed wire, to prevent the Boers crossingthe railway lines, and virtually corralling their forces in certaindistricts until want of food forced them to surrender. CaptainEeitz asserts that the block-house system did more to end the warthan the whole British Army. In the Civil War our block-house system was just as effective,but in another direction. We used it for the purpose of protectingour lines of communication, not as a trocha, or a line connectedwith wire fencing and other obstructions, as used by the British andby the Spaniards in the Cuban War. The British built theirs o
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