. The photographic history of the Civil War : in ten volumes . r all, the Federal commander was notoutfought. He had to submit to the delaj^ involved in tak-ing Petersburg before he could take Riclimond, but the fallof the Confederate capital was incAatable, since his own lossescould be made up and Lees could not. On June 18, 1864, Lees forces joined in the defense ofPetersburg, and Grant was soon entrenching himself for thesiege of the town. The war had entered upon its final stage,as Lee clearly perceived. The siege lasted until the end ofjNIarch, 1865, Grants ample supplies rendering his vi
. The photographic history of the Civil War : in ten volumes . r all, the Federal commander was notoutfought. He had to submit to the delaj^ involved in tak-ing Petersburg before he could take Riclimond, but the fallof the Confederate capital was incAatable, since his own lossescould be made up and Lees could not. On June 18, 1864, Lees forces joined in the defense ofPetersburg, and Grant was soon entrenching himself for thesiege of the town. The war had entered upon its final stage,as Lee clearly perceived. The siege lasted until the end ofjNIarch, 1865, Grants ample supplies rendering his victory cer-tain, despite the fact that when he tested the fighting qualityof his adversaries he found it unimj^aired. In one sense it wassheer irony to give Lee, in February, 1865, the commander-ship-in-chief of the Confederate armies; yet the act was the out-ward sign of a spiritual fact, since, after all, he was and hadlong been the true Southern commander, and never more sothan when he bore privation with his troops in the wintrytrenches around
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