( 1) See map, and Battles and Leaders of the War, vol. iv., p. 538.
( 2) One enterprising Confederate managed to escape to our lines with a wagon and six mules from a party gathering wood. His outfit was valued at $1200.
( 3) Grant's Memoirs, vol. ii., p. 460.
( 4) Memoirs of Sheridan, vol. ii., pp. 145-7.
( 5) General Wright, speaking of this position in his report of the storming of the fortifications at Petersburg, says:
"It should here be remarked that, but for the success of the 25th ultimo, in which was carried the intrenched line of the enemy, though at a cost in men which at the time seemed hardly to have warranted the movement, the attack of the 2d inst. on the enemy's main lines could not have been successful. The position thus gained was an indispensable one to the operations on the main lines, by affording a place for the assembling of assaulting columns within striking distance of the enemy's main intrenchments." War Records, vol. xlvi., Part I., p. 903.
( 6) War Records, vol. xlvi., Part I., p. 954.
( 7) Manassas to Appomattox, pp. 603-5.
( 8) War Records, vol. xlvi., Part III., p. 1378.
( 9) War Records, vol. xlvi., Part III., p. 509.