. Grant and his campaigns: a military biography . ass his cavalry to destroy the communicationsbetween Lee and Johnston, so that, instead of joining theirforces, they might be beaten in detail. Sherman at once re-turned to Goldsboro, to move against Johnston. Grants anxiety was now extreme, lest at the last momentLee should escape him, and, by a happy union with Johnston,inaugurate a new, long, and difficult campaign. The greatnumber of deserters daily coming into our lines, led him tobelieve that Lee was contemplating an escape. Spending a few days in reviewing the various divisions, hesent h
. Grant and his campaigns: a military biography . ass his cavalry to destroy the communicationsbetween Lee and Johnston, so that, instead of joining theirforces, they might be beaten in detail. Sherman at once re-turned to Goldsboro, to move against Johnston. Grants anxiety was now extreme, lest at the last momentLee should escape him, and, by a happy union with Johnston,inaugurate a new, long, and difficult campaign. The greatnumber of deserters daily coming into our lines, led him tobelieve that Lee was contemplating an escape. Spending a few days in reviewing the various divisions, hesent his sick and the sutlers to City Point; waited impatientlyfor an attack from Lee, which he thought would be the signalfor his hegira, and then moved the army out in observationand readiness to manoeuvre as a unit; sent his cavalry out tocut the rebel communications, and to remain in front readyfor pursuit; and determined, if it were in human possibility,to finish up the whole matter. v^rL ;1■» W- ^oSlfr ^KMffiLi ■k - -<i(i; V ^^^^^m^^^~ -. THE TRUE BEGINNING OP THE END. 433 CHAPTEB XL. THE TRUE BEGINNING OP THE END. Fight at Dinwiddie Courthouse.—Battle of Five Fores.—Defeat of the re»-els.—Consternation in Richmond.—Its evacuation by Lee.—Pursuit of tub FLEEING ARMY.—SAILORS CrEEK. — Lees SURRENDER.—TkRMS.—SHERMAN.— Stoneman.—Canby at Mobile.—Wilsons command.—Conclusion. It was now the early morning of the 29th of March. Inaccordance with instructions, Ord had moved out with twodivisions of the Twenty-fourth Corps, under Gibbon, and oneof the Twenty-fifth, under Birney, and McKenzies cavalry,on the night of the Twenty-seventh, and at dawn of the 29ththey were at Hatchers Run. On the 28th, Sheridan had received the following instruc-tions: City Point, Va., March 28, —The Fifth Army Corps will move hy the Vaughan road at threeA. M. to-morrow morning. The Second moves at about nine A. m., having butabout three miles to march to reac
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