Project Gutenberg Edition of The Memoirs of Four Civil War Generals

CHAPTER XXIV.

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Moving on General Early—General Grant's Letter of Instructions—Destroying the Resources of the Valley —Reason for the Destruction—Withdrawal to Halltown —Alarm in the North over the Retrograde Movement —Renewing the Advance up the Valley—General Anderson's Attempt to Return to Petersburg —Strength of the Armies