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1. Describe the raid of Kilpatrick and Dahlgren.
2. Who was Ulysses S. Grant, and for what was he noted?
3. What was Grant's "Hammering Campaign"?
4. Describe the battles of the Wilderness. Give relative strength of
the two armies.
5. What occurred at Cold Harbor?
6. What is said of Lee's generalship?
7. How did Beauregard render Butler harmless?
8. What did Grant say of Butler's army?
9. Describe the gallant conduct of the cadets of the Virginia Military
Institute, at New Market.
10. Describe Hunter's campaign in the Valley.
11. What vandalism did he commit at Lexington?
12. By whom was he met, and defeated?
13. Why did not Early continue his march, and attack Washington?
14. Whom did Grant send to defeat Early, and with how many men?
15. What did Sheridan do in the Valley, and what assertion did he
make?
16. What did Grant hope to do on crossing the James?
17. How were his first assaults repulsed?
18. Give an account of the Petersburg mine.
19. How did it recoil upon the Federals?
20. What did Grant say of it?
21. What did the reelection of Lincoln show the South?
22. To what limits had the Confederacy been reduced at the end of
1864?
23. What was Sherman now preparing to do?
24. What is said of the resources of the Confederacy?