Identifier: pictorialhistory00wils (find matches)
Title: The pictorial history of the great Civil War: its causes, origin, conduct and results; embracing full and authentic accounts of its battles by land and sea, with graphic descriptions of heroic deeds achieved by armies and individuals; narratives of personal adventure; thrilling incidents; daring exploits; wonderful escapes; life in camp, field, and hospital; adventures at sea; blockade life, etc., etc.; containing carefully prepared biographies of the leading generals and naval commanders of both the North and the South / by John Laird Wilson
Year: 1881 (1880s)
Authors: Wilson, John Laird, 1832-1896
Subjects: United States -- History Civil War, 1861-1865
Publisher: New York : Bryan, Taylor
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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ammunition were all but ex-hausted, he deemed it prudent to retire.Not considering it safe to fall back bytlie road he had come, he Ietreated byway of Salem, hotly pursued by theenemj. At Meadow Bridge, he ex-pected to find abundant supplies; foronly a few days before. Crook and Ave-rill had left at that place 1,500,000Iations, in charge of two Ohio regi-ments. The place had been set upon bya band of guerrillas; and rations andmen liad equally disappeared. It wasnot until the 27th, nine days after hisretreat from Lynchbuig, five days afterhe had visited Meadow Bridge, thatHunter obtained rations for his troops.They had suffered terribly; but theyhad inflicted vast injury on the Con-federates, by the destruction of foun-dries, factories, mills and other prop-erty. Such were the results of theco-operative movements under Butleron the one hand, and under Sigel andHunter on the other. They weakenedthe South; but they were not other-wise of any immediate practical benefitto General Grant.
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f TB THE NEW YOI^PUBLIC LIBRARY ASTOB, LENOX ANDTILOEN FOUNDATIONS GRANT AT THE NORTH ANNA. 693 We now return to the army of tbePotomac. We left it at SpottsylvaniaCourt House, about to resume itsmarch towards Richmond. The move-ment was commenced about midnight,May Of the 2()th. Hancock led the20. way, with Torberts cavalry inadvance. Moving first eastward as faras Mattaponax Church, under cover ofthe remaining corps, he tlien turned tothe south and pushed his way to Mil-foid Station, on the Fredericksburgand Richmond railroad, some seventeenmiles south of his point of starting.He crossed the Mattapony at MilfordBridge, from which the enemy had.been dislodged l)y Toiberts cavalry,and about a mile from the river, on aridge of hills, formed his column inline of battle. Lee, no doubt, antici-pated some such movement; and, al-though unwilling to run any risk bystriking his antagonist while executinghis iiank maich, he was not preparedto be outstripped in the race for Rich-mond. As soon a

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