General Grant . rces had com-pletely invested the city, a corps on each of the threeroads approaching the place from the north, east,and southeast. This occurred on Alay 19th, twenty days afterthe first crossing at Bruinsburg. As the two gen-erals. Grant and Sherman, from the line of circum-vallation looked down on Walnut Hills, where thelatter had been repulsed the December previous,Sherman remarked that this was the greatest cam-paign in history, and that his superior ought tomake a report of it at once. In twenty days Granthad marched two hundred miles through an ene-mys country, had beaten
General Grant . rces had com-pletely invested the city, a corps on each of the threeroads approaching the place from the north, east,and southeast. This occurred on Alay 19th, twenty days afterthe first crossing at Bruinsburg. As the two gen-erals. Grant and Sherman, from the line of circum-vallation looked down on Walnut Hills, where thelatter had been repulsed the December previous,Sherman remarked that this was the greatest cam-paign in history, and that his superior ought tomake a report of it at once. In twenty days Granthad marched two hundred miles through an ene-mys country, had beaten two armies in five battles,captured nearly one hundred cannon, and killedor made prisoners nearly twelve thousand of John-stons and Pembertons troops. An assault was or-dered this same day, with the hope of carrying theworks before the enemy could recover from thedemoralization of Champion Hill and the Big Black,but it resulted only in securing better positions forthe operations of the army. On the night of the.
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