The life and public services of Abraham Lincoln ... together with his state papers, including his speeches, addresses, messages, letters, and proclamations, and the closing scenes connected with his life and death. By Henry J. Raymond. To which are added anecdotes and personal reminiscences of President Lincoln, by Frank B. Carpenter.

STATE PAPERS OF ABRAIIAM LINCOLN.

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re-enforcements to General Grant, and on the 18th the
fighting in front of Spottsylvania was renewed. On the
19th the rebels inflicted a heavy loss upon our righlt by
making an unexpected attack, in which some of our nwvly
arrived regiments suffered severely. This was an attempt
of the rebels to cut our communications, but they failed
entirely in doing so.
They had, however, by this time thrown up inltrenchments of so formidable a character that Gene(ral Grant
determined again to make a flanking movement by the
left.
Thlle movement was at once perceived by General Lee,
and when our forces arrived at the North Anna rivter, the
rebels were already there. They were not, however,
able to prevent our forces from crossing the river, and
inflicting a severe blow upon the enemy in the crossing.
After crossing, however, the main body of Lee's army
was discovered to have taken so strong a position between the North and South Anna rivers, that General
Grant again deemed it wise not to make a direct attack,
but to repeat his flanking movement.
The army was accordingly withdrawn without loss
from Lee's front on the night of Thursday, May 26th, and,
moving again by the left, crossed the Pamunkey, but
was again confronted by the rebel army,. which, after
some severe fighting, again made a stand at Coal Harbor.
While here, one corps of General Butler's army, under
General Smith, was transferred to the Army of the Potomac. Thus re-enforced, a violent but unsuccessful attack
was made upon the rebel intrenchments on thle 3d of
June, and, after heavy losses, the attack was abandoned.
Repeated efforts, however, on the part of the rebels, to
turn our left, and to break up the communication which
had been formed with the White House, on the Pamtunkey river, also failed as signally. And both armies thus
remained for several days, watching each other sleeplessly, and each preferring to receive rather than to make
an attack.
Other co-operative movements went on during all this
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