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 48 LIVES OF THE PRESIDENTS assault was made on Lee s line, near the centre, in which he lost nearly 4,000 prisoners and 30 guns. Violent storms now caused a cessation in the fight ing for several days. On the 19th, E well s corps, of Lee s army, moved around Grant s right flank and attacked, but was repelled after hard fighting. Grant s losses from May 8 to 21, around Spottsyl- vania, were 2,271 killed, 9,360 wounded, and 1,970 missing. The estimate of the enemy s loss in killed and wounded was nearly as great as that of the National army, besides about 4,000 prisoners and 30 cannon captured. In the meantime Butler had occupied Bermuda Hundred, below Richmond. Sherman had reached Dalton, Ga., and was steadily driving Johnston s army toward Atlanta. But Sigel had been forced to retreat before Breckenridge. On the 21st, Grant moved by the left flank to North Anna river, where he again encountered Lee, and after several en gagements moved again by the left from that posi tion on the 27th toward Cold Harbor. Grant s losses between the 20th and 26th were 186 killed, 792 wounded, and 165 missing. Lee s losses during this period have never been fully ascertained. After much fighting by detached portions of the two armies, Grant made a general assault upon Lee s heavily intrenched position at Cold Harbor on June 3, but did not succeed in carrying it, being repelled with a loss of about 7,000 in killed,