From Culpepper to Wilderness.
From Wilderness to Spottsylvania.
From Spottsylvania to the North Anna.
From the North Anna to the Chickahominy.
It has been a month of marching and fighting,--fighting and
marching,--day and night,--night and day,--winning no great, decisive
victory, nor suffering defeat, yet getting nearer the while to Richmond,
and compelling the enemy to choose new positions or be cut off from his
capital.
The accompanying diagram will convey to the eye the relative movements
of the two armies,--General Grant moving on the arcs of the circles, as
represented by the dotted lines, and Lee upon the chords of the arcs, as
indicated by the continuous lines.
[ILLUSTRATION:
C. Culpepper.
O. Orange Court-House.
W. Wilderness.
S. Spottsylvania.
N. A. North Anna.
C. H. Coal Harbor.
E. Richmond.]