Identifier: americanconflict02gree (find matches)
Title: The American conflict : a history of the great rebellion in the United States of America, 1860-'64 : it's causes, incidents, and results, intended to exhibit especially its moral and political phases, with the drift and progress of American opinion respecting human slavery, from 1776 to the close of the War for the Union
Year: 1865 (1860s)
Authors: Greeley, Horace, 1811-1872
Subjects: Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 Slavery
Publisher: Hartford : O.D. Case & Co. Chicago : Geo. & C.W. Sherwood
Contributing Library: Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection
Digitizing Sponsor: The Institute of Museum and Library Services through an Indiana State Library LSTA Grant

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n, flour, &c., were sooaswept away by a clamorous crowd. Our lines opposite Eichmond—that is, north of the James—had beenheld, since Ords withdrawal south-ward, by Gen. Godfrey Weitzel, withKautzs division of the 24th, andAshbornes and Thomass divisionsof the 25th corps, under instructionsfrom Grant to make the utmost showof strength and purpose to assault,so as to keep the enemy here in force,while the bulk of our army should beflanking and fighting him out of Pe-tersburg. These instructions hadbeen faithfully, efficiently obeyed;though Longstreet, confronting Weit-zel, had at length suspected the truecharacter of Grants strategy, andhad himself, -with a part of his force,moved southward to the help of Leeat Petersburg. Weitzel, however,persisted in speaking daggers, butusing none; and, tliroughout thememorable Sunday evening of theRebel Ilegira, though his guns weresilent, his bands were vocal far intothe niglit, treating our friends behindthe opposite intrcnchments with va^
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WETTZEL niDES IXTO niCnMOXD. 737 nations and iterations of Hail Co-lumbia, Yankee Doodle, and TheStar-Spangled Banner, in utter dis-regard of Shakspcares dictum aver-rino; a natural antaironism betweenTreason and Melody, No one on ourside seems to have suspected that theRebel soldiery were even then steal-thily withdrawing from their worksin our front, preparatory to hasteningafter their comrades who had alreadyfiled hurriedly and dolefully out oftlie opposite portals of Richmond. At leno;th, our musicians havins:played the soldiers to sleep, hadthemselves sunk also to rest, when,about 2 A. M.,° Weitzel, still alert,was startled by the sound of explo-sions. They were fewer, nearer, andheavier, than the dull, continuousbooming of cannon in the south,which had been audible throughoutthe previous morning; and they evi-dently claimed instant attention. Lt.J. L. Depeyster, of his staif, havingascended the signal tower, 70 feethigh, at headquarters, reported, onhis return, that he had seen

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