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Some of them which were of the forward sort went toward the breach, which was on the Southside, and where the munitions of the artillerie lay, where they were repulsed and slaine. Two other ensignes also entred on the other side toward the West, where there was another breach: and those which were lodged in this quarter, and which shewed themselues, were likewise defeated.
"Is Jimmy over to-day?" "He's away to Cleveland." "Gough, bless me, every Manx boy seems to be going foreign." "That's where we'll all be after long and last, if we don't stop these southside trawlers." Philip went in and was received with goodwill and rough courtesy, but no man abated a jot of his freedom of action or liberty of speech, and the thumping and shouting were as loud as before.
He met it by extending the right of his infantry on the White Oak road, while drawing in the cavalry of W. H. F. Lee and Rosser along the south bank of Stony Creek to cover a crossroads called Five Forks, to anticipate me there; for assuming that my command was moving in conjunction with the infantry, with the ultimate purpose of striking the Southside railroad, Lee made no effort to hold Dinwiddie, which he might have done with his cavalry, and in this he made a fatal mistake.
And he handed me a paper. It was a telegram announcing the fall of Atlanta! "Good heavens!" I said, "is it possible? Then there is nothing to stop Sherman." "Nothing whatever," said Mr. X , coolly. "What will be the consequence?" "The Confederacy will be cut in two. Sherman will be at Savannah before Grant reaches the Southside road or as soon, at least." "You think Grant will reach that?"
The two columns were to join at New Market, whence I intended to cross the James River at some point east of Lynchburg, if practicable, so as to make my way to Appomattox Court House, and destroy the Southside railroad as far east as Farmville.
The soldiers are starving; their wives and children are writing them letters that drive them mad the end is not far off; and when Grant reaches the Southside road we are gone." Mr. X smoked his cigar with extreme calmness as he spoke. "But one thing remains," I said. "What is that?" "Lee will retreat from Virginia." Mr. X shook his head. "He will not." "Why not?"
Still, our relations did not proceed beyond friendship, and when I told you one day in the Wilderness that I was not her suitor, I spoke the truth. I am not exactly able to say as much to-day! But to finish my account of myself: I came here to Dinwiddie on the right of the army, and a week or two after my arrival the enemy made a cavalry raid toward the Southside railroad.
Grant massed his army heavily in front of the works in Charles City opposite the left of Lee; attempted to draw in that direction his adversary's main force; then suddenly the blue lines vanished; they were rushed by railroad toward Petersburg, and Grant hastened to thrust his columns still farther beyond Lee's right, in order to turn it and seize the Southside road.
I shall be on the field, and will probably be able to communicate with you; should I not do so, and you find that the enemy keeps within his main intrenched line, you may cut loose and push for the Danville road. If you find it practicable I would like you to cross the Southside road, between Petersburg and Burkeville, and destroy it to some extent.
Since Sheridan's very successful raid north of the James, the enemy are left dependent on the Southside and Danville roads for all their supplies. These I hope to cut next week. Sheridan is at White House, "shoeing up" and resting his cavalry.
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