. The battle of Atlanta and other campaigns, addresses, n great discussion, as you know, about it,and Grant, with the same twinkle of the eye that T had seen atXashville, said, I only claim that after that battle, (and I tooktlie initiative on tlie inarcli towards Eiehnioud.) that tlie Armv of 156 Keuxiox of Army of Potomac. the Potomac was no longer afraid of Bobby Lee. He had notforgotten his talk with us at Nashville. Now you ha\e had Grants opinion of your great Army, and asmy toast is the Army of the Tennessee, I Avill close by giving youGeneral Grants description of that Amiy when
. The battle of Atlanta and other campaigns, addresses, n great discussion, as you know, about it,and Grant, with the same twinkle of the eye that T had seen atXashville, said, I only claim that after that battle, (and I tooktlie initiative on tlie inarcli towards Eiehnioud.) that tlie Armv of 156 Keuxiox of Army of Potomac. the Potomac was no longer afraid of Bobby Lee. He had notforgotten his talk with us at Nashville. Now you ha\e had Grants opinion of your great Army, and asmy toast is the Army of the Tennessee, I Avill close by giving youGeneral Grants description of that Amiy when called upon torespond to the same toast at one of our reunions. He said, As anArmy, the Army of the Tennessee never sustained a single defeatduring four years of war. Every fortification which it assailed sur-rendered. Every force arrayed against it was either defeated,captured, or destroyed. No officer was ever assigned to the com-mand of that army who had afterwards to be relieved from it or tobe reduced to another command. Such a historv is not USE OF BLOCK-HOUSES DURINGTHE CIVIL WAR To the Editor of the Army and Navy Journal: I was greatly interested in the communication of CaptainJoubert Eeitz, published in your journal March 21, 1903, giving adescription of the block-house system inaugurated by GeneralIvitchener in the Transvaal War. It was a continuous line ofblock-houses connected by barbed wire, to prevent the Boers crossingthe railway lines, and virtually corralling their forces in certaindistricts until want of food forced them to surrender. CaptainEeitz asserts that the block-house system did more to end the warthan the whole British Army. In the Civil War our block-house system was just as effective,but in another direction. We used it for the purpose of protectingour lines of communication, not as a trocha, or a line connectedwith wire fencing and other obstructions, as used by the British andby the Spaniards in the Cuban War. The British built theirs o
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