The history of the state of Indiana : from the earliest explorations by the French to the present time, containing an account of the principal civil, political, and military events, from 1763 to 1897 . ets the Confederates were driven backon the tide that was sweeping up from the other portionsof the intrenchments. Lee had sent word to Richmond thathe could no longer protect that city, and on the 2d it wasabandoned by the Confederate government, and the nextday General Weitzel, at the head of the Union troops, tookpossession. General Grant had intended to assault theinner works of Petersburg o
The history of the state of Indiana : from the earliest explorations by the French to the present time, containing an account of the principal civil, political, and military events, from 1763 to 1897 . ets the Confederates were driven backon the tide that was sweeping up from the other portionsof the intrenchments. Lee had sent word to Richmond thathe could no longer protect that city, and on the 2d it wasabandoned by the Confederate government, and the nextday General Weitzel, at the head of the Union troops, tookpossession. General Grant had intended to assault theinner works of Petersburg on the 3d, but Lee evacuatedthem the night before. Now it was a race; Lee striving toget away, either to join Johnston in North Carolina, or toescape to the mountains, but Grant was a General whonever let an enemy escape. Sheridan, with his terribletroopers, rode here and rode there, and wherever Leeturned, there he found those troopers across his path. Theend came, and on the 9th of April, 1865, Lee surrendered hisarmy, but before the surrender several sharp contests hadto be fought, one of which. Sailors Creek, rose to the dignityof a battle. Soon after, on April 26, General Joseph E. Johnston. WAR OF THE REBELLION. 441 surrendered his forces to General Sherman. It was in-tended that this surrender should include all those still inarms against the Government, but some detached troopskept up a show of hostility for some days longer. Indianawas in at the death, some of her troops being in the fight atSailors Creek, with Sheridan, and some with Sherman- atAverysboro and Bentonville. The last battle of the warwas fought at Palmetto Ranch, Texas, and in that an In-diana regiment took part, the last gun of the war beingfired by an Indianian. Thus, it will be seen that the loyalsons of Indiana took part in the first battle fought in theEebellion, not counting the bombardment of Fort Sumter(but even there an Indiana soldier took a leading part), andin the last engagement with the host
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