. Abraham Lincoln and the battles of the Civil War . ored to keepawake, the writer was astonished to find themissing telegrams scrawled across the printedpage in his own writing, some sentences omitted,and some repeated. It was a curious instanceof somnambulism. During the siege of Petersburg every salientpoint on the front of the armies of the Potomacand James was covered with the wires radiatingfrom Grants headquarters at City Point. Onecircuit, crossing the Appomattox, took in theintrenchments on the Bermuda Hundred front,the Tenth Corps headquarters. Later it crossedthe James at Deep Botto
. Abraham Lincoln and the battles of the Civil War . ored to keepawake, the writer was astonished to find themissing telegrams scrawled across the printedpage in his own writing, some sentences omitted,and some repeated. It was a curious instanceof somnambulism. During the siege of Petersburg every salientpoint on the front of the armies of the Potomacand James was covered with the wires radiatingfrom Grants headquarters at City Point. Onecircuit, crossing the Appomattox, took in theintrenchments on the Bermuda Hundred front,the Tenth Corps headquarters. Later it crossedthe James at Deep Bottom by cable, includedthe Crows Nest, Dutch Gap, headquartersArmy of the James, Fort Harrison when cap-tured, and eventually Weitzels headquartersand Kautzs cavalry on our extreme right. Thesecond circuit followed up the south bank ofthe Appomattox to our advanced works, andrunning to the left connected Smith, Hancock,Burnside, and Warren, Sheridan on his arrival,and other commands as they arrived or wereshifted on this important field as the tide of. TKLEGRAIH — BATTEKV \VAi;ON. battle ebbed and flowed, pushing farther tothe left as Grant, throughout the winter andspring, deployed his forces to envelop Lees mentioning that 2586 beeves, to feed our army, wouldbe landed at Coggins Point for pasture. Hampton gotthem all but one lame steer. Doubtless the hungryJohnnies lilessed the operator who neglected tojiutthat message in cipher. The other dis]iatches which(Jaston coiiied were sent to Richnjond, but were neverdeciphered. 79- TELEGRAPHING IN BATTLE. right, until the Hne reached the Weldon rail-road and beyond. Tlius all our forces in frontof Richmond and Petersburg — a semicircle ofthiny miles of intrenchments—were manipu-lated in concert bv the hand of General Grant. Parke in command, gave him three corps andempowered him to assault, while its repair re-stored Meade, regulated the assault, enablingGrant to use his whole force as a unit, and se-cured an advance by our
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