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mac, 91 ; consolidation of divisions and ar- 

 rangement of brigades, 91; assignment of 

 general officers, 91 ; commanders of divisions, 

 92; officers relieved, 92; address of General 

 Pleasanton, 92 ; do. of General Newton, 92 ; 

 do. of General French, 92; staff of Lieuten- 

 antrGeneral Grant, 93 ; Burnside's command, 

 93; Sigel's command, 93; General Butler's 

 command, 93 ; tender of a hundred thousand 

 men by Western Governors, 93 ; letter of Gov- 

 ernor Yates stating the reasons, 93 ; address 

 of the Governor of Indiana, 94; do. Adju- 

 tant-General of Ohio, 94; plans of General 

 Grant, 94; address of General Meade to his 

 troops, 94 ; army breaks camp and advances, 

 95 ; Rappahannock crossed, 95 ; Burnside's 

 address to his troops, 96 ; his corps acts as a 

 reserve, 96 ; purposes of General Grant in his 

 advance, 96 ; movement of General Lee, 96 ; 

 General Griffin encounters the enemy, 96 ; at- 

 tempt of the enemy to press between the Fifth 

 and Second Corps, 97; advance of General 

 Sedgwick, 97; dispatch of General Lee, 97; 

 Burnside brought on the field, 97; battle of 

 the next day, 97, 98 ; position of both armies 

 at night, 98 ; station of the cavalry, 98 ; the 

 contest on the next morning, 98 ; both armies 

 begin to withdraw, 98; dispatch of General 

 Lee, 98 ; fight of Fifth Corps with the enemy 

 on the next afternoon near Spottsylvania 

 Court-House, 98 ; death of General Sedgwick, 

 99; dispatches of Secretary Stanton relative 

 to the preceding actions, 99, 100 ; address of 

 President Lincoln, 100; excitement in the 

 Northern States, 100; serenade to President 

 Lincoln, 100 ; speech, 100 ; thanksgiving ob- 

 servance in the Northern States, 100; dis- 

 patch of the Secretary of War, 100 ; position 

 of General Grant's army, 101 ; do. of the ene- 

 my, 101; renewed struggle, 101; dispatches 

 of the Secretary of War, 101 ; quiet next day, 

 101 ; assault and captures by General Han- 

 cock early on the next morning, 102; battle 

 all next day, 102 ; losses, 102 ; withdrawal of 

 the enemy on the left, 102; congratulatory 

 address of General Meade to his troops, 102 ; 

 address of General Lee to his army, 103 ; dis- 

 patches of the Secretary of War, 103, 104; 

 reinforcements to General Grant, 103 ; dispo- 

 sal of the wounded, 104 ; strength of the Army 

 of the Potomac, 104. 



Movements cooperating with General Grant, 

 104; cavalry raid sent by General Grant to 



cut Lee's communications, 104, 105 ; move- 

 ments against Lynchburg, 105; advance of 

 General Averill, 105 ; encounter with the ene- 

 my, 105 ; falls back, 105 ; address of General 

 Averill, 105 ; advance of General Crook, 106 ; 

 repulses the enemy, 106 ; falls back, 106 ; 

 General Sigel's movements in the Shenan- 

 doah Valley, 106; defeated by Breckinridge, 

 106; movement of General Butler up the 

 James River, 106; dispatch of General But- 

 ler, 108 ; attempts to cut the railroads to Pe- 

 tersburg and Richmond, 108 ; encounter with 

 the enemy, 108 ; attack on the Danville road, 

 110; attack on the outer lines of Fort Dar- 

 ling, 110; the contest, 110; General Butler 

 retires to his intrenchments, 111 ; dispatch of 

 the Secretary of War, 111 ; expedition of 

 General Kautz against the Danville Railroad, 

 111 ; occupation of the naval forces removing 

 torpedoes, 112 ; attack of General Butler on 

 Richmond & Petersburg Railroad, 112. 



Concentration of the enemy under Lee, 113 ; 

 attempt to turn the right of Grant's line, 

 113 ; failure, 113 ; address of General Meade, 

 113; dispatch of the Secretary of War, 113; 

 new movement of General Grant by the left, 

 113 ; dispatches of the Secretary of War, 113 ; 

 Grant's advance reaches the North Anna Riv- 

 er, 114 ; position of his forces, 114 ; encounter 

 the enemy, 114 ; position of armies on the next 

 day, 115 ; new movement by General Grant, 

 115; Pamunkey crossed, 115; position of his 

 army, 115 ; new position of the enemy, 115 ; 

 reinforcements to General Grant from General 

 Butler, 116; conflict at Coal Harbor, 116; at- 

 tempt of General Grant to push the enemy 

 across the Chickahominy, 118 ; its failure, 118 ; 

 losses, 118 ; dispatches of the Secretary of War, 

 118; positions of the armies, 119; intrench- 

 ments of both armies, 119 ; preparations of 

 General Grant for crossing the James, 119 ; 

 river crossed, 119. 



Movement of General Butler upon Peters- 

 burg, 119 ; failure, 120 ; Petersburg, 120 ; 

 another attack made by the Eighteenth Corps 

 a few days later, 120 ; enemy reenforced, 120 ; 

 contest before the city, 120 ; arrival of other 

 corps, 120; contest before Petersburg, 120, 

 121 ; loss, 121 ; skirmishing on the next day, 

 121 ; quiet, 121 ; movement on the Weldon 

 road, 121 ; a battle, 123 ; movement to the 

 left, 123 ; demonstration in front of Burnside, 

 123 ; cavalry expedition of General Wilson, 



