Essentials of United States history . ense and the slaughter was the most terrible of the whole war. The ob-stacles confronting Grantwere many and him was a deter-mined veteran army underthe command of officersbrave, brilliant, and expe-rienced. He was in theenemys country, whichwas indeed a showed his skill andstrategy, especially by thesimple device of flankmovements. When Leeconfronted him in a for-tified position, instead ofengaging in a bull-dogattack in front, he simj)ly marched his army past the enemysflank and forced Lee to retreat to a new position. In thisw
Essentials of United States history . ense and the slaughter was the most terrible of the whole war. The ob-stacles confronting Grantwere many and him was a deter-mined veteran army underthe command of officersbrave, brilliant, and expe-rienced. He was in theenemys country, whichwas indeed a showed his skill andstrategy, especially by thesimple device of flankmovements. When Leeconfronted him in a for-tified position, instead ofengaging in a bull-dogattack in front, he simj)ly marched his army past the enemysflank and forced Lee to retreat to a new position. In thisway, although with fearful slaughter, day by day he pushedforward, till in one month his army had reached the Chicka-hominy, and Lee, with his whole force, was within the de-fenses of Richmond. In this campaign of the Wilderness theentire loss on both sides was about forty thousand men, fullythree fourths of which was from Grants army. Yet eventhis great loss was better than long sieges and the inevitablediseases incident to camp General U. S. Graxt. LINCOLNS FIRST ADMINISTRATION (1861-1865) 303 390. Richmond Defenses Impregnable. — It did not takelong for Grant to discover that the defenses of Richmondupon the north side of the city were well-nigli therefore determined to make another flank plan was to push his army southward and so cut off therailroads which brought supplies to Lees army. He movedhis army around Richmond on the east, crossed the JamesRiver, and attacked Petersburg. 391. Sheridan in the Shenandoah Valley.—The most success-ful cavalry general in the Union army was the intrepid PhilSheridan. Grant sent him and his brave cavalry into the ShenandoahValley against General Early, whohad gone down that valley on a raidto threaten Washington. Sheridandefeated Early at Winchester andFishers Hill, and Early retreatedrai)idly up the Shenandoah reenforcements. Early re-turned and surprised the Union forcesat Cedar Cree
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