. The military and civil history of Connecticut during the war of 1861-65 . CHAPTER XLIII. Affairs before Richmond. — Grant and Sherman of Connecticut Stock. — Genealogy. —Location and Organization of Connecticut Regiments. — The First Cavahy returnsto Petersburg. — Whitaker captures Major Gilmor. — Twelfth and Eighteenth Regi-ments.— First Artillery.—Death of Trumbull. — Second Artillery.—First, Second, and Third Batteries. — Sixth and Seventh. — Death of ChaplainEaton. — Eighth, Eleventh, Twenty-first, and Twenty-ninth. — Ninth and Thirteenth.— Tenth and Fourteenth. — Shermans Gr


. The military and civil history of Connecticut during the war of 1861-65 . CHAPTER XLIII. Affairs before Richmond. — Grant and Sherman of Connecticut Stock. — Genealogy. —Location and Organization of Connecticut Regiments. — The First Cavahy returnsto Petersburg. — Whitaker captures Major Gilmor. — Twelfth and Eighteenth Regi-ments.— First Artillery.—Death of Trumbull. — Second Artillery.—First, Second, and Third Batteries. — Sixth and Seventh. — Death of ChaplainEaton. — Eighth, Eleventh, Twenty-first, and Twenty-ninth. — Ninth and Thirteenth.— Tenth and Fourteenth. — Shermans Great March Northward. — The Fifth andTwentieth. — Incidents of the Campaign. — Battles and Victories. — Casualties. —Disaster of the Fifteenth Connecticut. — The Sixteenth. ULYSSES GRANT was not the man to relax hisgrip on Richmond. When the spring of 1865stirred among the sentient roots of grasses,and woke the beauty latent in the hills, he hadstrengthened his chain of redoubts, tightenedhis cordon of rifles, and reached farthe


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