The world: historical and actual . at thetime hadcome to putan end to(he war byone greatiattle beforev US SI In this he was mistak-philip h. sueeidan. en. Sher- man was ordered to advance on Atlanta the same day that Grant crossed the Rapid Anna to engage? Lee. For two days the battle raged and the slaughter was terrible. Grant lost 20,000 men; Lee 10,000. Neither gained any advantage. But Grant was not disheartened or shaken in his purpose. With dogged perseverance he followed up that battle with another, the battle of Spottsylvania Court House. fought May 10,11 and 12. In that gr
The world: historical and actual . at thetime hadcome to putan end to(he war byone greatiattle beforev US SI In this he was mistak-philip h. sueeidan. en. Sher- man was ordered to advance on Atlanta the same day that Grant crossed the Rapid Anna to engage? Lee. For two days the battle raged and the slaughter was terrible. Grant lost 20,000 men; Lee 10,000. Neither gained any advantage. But Grant was not disheartened or shaken in his purpose. With dogged perseverance he followed up that battle with another, the battle of Spottsylvania Court House. fought May 10,11 and 12. In that great battle fell General John Sedgwick of New York, commander of the Sixth Corps. On the 11th inst. General Grant seutto the War Department the famous dispatch, I propose to fight it out on this line if it takes all summer. In those words were revealed the character of the man and the secret of his power. All summer stretched into and through the next winter, and it was not on this line that final victory was won. He kept pushing.
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