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Of Northern Virginia had gained little
in numbers during the winter (186S-
64) and had never been so scantily
fed and clothed. Equipment as to
arms was good, but commissary and
Quartermaster supplies were scarce
and poor" He says that nearly all
the soldiers were ragged, barefooted
and half-starved, "but the morale Of
the army was high and Grant knew
that it was still a dangerous foe in
battle:'' '-'' q e" - ;isssss.v; 49,
Grants plan Of campaign was to
put all the armies of the Union, east
and west, into offensive operations at
one time. He brought together scat
tered commands and built up the
Army Of the Potomac to a strength
which he believed would overwhelm
Lee, who faced him across the Rap
idan astride the Orange and Alexan-
dria railroad and maintained touch
with the Richmond and Fredericks-
burg railroad IS miles to the east.
Victory Long In Balance.
The fighting spread along front
of four or five miles. One side drove
the other back, and then was driven
back. Hancock's corps was driving
Hill's fast. Gregg's Texans, only 8Os
strong, rushed against Webb's brigadt
Of Hancock's corps, lost half theii
men in killed and wounded, but
checked the Union advance in that
part Of the line, and Longstreet's
corps, with Kershaw's division lead
ing, was coming into line. Long
street sent Malone with several brig
ades-brigades were pititfully small
then-around the Federal left. which
had advanced far west of the Brock
road, on which 1t had been marching
south from Germanna ford. Malone
brought his men at right angles to the
advancing federal left, attacked it,
and 1t shriveled back to thu Brock
road. There in the Wilderness the
land and dotted with dead.
Lees plan had succeeded in part,
failed in part. He had inflicted on
Grant much heavier losses than he
had sustained but he had not hurled
the. Army Of the Potomac into con-
fusion and disorder.
Gallant eedowiek's Death.
On May 8 sedgwick and, War
ren's corps were thrown against An
derson and EARLY, and thrown back
with heavy loss. The day Of the 9th
was spent In accommodating, intrench-
ing, sniping, sharpshooting and small
firing here and there along the lines
as marching bodies became exposed
within range. On the morning Of the
9th sedgwick was killed by q Confed-
crate sharpshooter. The ball. struck
him in the left cheek beneath the eye.
He had gone to an exposed part Of
the line. Shots were coming over
now and then. He was warned.
"Why," he; answered, 'they could not
hit a. elephant at that distance" he
fell dead a minute later.
The Confederate lines were very
irregular, adopting themselves to the
broi rem: contour Of the land. At the
North end sof the position, two miles
above the courthouse, was d salient
that bulRed northward for nearly q
mile, ,and in places was half mile
across From the east base of that
salient the Cont derate sAne ran three
miles south 20 some high land above
the Po river, Z quarter Of mile east
Of Smells bridge. ,tH>.
The "eioody Angle"
II was that salient which Grant
picked as the place to break Lees line
and perhaps smash the army, and that
salient came to. be. called Blood,
Angle" That point Of the line was at