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Title: A personal history of Ulysses S. Grant, and sketch of Schuyler Colfax
Year: 1868 (1860s)
Authors: Richardson, Albert D. (Albert Deane), 1833-1869
Subjects: Grant, Ulysses S. (Ulysses Simpson), 1822-1885 Colfax, Schuyler, 1823-1885
Publisher: Hartford, Conn., American Publishing Company San Francisco, Cal., R. J. Trumbull & Co.
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
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e stooping tenderly to kiss the faded, shot-torn colors. Through the entire day this continued, the disarmed menstreaming to the provost-marshals office for their paroles,and then starting for home. Nearly all were penniless.One officer said :—You astonish us with your generosity;another:—I loved the cause, but we are thoroughlybeaten ; now the Stars and Stripes are my flag, and I willbe as true to it as you. Gordon remarked:— This isbitterly humiliating to me; but I console myself by think-ing that the whole country rejoices at this days work.The redoubtable Henry A. Wise said:—We wont beforgiven; we hate you, and that is the whole of it! Wehave no homes; you have destroyed them. Well,3replied Chamberlain, you should not have challenged us.We expected somebody would get hurt when we camedown here. Farewell the plumed troop, the spirit-stirring drum, theear-piercing fife ! All was quiet along the Potomac. Ham-mering continuously had reduced the granite wall to amass of powder.
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PU1 ry, AST09, LENOX ANDriLOEN FOUNDATIONS. 1865.) Relative Stkength of Grant and Lee. 491 CHAPTER XLI. THE ASSASSINATION. The respective strength of Grant and Lee, at the begin-ning of the campaign of 1864, has already been given (pages411-12). On the thirtieth of June, 1864, at the close of twomonths of terrible fighting. Grant, after detaching the SixthCorps and two divisions of Sheridans cavalry to meet Early,had left confronting Lee, present for duty equipped :— Army of the Potomac 54,712 men Army of the James 30,583 Total 85,295 Lee having sent away his Second (Earlys, late Ewell s)Army Corps, had remaining on Grants front, according tohis field return of June thirtieth, 1864 :— Present for duty 54,751 men This was exclusive of Dearings brigade of Fitz HughLees division of cavalry on duty near Petersburg, butomitted from the return. It shows Lees force to have beenmuch larger than he has generally been credited with. On the twentieth of March, 1865, Grants entire forces be-f

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