Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1906-06-03

tftdtlC S4IiFu every PoInI he tfI"t t9 gain: that he defeated Lee every time he met him; that Grant broke Lees centre. a Spotst lvania and that Lee made five unsuccessful at tempts to repair he break. These inaccuracX. coming from d man of Gen. P0rtef.s high standing and with his exceptional means of information but are in exact keeping with the m veracieus method observed by north ern writers of alleged history in ev- erything pertaining to the civil war.
 If Grant broke Lees center at SpottsNlNania and Lee failed to re- pair the break, why ditl not Grant throw 5o,o0o men through the gap and go on to Richmond. as there WaS then nothing in his way?
 As a matter of fact. Lee made only one attempt to repair the break, re- taking the works and holding them Nntil Grant disappeared from bis front, marching by the left flank I, was during this battle that an oak tree, eighteen inches in diameter, stand ing in an ObtuSe angle in the works was cut down by minnie balls fired by the enemy. We stood almost in our tracks after recapturine the works, and fought from & o'clock in the morning of the l2th until 1 O., clock the next ing-twenty hours on a stretch This is the only time I remember to have fought all night long. The oak tree spoken of above fell about 3 o'clock in the morning of he 18th. There vas not q switch or twig an inch long on the tree that was not cut by a minnie ball and tue bark was absolutely all torn from ev cry tree on the side next to the en- enly. and the Confederate and Feeder al dead lay in heaps all over the ground Grant had again failed to pierce Lees lines. If Gen. Porter's every time he met him is true. isn't
 ii little strange that lt took Grant eleven months to go fOur-days' march? Grant was slowly working lis way by a flank movement to the position on the peninsula occupied two years previously by Mcclellan, There was either heavy fighting or skirmishing between the two armies every day along down lhe Mattaponi river and on to Cold Harbor. where two of Grants charges were repulsed with frishtful loss to his men. ten thousand being killed and wounded third charge, but his men positively refused to sacrifice themselves in such death trap.
 Up to this time-in about thirty days-Grant had lost sixty thousand men. Gen. Porter admits that Grant lost forty thousand men in forty days, zbut his figures are far short of the actual losses sustained by Grants army) The northern press denounc- ed Grant as a butcher" but he knew that he could only win by wearing Lee out and at fearful cost. He there fore fought Lee Whenever and wher- oyer he found him. All along the line, about eighty miles. from just below Orange court house to the old lines below Richmond the Federal deal could be seen lying like fiocks of blackbrds on the ground. The flank movement continued Nntil Lees atenuated line was stretched until Il was broken on the 2nd of April, 1865, at Five Forks, and he withdrew the shattered remnant of his army to Pet ersburg and marching on to Appamat toX surrendered to Grant on April 9.
 There was othing like the vandalism under Grant that there was by Sher- mans army in Georgia, and in obe- dience to the orders issued by this modern Duke of Ava. Sherman said "War is he'll and he omitted no Geed of diabolsm which would add to it's horrors. Lest l may be charg- ed with unwarranted severity in crit icising Gen Sherman, will copy q few lines of his orders showing his contribution to wars inferno and lighting with the glare of immortal infamy the name of the man whose very memory evokes bitter curses from the people, helpless women and children, who had to flee from their burning homes to find shelter only under tha protecting foliage of friend