. Our greater country; being a standard history of the United States from the discovery of the American continent to the present time ... e battle of Cold Harbor,on the twenty-seventh of June, covered his entire line with strongearthworks. On the first of June a sharp encounteroccurred between the Federal right andthe Confederate left wings, and on themorning of the third of June, Grant made ageneral assault upon the Confederate attack was made with great gallantry, butwas repulsed with a loss to the Federal armyof thirteen thousand men. The losses ofthe Army of the Potomac s
. Our greater country; being a standard history of the United States from the discovery of the American continent to the present time ... e battle of Cold Harbor,on the twenty-seventh of June, covered his entire line with strongearthworks. On the first of June a sharp encounteroccurred between the Federal right andthe Confederate left wings, and on themorning of the third of June, Grant made ageneral assault upon the Confederate attack was made with great gallantry, butwas repulsed with a loss to the Federal armyof thirteen thousand men. The losses ofthe Army of the Potomac since the passageof the Rapidan had reached the enormoustotal of over sixty thousand men. The Con-federate loss during the same period wasabout twenty thousand. Failing to force the Confederate line at Cold Harbor, GeneralGrant drew off leisurely towards the JamesRiver at Wilcoxs Landing, intending to crossthat river and attack Richmond from thesouth side of the James. In the meantime, upon reaching Spottsyl-vania Court-house, General Grant had sentGeneral Sheridan, with ten thousand cavalry,to destroy the railroads connecting Rich-. GENERAL FiTZHUGH LEE. mond with Lees army and the valley of Vir-ginia. Sheridan executed his orders withcomplete success, and went within sevenmiles of Richmond. On the tenth of Mayhe reached Ashland. He was attacked thereby the Confederate cavarly under GeneralStuart, and moved off towards , marching by a shorter route, threwhis cavalry between Sheridan and Richmond,and asrain encountered him at the Yellow 748 THE CIVIL WAR. Tavern, on the Brook turnpike, seven milesfrom the city. Stuart was mortally wounded, and Sheri-dan secured his retreat across the Chicka-hominy and down the peninsula. In GeneralStuart the Confederates lost their only greatcavalry leader. Had Sheridan, instead ofhalting at Ashland, pushed straight on toRichmond, the Confederate capital musthave fallen into his hands. On the twenty-fifth of June he rejoined Gener
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