Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1895-08-04

Rocks ou ,nc Appumnttox. General
Euuta. with his cavalry. az once
Htaruu ont TO- cut tine uilrnud from
Petersburg u richmond THIS, how
cvrr, did but little harm tu BoUurc-
CARA, simply causing linn tp march,
eight or ten miles instead uf rIdluS
that distance Ia the cars and giving
tlU OF DreWrys Bun, which was
fought % day on two later, That battle
wls a complete success Tor tho North.
rru army and would huvc nyccsgitated
the fall or evacuation of Richmond
Ind the military advantage gained tS
the battle been properly followed
w, The defensive line AT prcWry'a
Bun consisted of single line OF
works. This line carried, the day was
ours.
General quincy a. Gilmore, COM
handing the Tenth Army Corps, at
uncc pointed out this defect In tho
Confederate plan ct tnrtiucntiun and
said; General II We throw out Ii
couple OF strong lines of entrenuhmcnt
On our Hanks we can hold this pusltlon
against any force ReaureEurl can
bring against u.s. ON" said Butler
I'VE don't need any side liues. We've
got bayuneta enough But the event
proved Gilmore Ia have been the visor
~ the two. The battle was fought On
Thursday, on the very next sunday
u fOggy day the Coufrdgratts. know
ms every foot OF the ground, made an
Wuek on our lines, captured an entire
brigade, ana drove us bNck to our
original position AZ Bermuda Hundred.
Had General Batter listened TO CHI
more Richmond must have heun evacu-
uteu dnd Butler would have had the
honur OF capturing or occupying the
Spulcderate capital. TINS was un-
doubleday Grants original idea It's
ucfuat caused an entire alteration OF
that plan, neccssltnting the subsequent
crossing OF the James and AppomattuN,
the siege OF Petersburg and the pro-
iongatiou VI the great struggle Tor
nearly q year.
Durius the remaining months OF the
year 1864 the stpm Of engineers were
employed In wlrNoylng the neighbour
hood south Qt our great line OK furti-
Hoatoni while the troops We're strength
enlng the defcnces OF Deep Buttom
and the cplored soldiers were engaged
N cutting the Dutch Gap canal, u
laughing stock and standing joke AT
the tine, but afterwards tho fuuin
steamship channel OF the 1ames
Nature took the Improvement In hand
herl.nlt and made i better lob OF i;
than General Butler did.
An nlRht Long for many months q
continuous artillery duel was fought
between our forces and those OF thu
enemy. Fresh details We're made evrrs
morning 70 ttpuir the damage to ON
works done by the cannonaae OF m,
might before, but there were few aeri
Gus casualties. In July the great min,
.Splosiou took place. with but ntu,
bencnt TO us, Grant had the prcvinu,
afternoon marched the whole ut N,
Sixth Coipn eastward To deceive Ia
by a feint and cause him Ia sent
troops 70 oppose any attack nude 10,
them. Whom darkness shrouded nj,
Landscape they wore marched hncl
agaln douhtlcHg much TO their mystl
tication, 10 MS TO be ON hand after IA,
explosion Of the mine. History Ia
lntes the failure OF that device.
Then followed months of "masterl,
inactivity" on our part, during which
General Butler had fun leisure to IN
come Of hts military crotchets Into exc
cution. one 90 these was a plan 1,
mount siege mortar on "A rallrnni
fat, run I. un rs nenr us poggible 1,
our front and then firc y hg shelf int,
the cnemy'n lines
So one OF General Cilinoro's bi,
swamp angalsr was aent From IiiltoI
Head ar Horncwheie In that VICINITY
duly mounted and aimed at the enenv
sut orr innenlcuH yenepnl had no
thought nj tho reeoil. Whom tho III.
mortar WIS fired tho, cSnIosinn ma IA,
requisite elevation caused a lc oil yhicl
effsctually demolished INC f,at N,
great she'll swervsd frnm its course
fell anions q pile Of comraiasaty store