. The photographic history of the Civil War : in ten volumes . QHT, 1911, PATRIOT PUB. CO. THE GRAND CAMPAIGN UNDER WAY—THE DAY BEFORE THE BATTLE Pontoon-Bridges at Germanna Ford, on the Rapidan. Here the Sixth Corps under Sedgwick and Warrens Fiftli Corps began crossingon tlie morning of May i. 18G4. The Second Corps, under Hancock, crossed at Elys Ford, farther to the east. The cavalry, underShiridan, was in advance. By night the army, witli tlic exception of Burnsidcs Ninth Corps, was soutli of tlie Rapidan, advancing intotlir Wilderness. The Ninth Corps (a reserve of twenty thousand men) r
. The photographic history of the Civil War : in ten volumes . QHT, 1911, PATRIOT PUB. CO. THE GRAND CAMPAIGN UNDER WAY—THE DAY BEFORE THE BATTLE Pontoon-Bridges at Germanna Ford, on the Rapidan. Here the Sixth Corps under Sedgwick and Warrens Fiftli Corps began crossingon tlie morning of May i. 18G4. The Second Corps, under Hancock, crossed at Elys Ford, farther to the east. The cavalry, underShiridan, was in advance. By night the army, witli tlic exception of Burnsidcs Ninth Corps, was soutli of tlie Rapidan, advancing intotlir Wilderness. The Ninth Corps (a reserve of twenty thousand men) remained temporarily north of the Rappahannock, guardingrailway communications. On the wooden pontoon-bridge the rear-guard is crossing while the pontonnicrs are taking up the canvas bridgebeyond. The movement was magnificently managed; Grant belicvetl it to be a complete surprise, as Lee had offered no was yet to come. In the bafiSing fighting of the Wilderness and Spotsylvania Court House, Grant was to lose a third of his superiornumber, a
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