. The life of General Ulysses S. Grant. Containing a brief but faithful narrative of those military and diplomatic achievements which have entitled him to the confidence and gratitude of his countrymen. ond. The continentseemed to shake beneath the tramp of these militaryhosts. Our steamers were loaded, our railroad trainswere freighted, and all our great roads were thronged,with the gathering bands of war. General Grant was so unassuming in his deportment,so simple and unostentatious in his movements, that lieseldom excited an emotion of jealousy. Nearly all hissubordinate officers had so muc
. The life of General Ulysses S. Grant. Containing a brief but faithful narrative of those military and diplomatic achievements which have entitled him to the confidence and gratitude of his countrymen. ond. The continentseemed to shake beneath the tramp of these militaryhosts. Our steamers were loaded, our railroad trainswere freighted, and all our great roads were thronged,with the gathering bands of war. General Grant was so unassuming in his deportment,so simple and unostentatious in his movements, that lieseldom excited an emotion of jealousy. Nearly all hissubordinate officers had so much confidence in his justice,his disinterestedness, and his ability, that they co-oper-ated harmoniously in carrying out his plans. One mindinspired the nation. Not often in the history of theworld has any individual been invested with so muchpower. General Grant immediately took the field. Heestablished his humble headquarters at Culpeper Court-house, in the Old Dominion, not far from Washington ;and his orders flew along the wires, all over our broadland, with lightning rapidity. Prodigious were the in-terests which he was compelled to grasp, and the combi-nations he was called upon to CE^f TRAL x VIRGINIA. CHAPTER XVIII. THE BATTLES OP THE WILDERNESS. The Plan of the Campaigns. — Crossing the Rapidan. — The First DaysBattle. — Picturesque Spectacle. — The Second Days Battle.— TheThird Days Battle. —Peculiarity of the Conflict. — Terrible Lossss. —Battle of Spottsylvania Court-house. — Defeat of the Rebels. — Deathof Wadsworth and Sedgwick. — Anecdotes of General Grant. ENERAL Lee was at this time strongly in-trenched, with a force of about a hundredthousand men, upon the south banks ofthe Rapidan River. He was there, with awell-disciplined army,protecting Richmond,and seriously threatening Washington and the neighbor-ing northern cities of Philadelphia and Baltimore. Thegeneral plan of operations, as adopted by General Grant,consisted in realit
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