. The lives and campaigns of Grant and Lee. A comparison and contrast of the deeds and characters of the two great leaders in the civil war . furnishing water, the railroads and pikeroads, communicating with the richest parts of the Con-federacy and drawing supplies from all, and further thelikelihood that Grant would not swing out and cut connec-tion with his last, most southern base of supplies, whichanother left-flank movement would demand, all combinedto induce this belief. The line of defence really includedRichmond, beginning on the James above, encircling theCapital by an eastward sweep
. The lives and campaigns of Grant and Lee. A comparison and contrast of the deeds and characters of the two great leaders in the civil war . furnishing water, the railroads and pikeroads, communicating with the richest parts of the Con-federacy and drawing supplies from all, and further thelikelihood that Grant would not swing out and cut connec-tion with his last, most southern base of supplies, whichanother left-flank movement would demand, all combinedto induce this belief. The line of defence really includedRichmond, beginning on the James above, encircling theCapital by an eastward sweep; again, touching the Jamesnear Chapins Farm, opposite Drurys Bluff; thence extend-ing across the neck of the peninsula of Bermuda Hundred tothe Appomatox River at a point northeast of Petersburg;thence by a southwestward sweep to the Weldon Railroad —the inner line turning northward again to the Appomatox,at the point where the Jerusalem Plank Road intersectedthe outer works, and ending at the Appomatox, above Peters-burg. But, as it was Lees intention to guard against Grantsevident designs to capture and cut the railroads south and. 496 THE LIVES AND CAMPAIGNS OF GRANT AND LEE. southwest of Petersburg, he caused several different lines offortifications, now and later, to be erected south and west,extending beyond the inner line many miles in that direction. The fortifications about Richmond proper, were triple,the outer line following the ridge of low bluffs overlookingthe Chickahominy, and at a general distance of six milesfrom the city; the second, at a general distance of threemiles; and the third, about one and a half miles out. Theouter works were very elaborate. They ^consisted of aseries of forts, mounting batteries, with connecting works ofparapet and ditch, and with chevaux-de-frise, abbattis andrifle pits for pickets in front and under range of the bat-teries. From the position of the various forts, cross-firescould be had, and more than one battery turned upon an
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