. The photographic history of the Civil War : in ten volumes . COPVHIGHT. 1911, PATRIOT PUS. CO. READY FOR THE AUVANCE THAT LEE DR()\E BACK Rptween these luxuriant banks stretch the pontoons and hnilges to faeilitate the rapid crossing of the North Anna by Hancocks Corpson May 2ith. Thus was completed the passage to the south of the stream of the two wings of the Army of the Potomac. But whentlie center under Burnside was driven liitk and severely handUd at Ox Ford. Grant immediately detached a brigade each from Han-cock and Warren to attack the apex of Lees wedge on the south hank of the rive
. The photographic history of the Civil War : in ten volumes . COPVHIGHT. 1911, PATRIOT PUS. CO. READY FOR THE AUVANCE THAT LEE DR()\E BACK Rptween these luxuriant banks stretch the pontoons and hnilges to faeilitate the rapid crossing of the North Anna by Hancocks Corpson May 2ith. Thus was completed the passage to the south of the stream of the two wings of the Army of the Potomac. But whentlie center under Burnside was driven liitk and severely handUd at Ox Ford. Grant immediately detached a brigade each from Han-cock and Warren to attack the apex of Lees wedge on the south hank of the river, but the position was too strong to justify the at-tempt. Then it dawned upon the Federal gcneral-in-chief that Lee had cleaved the Army of the Potomac into two separatedbodies. To reenforcc either wing would require two crossings of the river, while Lee could quickly march troops from one side to theother within his impregnable wedge. As Grant put it in his report. To make a direct attack from either wing %vould cause a slaughterof our men that even .succ
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