Rosecrans himself wired that he had met with a terrible disaster. The White House sent him words of cheer. The Confederate Commander, General Bragg, rapidly closed in and began to lay siege to Chattanooga, and the defeated Federal army were put on short rations3.
The President turned his eyes now from Meade and his army of the Potomac which Lee's strategy had completely baffled and gave his first thought to the armies of the West. He sent Sherman hurrying from the Mississippi to Rosecrans' relief and Hooker from the East. In the place of Rosecrans he promoted George H. Thomas, whose gallant5 stand had saved the army from annihilation and won the title, "The Rock of Chickamauga." And most important of all he placed in supreme6 command of the forces in Tennessee the silent man whom his patience and faith had saved to the Nation, the conqueror7 of Vicksburg—Ulysses S. Grant.
On November the 24th and 25th, the new Commander raised the siege of Chattanooga, and drove Bragg's army from Missionary8 Ridge9 and Lookout10 Mountain back into Georgia.
At last the President had found the man of genius for whom he had long searched. Grant was summoned to Washington and given command of all the armies of the United States East and West.
The new General at once placed William Tecumseh Sherman at the head of an army of a hundred thousand men at Chattanooga for the purpose of reinvading Georgia, sent General Butler with forty thousand up the Peninsula against Richmond along the line of McClellan's old march, raised the Army of the Potomac to one hundred and forty thousand effective fighters, took command in person and faced General Lee on the banks of the Rapidan but a few miles from the old ground in the Wilderness11 around Chancellorsville where Hooker's men had baptized the earth in heroic blood the year before.
Grant's army was the flower of Northern manhood and with its three hundred and eighteen great field guns the best equipped body of fighting men ever brought together on our continent. His baggage train was over sixty miles long and would have stretched the entire distance to Richmond.
By the spring of 1864 when he reached the Rapidan Lee's army had been recruited again to its normal strength of sixty-two thousand.
A great religious revival12 swept the Southern camps during the winter and its meetings lasted into the spring almost to the hour of the opening guns of the Wilderness campaign. Had whispers from the Infinite reached the souls of the ragged13 men in grey and told them of coming Gethsemane and Calvary?
Certain it is that though Lee's army were ragged and poorly fed their courage was never higher, their faith in their Commander never more sublime14 than in those beautiful spring mornings in April when they burnished15 their bayonets to receive Grant's overwhelming host.
The Chaplain of Ned Vaughan's regiment16 was leading a prayer meeting in the moonlight. An earnest brother was praying fervently17 for more manhood, and more courage.
A ragged Confederate kneeling nearby didn't like the drift of his petition and his patience gave out. He raised his head and called.
"Say, hold on there, brother! You're getting that prayer all wrong. We don't need no more courage—got so much now we're skeered of ourselves sometimes. What we need is provisions. Ask the Lord to send us something to eat. That's what we want now——"
The leader took the interruption in good spirit and added an eloquent18 request for at least one good meal a day if the Lord in his goodness and mercy could spare it.
No persimmon tree was ever stripped without the repetition of their old joke. They all knew the words by heart,
"Don't eat those persimmons—they're not good for you!"
"I know it, man, I'm just doin' it to pucker19 my stomach to fit my rations!"
Ned was passing the door of a cabin in which a prayer meeting of officers was being held. He was walking with his Colonel who was fond of a sip4 of corn whiskey at times. He was slightly deaf.
The leader of the meeting called from the door:
"Won't you join us in prayer, Colonel?"
"Thank you, no, I've just had a little!" he answered innocently.
Ned roared and the brethren inside the cabin joined the laugh.
No body of men of any race ever marched to death with calmer faith than those ragged lines of grey now girding their loins for the fiercest, bloodiest20 struggle in the annals of the world.
Lee allowed Grant to cross the Rapidan unopposed and penetrate21 the tangled22 wilds of the Wilderness. The Southerner knew that in these dense23 woods the effectiveness of his opponent's superior numbers would be vastly reduced. Longstreet's corps24 had not yet arrived from Gordonsville where he had been sent to obtain food, and he must concentrate his forces.
The days were oppressively hot, as the men in blue tramped through the forest aisles25 of the vast Virginia jungle—a maze26 of trees, underbrush and dense foliage27. A pall28 of ominous29 silence hung over this labyrinth30 of desolation, broken only by the chirp31 of bluebird or the distant call of the yellowhammer.
Not waiting for the arrival of Longstreet on his forced march from Gordonsville, Lee suddenly threw the half of his army on Grant's advancing men with savage32 energy. Their march was halted and through every hour of the day and far into the night the fierce conflict raged. As darkness fell the Confederates had pushed the blue lines back, captured four guns and a number of prisoners.
But Longstreet had not come and Lee's army of barely forty thousand men were in a dangerous position before Grant's legions.
Both Generals renewed the fight at daylight. The Federals attacked Lee's entire line with terrific force. Just as the Confederate right wing was being crushed and rolled back in disorder33, Longstreet reached the field and threw his men into the breach34. Lee himself rode to the front to lead the charge and re?stablish his yielding lines.
From a thousand throats rose the cry:
"Lee to the rear!"
"Go back, General Lee!"
"This is no place for you!"
"We'll settle this!"
The men refused to move until their Commander had withdrawn35. And then with their fierce yell they charged and swept the field.
Lee repeated the brilliant achievement of Jackson at Chancellorsville. Longstreet was sent around Hancock's left to turn and assail37 his flank. The movement was a complete success. Hancock's line was smashed and driven back a mile to his second defenses.
General Wadsworth at the head of his division was mortally wounded and fell into the hands of the on-sweeping Confederates. Just as the movement had reached the moments of its triumph which would have crumpled38 Grant's army in confusion back on the banks of the river, Longstreet fell dangerously wounded, struck down by a volley from his own men in exactly the same way and almost in the same spot where Jackson had fallen. General Jenkins, who was with him, was instantly killed.
The charging hosts were halted by the change of Commanders and the movement failed of its big purpose, though at sunset General John B. Gordon broke through Sedgwick's union lines, rolled back his right flank, drove him a mile from his entrenchments and captured six hundred prisoners with two brigadier generals.
The mysterious fate which had pursued the South had once more stricken down a great commander in the moment of victory, and snatched it from his grasp—at Shiloh, Albert Sydney Johnston; at Seven Pines, Joseph E. Johnston; at Chancellorsville, Jackson, and now Longstreet.
Grant in two days lost seventeen thousand six hundred and sixty-six men, a larger number than fell under Hooker when he had retreated in despair. Any other General than Grant, the stolid41 bulldog fighter, would have retreated across the Rapidan to reorganize his bleeding lines.
As one of his Generals rode up the following morning out of the confusion and horror of the night, Grant, chewing on his cigar, waved his right arm with a quick movement:
"It's all right, Wilson; we'll fight again!"
Next day the two armies lay in their trenches42 facing each other in grim silence. Grant determined43 again to turn Lee's right flank and get between him and Richmond.
Lee divined his purpose before a single regiment had begun to march. Spottsylvania Court House lay on his right. The Confederate Commander hurried his advance guard to the spot and lay in wait for his opponent.
The day of the 19th was spent by both armies in adjusting lines and constructing breastworks. These fortifications were made by digging huge ditches and on the top of their banks fastening heavy logs. In front of these, abatis were made by filling the trees and cutting their limbs in such a way that the sharp spikes44 projected toward the breasts of the advancing foe45.
While placing his guns in position General Sedgwick was killed by a sharpshooter's bullet—a commander of high character and fearless courage and loved by every man in his army.
On the morning of the 10th Hancock attempted to turn Lee's rear by crossing the Po. The movement failed and he was recalled with heavy losses under Early's assault as he recrossed the river.
Warren led his division in a determined charge on the Confederate front and they were mowed46 down in hundreds by Longstreet's men behind their entrenchments. They reached the abatis and one man leaped on the breastworks before they fell back in bloody47 confusion. General Rice was mortally wounded in this charge.
On the left of Warren, Colonel Emory Upton charged and broke through the Confederate lines capturing twelve hundred prisoners, but was driven back at last with the loss of a thousand of his men. Grant made him a Brigadier General on the field.
The first day at Spottsylvania ended with a loss of four thousand union men. Lee's losses were less than half that number.
The 11th they paused for breath, and Grant sent his famous dispatch to Washington:
"I propose to fight it out on this line if it takes all summer."
On the morning of the 12th Hancock was ordered to charge at daylight. Lee's lines were spread out in the shape of an enormous letter V. Hancock's task was to capture the angle which formed the key to this position.
In pitch darkness under pouring rain his four divisions under Birney, Mott, Barlow and Gibbon slipped through the mud and crept into position within a few hundred yards of the Confederate breastworks.
As the first streaks48 of dawn pierced the murky50 clouds, without a shot, the solid, silent lines of blue rushed this angle and leaped into the entrenchments before the astounded51 men in grey knew what had happened.
So swift was the blow, so surprising, so overwhelming in numbers, the angle was captured practically without a struggle and the three thousand men within it were forced to surrender with every cannon52, their muskets53, colors and two Generals. It was the most brilliant single achievement of "Hancock the Superb."
Pressing on, Hancock's men advanced against the second series of trenches a half mile beyond. Here the fight really began.
Into their faces poured a terrific volley of musketry and General John B. Gordon led his men in a desperate charge to drive the invaders55 back.
Lee, seeing the dangerous situation, rode to the front with the evident intention of joining in this charge.
Again the cry rang from the hearts of the men who loved him:
"Lee to the rear!"
They refused to move until he was led out of range of the fire. Gordon's men charged and drove the Federal hosts back until at last they stood against the entrenchments they had captured. Reinforcements now poured in from both sides and the fighting became indescribable in its mad desperation. Thousands of men in blue and men in grey fought face to face and hand to hand. Muskets blazed in one another's eyes and blew heads off. The dead were piled in rows four and five deep, blue and grey locked in each other's arms. The trenches were filled with the dead and cleared of bodies again and again to make room for the living until they in turn were thrown out.
Ned Vaughan saw a grey color-bearer's arm shot away at the shoulder, the quivering flesh smeared56 with mud, stained with powder and filled with the shreds57 of his grey sleeve—and yet, without blenching58, he grasped his colors with the other hand and swept on into the jaws59 of this flaming hell at the head of his men. The rain of musketry fire against the trees came to Ned's ears in low undertone like the rattle60 of myriads61 of hail stones on the roof of a house.
A grey soldier was fighting a duel62 to the death with a magnificently dressed officer in blue, bare bayonet against bare sword. The soldier, with a sudden plunge63, ran his opponent through. With a shudder64, Ned looked to see if it were John.
A company of men in blue were caught and cut off by a grey wave and were trying to surrender. Their officers with drawn36 revolvers refused to let them.
"Shoot your officers!" a grey man shouted. In a moment every Commander dropped and the men were marched to the rear.
Hour after hour the flames of hell swirled65 in an endless whirlwind around this "Bloody Angle." Battle line after battle line rushed in never to return. Ned saw an oak tree two feet in diameter gnawed66 down by musket54 balls. It fell with a crash, killing67 and wounding a number of men.
Color-bearers waved their flags in each other's faces, clinched68 and fought like demons69. Two soldiers, their ammunition70 spent, choked each other to death on top of the entrenchment40 and rolled down its banks among the torn and mangled71 bodies that filled the ditch.
In the edge of this red whirlwind Ned Vaughan saw a grim man in grey standing72 beside a tree using two guns. His wounded comrade loaded one while he took deliberate aim and fired the other. With each crack of his musket a man in blue was falling.
In the centre of this mass of struggling maniacs73 the men were fighting with gun swabs, handspikes, clubbed muskets, stones and fists.
The night brought no rest, no pause to succor75 the wounded or bury the dead. Through the black murk of the darkness they fought on and on until at last the men who were living sank in their tracks at three o'clock before day and neither line had given from this "Bloody Angle."
The rain ceased to fall, the clouds lifted and the waning76 moon came out.
Ned Vaughan passing over the outer field saw a long line of men lying in regular ranks in an odd position. He turned to the Commander.
"Why don't you move that line of battle now to make it conform to your own?"
"They're all dead men," was the quiet answer. "They are Georgia soldiers."
John Vaughan, on the other side, crossing an open space, came on a blue battle line asleep rank on rank, skirmishers in front and battle line behind, all asleep on their arms. There was no one near to answer a question. They were all dead.
The blue and grey men were talking to one another now.
"Well, Johnnie," a Yankee called through the shadows, "I can't admit that you're inspired of God, but after to-day I must say that you are possessed77 of the devil."
"Same to you, Yank! Your papers say we're all demoralized anyhow—so to-morrow you oughtn't have no trouble finishin' us!"
"Ah, shut up now, Johnnie, and go to sleep!"
"All right, good-night, Yank, hope ye'll rest well. We'll give ye hell at daylight!"
For five days Grant swung his blue lines in circles of blood trying in vain to break Lee's ranks and gave it up. He had lost at Spottsylvania eighteen thousand more men. The stolid, silent man of iron nerves was terribly moved by the frightful78 losses his gallant army had sustained. He watched with anguish79 the endless lines of wagons80 bearing his stricken men from the field. Lee's forces had been handled with such consummate81 and terrible skill, his crushing numbers had made little impression.
Grant was facing a new force in the world. The ordinary methods of war which he had used with success in the West went here for nothing. The devotion of Lee's men was a mania74. Small as his army was the bulldog fighter saw with amazement82 that it was practically unconquerable in a square, hand-to-hand struggle.
Once more he was forced to maneuver83 for advantage in position. He ordered a new flank movement by the North Anna River.
He had opened his fight with Lee on the 5th, and in two weeks he had lost thirty-six thousand men, without gaining an inch in the execution of his original plan of thrusting himself between the Confederate leader and his Capital. Lee's army was apparently84 as terrible a fighting machine as on the day they had met.
A truce85 now followed to bury the dead and care for the wounded. So sure had Grant been of crushing his opponent he had refused to agree to this during the struggle.
They found them piled six layers deep in the trenches, blue and grey, blue and grey. Black wings were spread over the top with red beaks86 tearing at eyes and lips while deep down below, yet groaned87 and moved the living wounded.
God of Love and Pity, draw the veil over the scene! No pen can tell its story—no heart endure to hear it.
The stop was brief. Already the cavalry88 were skirmishing for the next position.
Again the keen eye of Lee had divined his enemy's purpose. By a shorter road his men had reached the North Anna before Grant. When the union leader arrived on the scene he found the position of his advance division dangerous and quickly withdrew with the loss of two thousand men.
Once more he determined to turn Lee's flank and hurled89 his army toward Cold Harbor. This time he reached his chosen ground before his opponent and on the 31st, Sheridan's cavalry took possession of the place. The two armies had rushed for this point in waving parallel lines, flashing at each other death-dealing volleys as they touched.
Both armies immediately began to entrench39 in their chosen positions. Lee, familiar with his ground, had chosen his position with consummate skill. On June the 1st, the preliminary attack was made at six o'clock in the afternoon. It was short and bloody. The Northern division under Smith and Wright charged and lost two thousand two hundred men in an hour.
Again Lee had placed his guns and infantry90 in a fiery91 crescent on the hills arranged to catch both flanks and front of an advancing army.
Grant's soldiers knew that grim work had been cut out for them on that fatal morning the third day of June. As John Vaughan walked along the lines the night before he saw thousands of silent men busy with their needle and thread sewing their names on their underclothing.
The hot, close weather of the preceding days had ended in a grateful rain at five o'clock, which continued through the night and brought the tired, suffering men gracious relief.
Grant decided92 to assault the whole Confederate front and gave his orders for the attack at the first streak49 of dawn at four-thirty.
The charging blue hosts literally93 walked into the crater94 of a volcano flaming in their faces and pouring tons of steel and lead into their stricken flanks. Nothing like it had ever before been seen in the history of war.
Ten thousand men in blue fell in twenty minutes!
The battle was practically over at half past seven o'clock.
General Smith received an order from Meade to renew the assault and flatly refused.
The scene which followed has no parallel in the records of human suffering. Its horror is inconceivable and unthinkable. Through the summer nights the shrieks95 and groans96 of the wounded and dying rose in pitiful endless waves. And no hand was lifted to save. For three days they lay begging for water, groaning97 and dying where they had fallen. It was certain death to venture in that storm-swept space. Only a few brave men fought their way through to rescue a fallen comrade.
It was not until the 7th that a truce was arranged to clear this shamble and then every man in blue was dead save two. Everywhere blood, blood, blood in dark slippery pools—dead horses—dead men—smashed guns, legs, arms, torn and mangled pieces of bodies—the earth plowed98 with shot and shell.
Thirty days had passed since Grant met Lee in the tangled Wilderness and the Northern army had lost sixty thousand men, two thousand a day.
It is small wonder that he decided not to try longer "to fight it out on that line."
Lee had put out of combat as many men for his opponent as he had under his command at any time and his army with the reinforcements he had received was now as strong as the day he met Grant.
For twelve days the two armies lay in their entrenchments on this field of death while the Federal Commander arranged a new plan of campaign. The sharpshooting was incessant99. No man in all the line of blue could stand erect100 and live an instant. Soldiers whose time of service had expired and were ordered home, had to crawl on their hands and knees through the trenches to the rear.
The new Commander, on whose genius the President and the people had planted their brightest hopes, had just reached the spot where McClellan stood in June, 1862. And he might have gotten there by the James under cover of his gunboats without the loss of a single life.
Again John Vaughan's memory turned to McClellan with desperate bitterness. The longer he brooded over the hideous101 scenes of the past month, the higher rose his blind rage against the President.
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