Memoirs With Special Reference to Secession And the Civil War
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" He then remarked that General Grant was hurling columns from six to ten deep against his lines at three places for the purpose of breaking them.
"General, " I said to him, "if he breaks your line, what reserve have you?" "Not a regiment, " he replied. "And, " he added, "that has been my condition ever since the fighting commenced on the Rappahannock. If I shorten my lines to provide a reserve he THE CAMPAIGNS OF 1864 AND l86; 193 will turn me ; if I weaken my lines to provide a reserve, he wi...ll break them. " He also said that he had to fight and march his men without sufficient rest, and that exhaustion and the want of vegetables had caused the loss of more men than the bullets of the enemy. He said he had advised them to use the buds of sassafras and of grapevines as a substitute for vegetables, but that this was a poor substitute. He asked me, on my return to Richmond, to see the commissary-gen eral before going home, and to urge him to send as fast as possible all the potatoes and onions he could.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
" He then remarked that General Grant was hurling columns from six to ten deep against his lines at three places for the purpose of breaking them.
"General, " I said to him, "if he breaks your line, what reserve have you?" "Not a regiment, " he replied. "And, " he added, "that has been my condition ever since the fighting commenced on the Rappahannock. If I shorten my lines to provide a reserve he THE CAMPAIGNS OF 1864 AND l86; 193 will turn me ; if I weaken my lines to provide a reserve, he wi...ll break them. " He also said that he had to fight and march his men without sufficient rest, and that exhaustion and the want of vegetables had caused the loss of more men than the bullets of the enemy. He said he had advised them to use the buds of sassafras and of grapevines as a substitute for vegetables, but that this was a poor substitute. He asked me, on my return to Richmond, to see the commissary-gen eral before going home, and to urge him to send as fast as possible all the potatoes and onions he could.
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