. The Civil War through the camera : hundreds of vivid photographs actually taken in Civil War times, together with Elson's new history . SPOTSYLVANIA COURT HOUSE WHERE GRANT WANTED TO FIGHT IT OUT For miles around this quaint old village-pump surged the lines of two vast con-tending armies. May 8-12, 1864. In this picture of only a few months later, theinhabitants have returned to their accustomed quiet, although the reverberationsof battle have hardly died away. But on May 7th Generals Grant and Meade,with their staffs, had started toward the little courthouse. As they passed alongthe Brock
. The Civil War through the camera : hundreds of vivid photographs actually taken in Civil War times, together with Elson's new history . SPOTSYLVANIA COURT HOUSE WHERE GRANT WANTED TO FIGHT IT OUT For miles around this quaint old village-pump surged the lines of two vast con-tending armies. May 8-12, 1864. In this picture of only a few months later, theinhabitants have returned to their accustomed quiet, although the reverberationsof battle have hardly died away. But on May 7th Generals Grant and Meade,with their staffs, had started toward the little courthouse. As they passed alongthe Brock Road in the rear of Hancocks lines, the men broke into loud saw that the movement was still to be southward. But chance had causedLee to choose the same objective. Misinterpreting Grants movement as a retreatupon Fredericksburg, he sent Longstreets corps, now commanded by Anderson,to Spotsylvania. Chance again, in the form of a forest fire, drove Anderson tomake, on the night of May 7th, the march from the Wilderness that he had beenordered to commence on the morning of the 8th. On that day, while Warren wascontending
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