. The twelve decisive battles of the war; a history of the eastern and western campaigns, in relation to the actions that decided their issue . sulting intheir defeat, would drive these armies from their lines ofsupplies, or else quite disperse them, leaving, in either event,the cities they covered to their assailants, Mho would thuscapture Kichmond in Virginia, and, in Georgia, Atlanta, theKichmond of the West. Raised to the supreme command, Lieutenant-Gencral Grantcommitted the care of the Mississippi Valley, and all thearmies between the Allcghanies and the great river, toMajor-Goneral Sher
. The twelve decisive battles of the war; a history of the eastern and western campaigns, in relation to the actions that decided their issue . sulting intheir defeat, would drive these armies from their lines ofsupplies, or else quite disperse them, leaving, in either event,the cities they covered to their assailants, Mho would thuscapture Kichmond in Virginia, and, in Georgia, Atlanta, theKichmond of the West. Raised to the supreme command, Lieutenant-Gencral Grantcommitted the care of the Mississippi Valley, and all thearmies between the Allcghanies and the great river, toMajor-Goneral Sherman. The cami^aign against Lee he de-termined to direct personally, and in this view he esta])lishedhis hcad-(piarters with the Army of the Potomac, the innnedi-ate command of which, however, continued in the hands ofGeneral M(;ade. The few weeks that remained until theseason favorable for military operations should arrive, werefilled up with manifold activities, and by the opening of May ^, •/V,/7/fVy/V/ : ., . ■•• IV. •,1; ••.* •*** ^* • • *». • •• • • • • \* «■ • V .:.^«*;.y^. •> \. jj^=;,w>:r•>^^..•;.:•//».:• ^v-v- .•vv»^•w•^^>^v■i?wv^^■^:^--^-^^ A-^-i*--^vV ;»-/-: -V^ •Jr-^ •■>w «• 6 * :•■■•>••■.-*«■ »■ *.■■ ■.■•«••■-•■% i. ■ •- -■ -*■ •»■,•■ ..»■.■ •>> «• *.•>-n,i• i^>cv^ WILDERNESS. 363 all needed preparations had been completed. Then Grantgave the Avord Forward, and the army in Virginia and thearmy in Tennessee, nnleashcd, joyfully entered upon thosogrand campaigns that will form the subject-matter of thisand the succeeding chapter. n. THE BATTLE OF THE WILDERNESS. On Tuesday, the 3d of ^lay, 186-1, knowing that theArmy of the Potomac must soon move, and being desirous ofchronicling a campaign to which in advance a surpassingjjublic interest attached, I left Washington and proceeded bythe Oran
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