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The swampy expeditions, riverboat duels and months of maneuvering gave way to a siege whose end seemed inevitable, as Grant finally boxed Pemberton’s graybacks inside the city.

Only 100 miles south of the District, this former Confederate capital felt, at times, decidedly Southern, with grayback statues lining a celebrated avenue and shopkeepers offering customers an unhurried welcome.

His eyes traveled up the great rock—in whose cave his companions lay sleeping; as they gained the top of that old grayback, they were confronted by two other eyes—mere twinkling points of flame!

A grayback lizard darts out of the greasewood near at hand, blinks rapidly and darts back again, glad to escape the intolerable heat.

For had he not found a number of the graybacks thus happily engaged?