The American Civil War - This Mighty Scourge of War

214 The American Civil War

The victorious charge of the youthful cadets of the

Virginia Military Institute at New Market, as painted

by Benjamin West Clinedinst, a postwar graduate

of the Institute. (Virginia Military Institute Museum)

toward Washington. Wallace's troops
eventually recoiled, but they had achieved
their purpose.

President Lincoln worriedly wired to

General Grant at Petersburg, urging him

to come in person. Grant instead sent

most of two corps of infantry to reinforce

Washington - precisely the sort of result

Lee had desired when he unleashed

Early. Lincoln went to the forts on the