A history of Virginia for boys and girls . eand nearer to Richmond ; and all the time Leekept moving around into his path and thrustinghim off from the city. Smoke, blood, and deathmarked the long curve past Bothwell, Hanover,and Cold Harbor, where the steel edges of thearmies clashed and struck fire. THE FINAL FIGHT FOR RICHMOND 315 And among the thousands of nameless heroeswho fell were some whom Fame had crownedwith stars. One such was *Jeb Stuart. Whilethe hard fighting atSpottsylvania CourtHouse was going onGrant sent Sheridanwith 10,000 horsemento cut around behindLees army and rideinto
A history of Virginia for boys and girls . eand nearer to Richmond ; and all the time Leekept moving around into his path and thrustinghim off from the city. Smoke, blood, and deathmarked the long curve past Bothwell, Hanover,and Cold Harbor, where the steel edges of thearmies clashed and struck fire. THE FINAL FIGHT FOR RICHMOND 315 And among the thousands of nameless heroeswho fell were some whom Fame had crownedwith stars. One such was *Jeb Stuart. Whilethe hard fighting atSpottsylvania CourtHouse was going onGrant sent Sheridanwith 10,000 horsemento cut around behindLees army and rideinto Richmond. Itwas a bold plan andmight have suc-ceeded had it notbeen for Stuart andhis troopers. They,by hard riding, over-took Sheridan. AtYellow Tavern, eightmiles north of thecity, they struck little band ofdefenders in the cityheard the sound ofbattle and took courage. Soon Sheridan edgedaway. But at Yellow Tavern Stuart fell. In theevening of May 11 he was shot and the next even-ing he died. He was only thirty-one — in years. MONUMENT IN RICHMOND TO GENERALSTUART 3i6 A HISTORY OF VIRGINIA hardly more than a youth, but in deeds many timesa man. By July Grants great army had circled aroundbelow Richmond, had crossed the James, and, likea huge crouching lion, was facing west. Onepaw was ready to crush Richmond, the other waspushing hard against Petersburg. Lee then had to defend both cities. Forthirty-five miles he stretched his thin lines aroundthem. And in this position both armies dug did not make trenches and dugouts as deepas those used in the recent World War, but theymade them deep enough to show very plainlyafter all these years. Some of the trenches werecovered over and some were made zigzag. Asone goes out south and east of Petersburg to-dayhe can easily trace the ridges and the ditchesfrom which blue and gray watched each otherfrom the summer of 64 till the spring of 65. At one place, now grown up in trees, is a greathole, much larger and deeper th
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