. The photographic history of the Civil War : in ten volumes . COPHIGmT, 1^11, REMEA OF REVIEWS CO. SPOTSYLVANIA COLTRT HOUSE WHERE GRANT WANTED TO FIGHT IT OUt For miles around this quaint old village-pump surged the lines of two vast con-tending armies. May 8-l2, 1804. In this picture of only a few months later, theinhabitants have returned to their accustomed quiet, although the reverberationsof battle have hardly died away. But on ^lay 7th Generals Grant and Meade,with their , had started toward the little courthouse. As they passed alongthe Brock Road in the rear of Hancocks lines,
. The photographic history of the Civil War : in ten volumes . COPHIGmT, 1^11, REMEA OF REVIEWS CO. SPOTSYLVANIA COLTRT HOUSE WHERE GRANT WANTED TO FIGHT IT OUt For miles around this quaint old village-pump surged the lines of two vast con-tending armies. May 8-l2, 1804. In this picture of only a few months later, theinhabitants have returned to their accustomed quiet, although the reverberationsof battle have hardly died away. But on ^lay 7th Generals Grant and Meade,with their , had started toward the little courthouse. As they passed alongthe Brock Road in the rear of Hancocks lines, the men broke into loud saw that the movement was still to be southward. But chance had causedLee to choose the same objective. Misinterpreting Grants movement as a retreatupon Fredericksburg, he sent Longstrcets corps, now commanded by Anderson,to Spotsylvania. Chance again, in the form of a forest fire, drove Anderson tomake, on the night of May 7th, the march from the Wilderness that he had beenordered to commence on the morning of the 8th.
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