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Title: History of the American Civil War
Year: 1873 (1870s)
Authors: Draper, John William, 1811-1882
Subjects: United States -- History Civil War, 1861-1865
Publisher: New York, Harper
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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field. When night came, the angle of those workswhere the fire had been hottest, and from which the enemyhad been finally driven, had a spectacle for whoever caredto look that would never have enticed his gaze again.Men in hundreds, killed and wounded together, were piledin hideous heaps—some bodies, that had lain for hours un-der the concentric fire of the battle, being perforated withwounds. The writhing of wounded beneath the deadmoved these masses at times; at times a lifted arm or aquivering limb told of an agony not quenched by the Letheof death around. Bitter fruit this; a dear price it seemedto pay for the capture of a salient angle of an enemys in-trenched work, even though that enemys loss was terrible. The rain which had set in on the 11th continued falling,and the roads became very heavy; on the Grant moves _, , , , ^ . . tmvani the 1 ,)th, lotii, and 17th thev were in such a con- NorthAnua, ,. . , . J clition that offensive operations had to be sus- Spottsyivahia C. II.
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THE CAMPAIGN OF GRANT. Chap. LXXXII.J THE NORTH ANNA. 3gl pendecl. Grant waited until the 19th for re-enforcementsfrom Washington; the number he received made up for allhis losses. Deeming it impracticable to make any fartherattack on the position at Spottsylvania, he gave orders fora movement to the North Anna, to commence at midnighton the 19th. Late in the afternoon of that day Ewellscorps came out of the works against Grants extreme rightflank, but was repulsed with heavy loss. This delayedthe movement to the North Anna until the night of the21st. Again Lee, having the shorter line and the bestroads, reached the North Anna first, and took position be-hind it. When Grant arrived at the railroad crossing over thestream on the 23d, he ordered Warren, whose corps wason the right, to cross at Jericho. This was done, and theenemy driven back nearly to the Virginia Central Rail-road. Lee now attacked Warren very violently, and for ashort time with success; eventually, however, he was re-

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