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470 His next dispatch from Old Cold Harbor, on the 5th of June, reads:

The preceding was Grant's last dispatch from north of the James. Notwithstanding Grant's assertion that his army was "confident of protecting itself without intrenchments," he had been making intrenchments of the strongest character, during his whole campaign, whenever he had halted, or wherever he had taken position after crossing the Rapidan, as the writer personally knows from having sketched them, from the Rapidan to the Chickahominy, immediately after they were evacuated.

Dana reported on July 3d: "The working parties of each of those three corps (Hancock's, Wright's and