A young people's history of Virginia and Virginians .. . per-petuate their fame. The Sixty-second Virginia regiment,under their gallant colonel, Smith, veterans of many vic-tories charged in line with the boys and shared the gloryof the victory. Fall of Richmond.—General Grant continued to extendhis lines around Petersburg with the view of cutting therailroads by which supplies were brought to Lees army,and hemming in Lee, whose force was now reduced toabout 35,000 men, guarding entrenched lines over thirty-five miles in length. To foil this effort, Petersburg andRichmond were abandoned on the

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A young people's history of Virginia and Virginians .. . per-petuate their fame. The Sixty-second Virginia regiment,under their gallant colonel, Smith, veterans of many vic-tories charged in line with the boys and shared the gloryof the victory. Fall of Richmond.—General Grant continued to extendhis lines around Petersburg with the view of cutting therailroads by which supplies were brought to Lees army,and hemming in Lee, whose force was now reduced toabout 35,000 men, guarding entrenched lines over thirty-five miles in length. To foil this effort, Petersburg andRichmond were abandoned on the 3d of April, glorious army was reduced to 32,000 men, whileGrant had under his orders 220,000. Lee moved off* fromPetersburg and endeavored to get to Danville, intendingto unite his army with Johnstons in North in this because the supplies which he had orderedto be sent to Amelia Courthouse had by some blunderbeen sent on to Richmond, he then endeavored to get toLynchburg to protract the struggle in the ^Vs^

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