. Life and services of Gen. U. S. Grant . He was at Dinwiddie Courthouse on the afternoon of the29th at five oclock. Custer had been left at Malons crossingto protect the trains. Our lines were then arranged thus :Sheridan on the extreme left, and our infantry, under Warren,extended to the Quaker road, near its intersection with the THE TRUE BEGINNING OF THE END. 435. BATTLE-FIELD OF DINWrDDIE COURTHOUSE. 436 GRANT AND HIS CAMPAIGNS. Bojdton road ; next, on tlie right, was Humphreys; next, Ord 1aud Wright; while Parke held the works in front of Petersburg. *In this position, Grant was almost c
. Life and services of Gen. U. S. Grant . He was at Dinwiddie Courthouse on the afternoon of the29th at five oclock. Custer had been left at Malons crossingto protect the trains. Our lines were then arranged thus :Sheridan on the extreme left, and our infantry, under Warren,extended to the Quaker road, near its intersection with the THE TRUE BEGINNING OF THE END. 435. BATTLE-FIELD OF DINWrDDIE COURTHOUSE. 436 GRANT AND HIS CAMPAIGNS. Bojdton road ; next, on tlie right, was Humphreys; next, Ord 1aud Wright; while Parke held the works in front of Petersburg. *In this position, Grant was almost certain that the time hadcome for caiDturing Kichmond, and, what was of far more im-portance, defeating Lee and forcing him to a surrender. Tothis end, he sent Sheridan the following important and signifi-cant dispatch: Gravelly Kun, March 29, —Our line is now unbroken from the Appomattox to are all ready, however, to give up all from the Jerusalem plankroad toHatchers Run, whenever the forces can be used advantageously. After gettinginto line south of Hatchers, we pushed forward to find the enemys Griffin was attacked near where the Quaker road intersects the Boyd-ton road, but repulsed it easily, capturing about one hundred men. Hum-phreys reached Dabneys mill, and was pushing on when last heard from.[i I now feel l
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