Daily State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1864-07-15
The FniIure of Grant.

At the Wilderness General Grant endeavored
to open a passage to Richmond by force. He
failed. The bloody sacrifice that he made in do.
ing so has brought desolation to thousands of
northern hearthstones. Sliding quietly across
Lees 'front.' he repeated his attempt to penetrate
the Confederate ranks near the Court House Of
Spottsylvania He failed. He inundated on
that occasion hecatOmbs of federal manhood
Those miscarriages cry TO Heaven from the un
buried dead that, dear TO the souls of sisters and
mothers and brothers and fathers throughout the
land lie by thousands under this uly sun, IN ass
es of hideous rottenness. In the name of God
and humanity, how long must this madness be
allowed to continuef
The direct movement against Richmond hav-
ing proved a miscarriage, General Grant fell off
toward tidewater.
After an unnecessary sacrifice of 30 900 men,
he then commenced an onslaught upon the city
from the SEWARD. He flung forward his splen-
did ranks against Lees works in vain. They
were literally massacred
Having failed within ten miles of that city,
Grant next drew back his army to a position
double that distance from Richmond. There
again he made a terrible miscarriage; and there
again he cost The hearths and homes of the
country thousands of their best and bravest.
Shrieking agony and bloody death failing Still
to determine the desperate issue, General Grant
next centered his operations at City Point. a
sangunary fate still followed his steps, and his
renewed attacks but increased the terrible pen
altes.
The campaign in Virginia has undergone
rapid change of character. Grants numerical
superiority OF last Nav has been destroyed by
his own recklessness. He stood after Coal Har-
Dor as Hooker did after Charlottesville, fairly
at a dead lock
His army to-day is twice as far from Rich
Richmond as it was then His measures for the
occupation of CITY Point, permanently. show
clearly that his advance upon Richmond has
proved. ut all events for the present, total fail
ure Day after day he remains in helples mac
ton. Those pretenses of activity under which
he affects operations upon the Confederate com
munications result, without any real injury TO
the Confederates, in the rapid destruction of his
own cavalry. In fact, he is not in a position to
make any movement without imminent danger
TO his 'front.' his flank. his rear. The works ex-
tending between Richmond and Petersburg, held
by strong force, Lees main army, occupies a
position outside, and places the Federal forces
subject to some of the conditions of a state of
siege
The conditions of the Virginia campaign have
~ Tact undergone very decided change After
the terrible slaughter of the third OF last month
large body of men from the Confederate army
was detached from il under Breckenridge In
calm assurance of the result Lee did not hesitate
10 "ithuraw from MS ranks subsequently a still
greater force under Early; and with this emphatic
declaration of Grants total failure. gave new
direction to the campaign by sending this wear.
A. he did last. formidable advanced guard
across the Potomac
Grants movement upon Richmond i. in fact
following the footsteps of that of Hooker A
month ago the Confeierates commenced to re-
pair the railroad leading from that city north
wardly. The sha,terings TO which Grant has so
often exposed his men against the Confederate
oreastworks have doubtless enabled Lee to send
bodies OF his troops over that route for the Dur
pose oil operating with Early's advance against
Washington. ~ Y News