. Gen. Robert Edward Lee; soldier, citizen, and Christian patriot. omplished no more thanMcClellan had done, was driven from itas McClellan had been, and soughtrefuge on the James as McClellan haddone, for which McClellan was dis-honored, yet Grant was applauded. Bycontinuing these flank movements, atno time able to break General Leeslines, he finally drew General Lee oveito Petersburg, and failing, during thewinter of 1864 and 1865, to break throughthe lines, although they were extendedfrom Richmond to and beyond Petersburg, General Grant was forcedto employ the same tactics—extending his lef
. Gen. Robert Edward Lee; soldier, citizen, and Christian patriot. omplished no more thanMcClellan had done, was driven from itas McClellan had been, and soughtrefuge on the James as McClellan haddone, for which McClellan was dis-honored, yet Grant was applauded. Bycontinuing these flank movements, atno time able to break General Leeslines, he finally drew General Lee oveito Petersburg, and failing, during thewinter of 1864 and 1865, to break throughthe lines, although they were extendedfrom Richmond to and beyond Petersburg, General Grant was forcedto employ the same tactics—extending his left flank; and finallysucceeded, on the ist of April, 1865, in overlapping General Lee,turning his flank, and capturing his line of communication at FiveForks, and compelling the evacuation of Petersburg and Lee had anticipated this, had arranged that rations shouldbe stored and provided for him at Amelia Courthouse, and hisretreat from Petersburg and Richmond to Amelia Courthouse wassuccessfully and comfortably conducted. When he reached Amelia. 376 GENERAL ROBERT EDWARD LEE, Courthouse, findiug his rations were not there, as he had provided, andthat there was no possible way of feeding his men or giving forage tohis horses—the country not affording such—he had only one course,and that was to surrender his army. Had General Lee obtainedprovisions at Amelia Courthouse, there would have been no troublein the world about his going on and meeting Johnston and unitingthe two armies. They could easily, when united, have drawn Grantand Sherman into the interior, where these two hostile armies couldnot have been fed, neither could they have gotten supplies of am-munition, and by a few weeks of skirmishing and small battling
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