Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1907-09-11
THE BLOODY ANGLE
Ky (. T. Robinson.

ATlny oI -\H4 riiS Il tt -.ii't N'4 .'ir' the civil war one o. the most stu3- bornly contested ;,y we'll as olia of the blood:est. was the haj,a of Spottsylvania Cou"; 1fG:;-e. fou2he oN May 12. 1864 The long eon.!ruance of the war between lA- s.l'es was disastrous in it's effects nr11 me com merce and industries of Edropcan na- tions, particularly lIngiaHd, France and Germany. These countries me- in the winter of 1S6364 tn rongh tht1f representatives in confer9.,te. and at ter a full discussion of .ne sit"a;.rn they realized that unless tie Wal n America were speedily brouShi to a close so that they could se- supply of Southern cotton and resume the operation of their cotton m:!ls, they would be confronted not only ny financial and commercial ruin, b"'. 5y w M Starvation among the opera
 ;vas of their mills and other a'i'e | ministries. The representatives of
 hose governments thereupon notified
 &bo government at Washington that
 bnless the war were speedily brought
 n termination, they would be
 nrced in protection of their own in-
 erests, to recognize the independence
 nf the Southern Confectionery, to es>
 ahlsh diplomatic and commercial re-
 .tions with those states, raise the
 k,ockade of their ports maintained j kv the Federal government, and open ! heir seaports to ships of all nations. < This notice was in the nature Of an Skltimatum. and caused the Federal 2 Government great disquiet, because it N las an open secret that with the ports |f the Confederacy blockaded, isolat- he her from the rest of the world, & Ind rendering impossible any assist # hoe in men, munitions or supplies, While the North had the whoie out @3 te world to draw from, yet with all WAe advantages on her side the North gad made little headway in subduing sMe South. Gen. Grant, the command
 - n-chief of the Federal armies. was 8lled in consultation and the gray M of the situation laid before him. 2Ihe recognition of the Confederacy M the foreign powers and the rais- Ing of the blockade and opening her ports assured a speedy termination Q& the war in her favor, and the es- Publishing of her independence. The &outh had paid, previous to the war, ItwO-thirds of all the expenses of the government and had been the chief market for the manufactures of the North, and then as now, paid not INV a liberal margin of legitimate , Ypft upon the product of the North R mills, but were held up for the Dbber tariff in addition The thrifty |4rth contemplated with dismay the
 pspect of losing this rich depend
 
 M stream of gold into her coffers. ter forcing upon us, for commer- and financial reasons, an unjust ALB of conquest and exploitation, the rth knew that, in the event of our
 ming our independence, we would 3l Ter embark in the manufacturing mess ourselves or we would buy manufactured goods abroad
 his was the situation in the wiu- x of 1S63-64. Grant very plainly J the Federal authorities that the way to conquer the South was to NSya rwhelm her with superior num- Slll and resources (see recent ar |Agg by Gen. Grants son, Gen. Fred sGl 1rant). He was sensible enough gS now that in generalship and mili- strategy he was no match for 1 greatest military chieftain of the
 Gen. Robt. E. Lee. He knew Al. all his predecessors, Mcclellan.
 P, Burnside, Hooker and Meade. X all been outgeneraled and defeat Ss " the matchless master of the pr war. He knew further that
 ne went out to meet the gray < ms of the great commander he to meet soldiers whom the Fed R. Gen. Carl Schurz has character K as the finest body of infantry on X 1t required no very great ary skill for Gen. Grant to se., to tell the Federal authorities K the only way to beat Lee and his X lines was to absolutely oyer 'n them by superior numbers. Y old Staunton, the secretary of K to give him men and mon " sh' and he would end the wa.
 government agreed to furnish SI With unlimited supplies of all H54z men, money and military su,.
 Grant had crossed the RaDpa- Y OK four lays march from Eich- noa (Which he was not to reach