Cannot be persisted in uniformly. — Cold Harbor. — Assault necessary. Battle.-Losses. - Lee's Army. - Its Weakness com- pared with its Former Strength. - Question of its Morale. — Army transferred to the South Side of the James. Why Lee did not prevent it. Movement described. Commended. - Mode of Execution. - Pontoon Bridge. -Attack on Petersburg. - Responsibility for its Fail- ure discussed. — Grant's Account.-Smith's Reasons. -Smith's Re- sponsibilities.Hancock's Participation. - Authorities. - Assault on Petersburg required by Military Considerations. Failure. More of Eclat than Substantial Triumph would have been won by its Success 367 - - - - Author's Design. - Situation and Strategical Importance of Petersburg. tions controlling him. Series of Engagements fought to extend our Line. To destroy the Enemy's Line of Supplies. - A Railroad Raid. -Operations on the Weldon Road. Sheridan's superb Sweep. - Operations at Deep Bottom.-Explosion of a Mine.- · Correlated Ex- peditions a Failure until Sheridan commands in the Shenandoah Valley. Sherman's Correspondent.-Lee's Expedients. - Diversion to Washington.-Arming of Negroes. -Intended Abandonment of his Lines. Grant's famous Order for the Spring Campaign.. Posi- tion of the Army Corps.-Lee concentrates on his own Right. — Falls upon Warren. - Repelled. - Enemy driven into their Fortifica- tions. Sheridan seizes Five Forks. - Lee attacks Sheridan.- Drives him back to Dinwiddie. - Behavior of Sheridan according to Grant. Calendar.- Sheridan re-enforced. -Brilliant Action at Five Forks. - Sheridan's Part.-Fifth Corps' Part. - Cannonade opens. -Assault in the Morning.-Charge of Parke. — Of Wright, — Of Humphreys.-Three Corps join. - Last Fight, and Death of Hill. — President Lincoln at City Point.-Davis in Richmond. - Receives Effect upon Davis. -Scene in Richmond during the Afternoon. At Night. — The City Council. - Their Determina- - -- - - Ord's Line. - Lee struck at Jetersville. - Chase changed to a Hunt.-Ewell surrenders. renders. Interview between the Commanders. - Terms of Surrender. Wilderness Campaign unparalleled. Critics on Grant's Methods. - Grant. Responsibilities elsewhere. What did he do in the Civil - - Sound Reason in it.- No Difference in Theory between Civil Administration and Successful Management of an Grant opposed. — Correspondence. — Com- ments on the Terms offered to Lee.- Pollard's Account of Grant's Behavior. Feeling throughout the North after the Surrender of Lee. -Stanton's Order. — Opportunity offered to Grant. — His Noble - Account of it.-Attempt on Seward's Life. Complicity of the Rebel Government. - Implacable Indigna- Sherman. Advises another Interview. -Johnston surrenders. - dition. Grant issues a Farewell Order to the Troops. - Disbands Bill to revive the Grade of General. mittee. Object of the Bill. The Rank of Washington. - Grant the first General. - Bill passed. - Remarks of Mr. Finck. — Of Mr. Le Blond. Of Mr. Rogers.- Of Mr. Raymond. — Of Mr. Delano. Grant supervising Military Operations in Re- bellious States. - Report of Gen. Sheridan. - Of Gen. Jeff. C. Davis. of Sheridan. -Appointed Secretary of War. - Recapitulation. - Mental and Moral Characteristics of Grant. - Improved by Nurture. -To be judged by his Actions, not his Words. — Quotation from 2 LIFE OF GENERAL GRANT. CHAPTER I. BIRTH. PARENTAGE. — CHILDHOOD. [1822-1838.] HE life of the man who saved the nation's life by vanquishing rebellion and destroying a rival confederacy will never lose its hold upon the attention and interest of his countrymen. Where was he born? what were his childhood and youth? how was he educated? what previous military discipline and experience prepared him for the task? what did he actually do in the civil war?-are questions upon the lips of all men. These questions I shall attempt to answer. His personal characteristics, bearing, look, and habits, his moral principles and practice, his mental capacity and accomplishments, will be themes of speculation and inquiry by future generations, as by the present. This curiosity I will endeavor to satisfy. We profess here to despise blood and lineage; but no aristocracy is more inquisitive respecting the pedi |