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Title: The life and campaigns of Lieut.-Gen. U. S. Grant, from his boyhood to the surrender of Lee
Year: 1866 (1860s)
Authors: Headley, P. C. (Phineas Camp), 1819-1903
Subjects: Grant, Ulysses S. (Ulysses Simpson), 1822-1885
Publisher: New York, The Derby and Miller publishing co.
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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Union could everbe overthrown, and a Southern Confederacy established. On Sabbath morning, April 2d, 1865, amidst the roar ofartillery, and the crash, and flame, and smoke of burninghouses, the great rebellion died. Richmond and Petersburgwere captured. Hundreds of guns, and thousands of pris-oners taken. Lees army shattered, broken, and scattered tothe four winds ! This is the history of the day. The turni ngpoint of the magnificent movement was the battle fought bySheridan at Five Porks Saturday afternoon, with his cavalryand the Fifth Corps. The battle was, practically, Long-streets ruin. Fifty-seven hundred prisoners and threebatteries of artillery were the material trophies of thevictory, but the moral results were of far greater impor-tance. Our loss in the battle was severe. The only gene-ral officer lost was Brevet Brigadier-General Winthrop,commanding the First Brigade of General Ayerss divisionof the Fifth Corps; one of those chivalrous soldiers NewEngland sent into the war.
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THE FALL OF THE REBEL CAPITAL. 541 The battle was fought and won in Sheridans accus-tomed style. Custer, Devins, and Davis, of the cavalry-corps, Griffin, Avers, Crawford, and Bartlett, of the FifthCorps, won new laurels in the fight, and the enemy wasdriven pell-mell from his last Virginia battle-field, withheavy loss in killed and wounded. Longstreet, after his defeat, fled, first north and thenwestward, probably with the hope to effect a junction withJohnston in North Carolina. Going from their right to left, the three divisions ofHills corps were holding the line from the Boydtown roadbelow Burgesss Mill, to opposite the centre of the SixthCorps, where it joined with Gordon, who held from thatpoint around Petersburg to the Appomattox River. Time now became the essential element of the situation,and, to fully comprehend the rapid changes that followed,it is necessary to bear in mind not days, but hours andminutes. The prompt and vigorous pursuit of General Leesflying and broken ran

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