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Ained any substantial advantage on the first day. Next morning Grant,
preparing to attack at five, was forestalled by Lee, who wished to keep
him at arm's length till Longstreet came up on the southern flank. Again
the opposing armies closed and fought with the greatest determination
for over an hour, when the Confederates fell back in some confusion.
Then Longstreet arrived and restored the battle till he was severely
wounded. After this Lee took command of his right, or southern, wing and
kept up the fight all day. Meanwhile Sheridan had countered the
Confederate cavalry under Stuart, which had been trying to swing round
the same southern flank. The main bodies of infantry swayed back and
forth till dark, with the woods and breastworks on fire in several
places, and many of the wounded smothering in the smoke. On the seventh
reassuring news came in from Sherman and Butler, Sheridan drove off the
Confederate cavalry at Todd's Tavern, and the southward march continued.
As Grant and Meade rode south that evening, past Hancock's corps, and
the men saw they were heading straight for Richmond, there was such a
burst of cheering that the Confederates, thinking it meant a night
attack, deluged the intervening woods with a heavy barrage till they
found out their m