. The photographic history of the Civil War : in ten volumes . realized that the fallof Petersburg meant the fall of Richmond, and that the ])atienttoil on the miles of entrenchments around the capital finally hadhad the effect of causing the blow to fall elsewhere. Two ex-jieditions were sent by Grant against the lines to the north ofRichmond, but not in sufficient strength to test the works. Theprincipal object was to weaken the forces defending Peters-burg so as to permit a successful assault to be delivered. The Federal army, under able leaders tested in the furnaceof Avar, exhausted every
. The photographic history of the Civil War : in ten volumes . realized that the fallof Petersburg meant the fall of Richmond, and that the ])atienttoil on the miles of entrenchments around the capital finally hadhad the effect of causing the blow to fall elsewhere. Two ex-jieditions were sent by Grant against the lines to the north ofRichmond, but not in sufficient strength to test the works. Theprincipal object was to weaken the forces defending Peters-burg so as to permit a successful assault to be delivered. The Federal army, under able leaders tested in the furnaceof Avar, exhausted every device to break through the Petersburglines. They tried them by assault, by mining, by flanking, andl)y bombardment. Lees genius, seconded by that of his officers,and maintained by the gallant devotion of his troops, held ontill the army was worn out and the stretching of the lines byconstant extension to meet the Federal movements to the left,finally caused them to be so weak as to break under a Federalassault. Petersburs: was abandoned, and Richmond
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