. The photographic history of the Civil War : in ten volumes . battery looks straight across the low-lying country to Petersburg. Its spires show in the distance. The smilingcountry is now to be a field of blood and suffering. For Grants army, unperceived, has swung around from Cold Harbor, and theConfederate cause was lost when Grant crossed the James, declared the Southern General Ewell. It was a mighty and a masterfulmove, practicable only because of the tremendous advantages the Federals held in the undisputed possession of the waterways, thetremendous fleet of steamers, barges, and river
. The photographic history of the Civil War : in ten volumes . battery looks straight across the low-lying country to Petersburg. Its spires show in the distance. The smilingcountry is now to be a field of blood and suffering. For Grants army, unperceived, has swung around from Cold Harbor, and theConfederate cause was lost when Grant crossed the James, declared the Southern General Ewell. It was a mighty and a masterfulmove, practicable only because of the tremendous advantages the Federals held in the undisputed possession of the waterways, thetremendous fleet of steamers, barges, and river craft that made a change of base and transportation easy. Petersburg became theobjective of the great army under Grant. His movements to get there had not been heralded; they worked like well-oiled machinery. Where is Grant. frantically asked Beauregard of Lee. The latter, by his despatches, shows that he could not answer with anycertainty. In fact, up to the evening of the 13th of June, when the Second Corps, the advance of the .\rmy of the Potomac, reached. COPYRIGHT. 191 1 REVIEW OF REVIEWS CO. 11EA\ V ARTILLERY JLST ARRIN LU IJKlORE IETERSULRG—1864the north bank of the James, Lee could not learn the truth. By midnight of the 15th, bridges were constructed, and following theSecond Corps, the Ninth began to cross. But already the Fifth and Sixth Corps and part of the Army of the James were on theirway by water from White House to City Point. The Petersburg campaign had begun. Lees army drew its life from the great fieldsand stock regions south and southwest of Richmond. With the siege of Petersburg, the railroad center of the state, this source ofsupi)ly was more and more cut off, until six men were made to live on the allowance first given to each separate Southern three to one in efficient men, with the cold of winter coming on and its attendant hardships in prospect, nowonder the indomitable Southern bravery was tried to the utmost. Sherman was advanc
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