. The twelve decisive battles of the war; a history of the eastern and western campaigns, in relation to the actions that decided their issue . himself there, retreated on the night of the Kith, andsoon afterwards his troops were returned to the quarterswhence they had come. Sherman, after destrf)ying the rail-ways, retraced his steps to the Big Black. Other expeditionswere also sent out in various (juartcrs to give the finishingtouchers to the great work, and (Ji-ant having a large surplusof men, sent the division of Steele to Helena to aid Schofield,then commanding the Department of ]\Iissoi
. The twelve decisive battles of the war; a history of the eastern and western campaigns, in relation to the actions that decided their issue . himself there, retreated on the night of the Kith, andsoon afterwards his troops were returned to the quarterswhence they had come. Sherman, after destrf)ying the rail-ways, retraced his steps to the Big Black. Other expeditionswere also sent out in various (juartcrs to give the finishingtouchers to the great work, and (Ji-ant having a large surplusof men, sent the division of Steele to Helena to aid Schofield,then commanding the Department of ]\Iissoiu-i, and Ord andIleiTon to Banks, to take part in new movements projectedin the Department of the Gulf. The army now had a long rest from its labors ; but when,in October, it again took the field, there was found in all theValley of the Mississippi no foeman woi-thy of its steel. Onthe river line of the West, conquest had been pushed to itsutmost limits, and for grand military operations in the centrezone, there only remained the moimtain line of Tennessee,where Rosecrans, ensconced in Chattanooga, pointed the wajto Atlanta and the r f-Yx>L^cV^- GETTYSBURG. 311 I. TKELUDE TO GETTYSBURG. If, leaving the burial-place at Gettysburg from the southside, the pctlestrian follow the crest of Cemetery Ridge,keeping before him the bold figure of Hound Top ]\Iountainus a beacon, he will in a few minutes walk reach a clump ofwoods which, so long as a tree thereof stands, must remainthe most interesting memorial-spot of the greatest battle ofthe war. Into this bunch of woods a few — it ma} l:»e a scoreor two — of the boldest and bravest that led the van ofPicketts charging column on the 3d of July, 1863, far the swelling surge of invasion threw its spray, dash-ing itself to pieces on the rocky bulwark of Xorthern us call this the high-water mark of the rebellion. But in another and larger scope Gettysburg itself is thereal high-water ma
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