CHAPTER XXXIX.

AGAIN IN FRONT OF RICHMOND.

Longstreet absent on Leave, nursing his Wounds--Hears of the Death of Cavalry Leader J. E. B. Stuart--Returns to Virginia-- Assigned to Command on the North Side of James River--Affair on the Williamsburg Road--Lee's Apprehension of Grant's March into Richmond--Closing Scenes of the Campaign of 1864 about the Confederate Capital--General Benjamin F. Butler's Move against Fort Fisher--Remote Effects on the Situation in Virginia 572