MOVEMENT AGAINST RICHMOND ON THE NORTH BANK OF THE JAMES CAPTURE OF FORT HARRISON-CO-OPER- ATIVE MOVEMENT ON THE LEFT, BY WHICH THAT FLANK IS EXTENDED TO PEEBLES'S FARM-MOVE- MENTS AGAINST OUR RIGHT ON THE NORTH BANK OF THE JAMES - MOVEMENT TO TURN LEE'S RIGHT FLANK AND OCCUPY THE SOUTH SIDE RAILROAD— 284 THE WINTER OF 1864-65-MOVEMENT TO BREAK UP THE WAGON-TRAIN ROUTE OF SUPPLY FROM HICKSFORD, ON THE WELDON RAILROAD, TO PETERSBURG, AND EXTENSION OF OUR INTRENCHMENTS TO HATCHER'S RUN-THE CAPTURE AND RECAPTURE OF FORT STED- MAN-PREPARATIONS TO MOVE AGAINST LEE'S RIGHT MOVEMENT TO TURN LEE'S RIGHT - ACTIONS OF WHITE OAK RIDGE AND DINWIDDIE COURT HOUSE-THE BAT- TLE OF FIVE FORKS-LEE'S INTRENCHMENTS WEST OF PETERSBURG CARRIED-HE ABANDONS THE RICH- MOND AND PETERSBURG LINES, AND RETREATS TO- 322 SAILOR'S CREEK-RETREAT CONTINUED DURING THE NIGHT-HALTS NEAR FARMVILLE-CORRESPONDENCE BETWEEN GRANT AND LEE-SURRENDER OF LEE AT 373 LIST OF MAPS. The maps are placed at the end of this volume. VIRGINIA BETWEEN WASHINGTON AND RICHMOND. THE WILDERNESS. SPOTTSYLVANIA COURT HOUSE. ΤΟΤΟΡΟΤΟΜΟΥ. COLD HARBOR. NORTH ANNA. BERMUDA HUNDRED. RICHMOND. PETERSBURG. GENERAL MAP OF THE FIELD OF OPERATIONS. THE VIRGINIA CAMPAIGN OF '64 AND '65. CHAPTER I. THE POSITION OF THE ARMY OF THE POTOMAC AND OF THE ARMY OF NORTHERN VIRGINIA IN THE SPRING OF 1864-THE REORGANIZATION OF THE ARMY OF THE POTOMAC-GENERAL PLAN OF OPERATIONS FOR THE CAMPAIGN-THE MOVEMENT BY THE LEFT FLANK DECIDED ON-THE COMPOSITION AND NUMBERS OF THE TWO ARMIES. In the Spring of 1864 the Army of the Potomac lay between the Rapidan and the Rappahannock. The infantry was posted chiefly in the vicinity of Culpeper Court House covering the roads leading from Lee's position, the First and Third Corps about two miles in advance of the Court House, the Second Corps near Stevensburg, the Sixth Corps near Welford's Ford, on Hazel River, and the Fifth Corps guarding the railroad from the Rappahannock River back to Bristoe Station, near Manassas Junction. The Ninth Corps, under General Burnside, began to relieve the Fifth Corps from this duty on April 25th, and between the 1st and 3d of May encamped along the railroad from Manassas Junction to Rappahannock Station. The main body of the cavalry of the Army of the Potomac was about two miles in front of the First Corps, the other part of it near Stevensburg. A chain of infantry |