. The pictorial history of the great Civil War: its causes, origin, conduct and results; embracing full and authentic accounts of its battles by land and sea, with graphic descriptions of heroic deeds achieved by armies and individuals; narratives of personal adventure; thrilling incidents; daring exploits; wonderful escapes; life in camp, field, and hospital; adventures at sea; blockade life, etc., etc.; containing carefully prepared biographies of the leading generals and naval commanders of both the North and the South / by John Laird Wilson . ammunition were all but ex-hausted, he deemed i
. The pictorial history of the great Civil War: its causes, origin, conduct and results; embracing full and authentic accounts of its battles by land and sea, with graphic descriptions of heroic deeds achieved by armies and individuals; narratives of personal adventure; thrilling incidents; daring exploits; wonderful escapes; life in camp, field, and hospital; adventures at sea; blockade life, etc., etc.; containing carefully prepared biographies of the leading generals and naval commanders of both the North and the South / by John Laird Wilson . ammunition were all but ex-hausted, he deemed it prudent to considering it safe to fall back bytlie road he had come, he Ietreated byway of Salem, hotly pursued by theenemj. At Meadow Bridge, he ex-pected to find abundant supplies; foronly a few days before. Crook and Ave-rill had left at that place 1,500,000Iations, in charge of two Ohio regi-ments. The place had been set upon bya band of guerrillas; and rations andmen liad equally disappeared. It wasnot until the 27th, nine days after hisretreat from Lynchbuig, five days afterhe had visited Meadow Bridge, thatHunter obtained rations for his had suffered terribly; but theyhad inflicted vast injury on the Con-federates, by the destruction of foun-dries, factories, mills and other prop-erty. Such were the results of theco-operative movements under Butleron the one hand, and under Sigel andHunter on the other. They weakenedthe South; but they were not other-wise of any immediate practical benefitto General f TB THE NEW YOI^PUBLIC LIBRARY ASTOB, LENOX ANDTILOEN FOUNDATIONS GRANT AT THE NORTH ANNA. 693 We now return to the army of tbePotomac. We left it at SpottsylvaniaCourt House, about to resume itsmarch towards Richmond. The move-ment was commenced about midnight,May Of the 2()th. Hancock led the20. way, with Torberts cavalry inadvance. Moving first eastward as faras Mattaponax Church, under cover ofthe remaining corps, he tlien turned tothe so
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