. The Americana : a universal reference library, comprising the arts and sciences, literature, history, biography, geography, commerce, etc. of the world . ed12 May by Gen. E. R. S. Canby. On 12 March 1864, Gen. Grant, who had mond by Lees right. Sherman, with three ar-mies, the Cumberland, under George , the Tennessee, under McPherson, andthe Ohio, under Schofield, aggregating nearly100,000 men, was to move against Johnstonsarmy at Dalton and follow it. Banks was toleave the Red River country to Steele and thenavy, abandon Texas, and move against Mo-bile with his 25,000 men, re-enforc
. The Americana : a universal reference library, comprising the arts and sciences, literature, history, biography, geography, commerce, etc. of the world . ed12 May by Gen. E. R. S. Canby. On 12 March 1864, Gen. Grant, who had mond by Lees right. Sherman, with three ar-mies, the Cumberland, under George , the Tennessee, under McPherson, andthe Ohio, under Schofield, aggregating nearly100,000 men, was to move against Johnstonsarmy at Dalton and follow it. Banks was toleave the Red River country to Steele and thenavy, abandon Texas, and move against Mo-bile with his 25,000 men, re-enforced by 5,000from Missouri. Grant established his headquarters with theArmy of the Potomac, Meade having the full di-rection of the army under Grants general Army of the Potomac moved toward theRapidan in the early morning of 4 May, and bynight all the troops had crossed. Grants force was about 119,000, and Leesabout 62,000. Lee pushed rapidly to his right andstruck Grants advance in the Wilderness 5 fighting followed till the night of the6th. Lee pushed on to Spottsylvania, reachingit in advance of Grant and interposing on the. been commissioned lieutenant-general, thatgrade having been revived by Congress, wasplaced in command of all the armies. Earlyin April he had formed a plan for a combinedmovement of the armies to begin toward thelast of the month, and had communicated thesame to Meade with the Army of the Potomac,Butler at Fort Monroe, Sherman at Chatta-nooga, and Banks at New Orleans. The mainConfederate armies were those of Lee, atOrange, with Longstreet at Gordonsville, con-fronting Meade in the vicinity of Culpeper, andJohnston at Dalton, Ga., facing Sherman in thevicinity of Chattanooga. Grants general plan was for Gillmore, fromSouth Carolina, with 10,000 men, to join But-ler at Fort Monroe, giving him troopsfor a move up the James to capture City Point,threatening Petersburg and the rear of Rich-mond. Burnside, with men assembl
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