Lee's Last Campaign

Lee's Last Campaign

Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1865, by WM. B. SMITH & COMPANY. in the Clerks Office of the District Court of the United States for the District of Pamlico, North Carolina. The Condition of the Army of Northern Virginia in its Last DaysThe Lines in Front of PetersburgThe Battles Around the CityThe Final StruggleTerrible FightingThe Assaults on Forts Mahone and GreggThrilling ScenesThe Main Bodies of Both Armies Stand and Look Anxiously OnThe Confederate Army SeveredThe Evacuation of Richmond and PetersburgThe Greetings of Petersburg Ladies to the Retreating ColumnsThe Retreat and Pursuit to Appomattox Court House. hen I returned to my command in the early part of March, after a long absence as a prisoner, I was greatly depressed at the sad state of feeling in which I found almost the whole army.The buoyant, hopeful tone that animated them during the bloody and heroic struggles in the Wilderness, and at Spotsylvania, was gone. The men who followed the immortal Jackson in his historic and eventful campaigns, and endured every fatigue and[Pg 6] hardship without a murmur, in the full hope of eventual victory, were dejected, crestfallen and despondent. The wear and tear of a continuous campaign from the Rappahannoc to the James, and the disasters of the Valley struggle of the previous fall, together with the continuous marching and counter-marching on their present lines, without rest and with short rations, were telling upon their hardy natures. Longstreets veterans, who had followed their old leader from the ensanguined fields of Virginia to Chicamauga and East Tennessee, and who had again been forwarded to their old fields of conflict, were thinned in numbers, and had lost much of the fierce fire of pluck that characterised them of old. ......Buy Now (To Read More)

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Ebook Number: 31566
Author: Gorman, J. C. (John C.)
Release Date: Mar 9, 2010
Format: eBook
Language: English