. Book of the Royal blue . ed Lee nearly twoto one, and he marched directly for Lees army, fought the desperate and bloodybattles in the Wilderness, which would havedeposed a Union general in disgrace twoyears before because of the terrible sacri-fice of life, but the only word that camefrom Grant on that appalling battlefieldwas: I propose to fight it out on this lineif it takes all summer. Sadly as thecountry grieved over its fallen soldiers inthe Wilderness, it saw in Grants dispatchthe assurance that Lees army would cer-tainly be destroyed. It was the mostdestructive campaign of the war, b
. Book of the Royal blue . ed Lee nearly twoto one, and he marched directly for Lees army, fought the desperate and bloodybattles in the Wilderness, which would havedeposed a Union general in disgrace twoyears before because of the terrible sacri-fice of life, but the only word that camefrom Grant on that appalling battlefieldwas: I propose to fight it out on this lineif it takes all summer. Sadly as thecountry grieved over its fallen soldiers inthe Wilderness, it saw in Grants dispatchthe assurance that Lees army would cer-tainly be destroyed. It was the mostdestructive campaign of the war, but,whether wisely or unwisely. Grant neverdeparted from his purpose to fight theenemy wherever he was found. Had hefailed in his campaign he would have beenseverely criticised and hopelessly con-demned, but after a year of terrible sus-pense he closed the war at Appomattox,and the surrender of Lee effaced everyerror of the aggressive warrior, and madehim accepted by the country and the worldas the great captain of the uKTTYbBLKU -NATIONAL LKMKTEKY. (See pafc-e 11.)
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