IV. Co-operative Movements on the James and in the Shenandoah Val-

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V. From Spottsylvania to the Chickahominy

VI. The Battle of Cold Harbor ....

VII. Observations on the Overland Campaign...

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IV. The Mine Fiasco

V. Lee's Diversion

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VI. Summer and Autumn Operations against Petersburg and Richmond. 529

VII. Observations on the Siege of Petersburg

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Map of Country around Petersburg and Richmond....
Map of Final Operations......

CITY OF NEW

CAMPAIGNS

OF THE

ARMY OF THE POTOMAC.

THE ARMY OF THE POTOMAC IN HISTORY.

So soon as the passionate rushing to arms that strceceded the bombardment and fall of Fort Sumter had indicated that a great war was upon the sundered sections of the American Union, it became manifest that Virginia was marked out as the principal theatre of the impending conflict. The tidings of what had happened in the harbor of Charleston found that State assembled at Richmond in high debate on the question of Secession; and then whatever there was in its councils of what men called "Unionism" or conservatism was hushed, and in wild tumult Virginia was voted out of the Union and into the Confederacy.

This, Virginia voted on the 16th of April, 1861; but from her eyes was hid what else she voted-to wit, a war destined to redden all her streams, to desolate her fertile fields, to cut off the flower of her young men, and to leave her at its close prostate and impoverished.

When Virginia linked her destiny with the Confederacy, those who controlled the Secession revolution signified their appreciation of the accession of that ancient and powerful Commonwealth by transferring to her chief city the capital of