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Hospital Attendants—Collecting the Wounded after the Engagement—within Our Lines near Hatchers Run. Pencil, Chinese white, and black ink drawing on brown paper by William Waud, September–October, 1864. Launched by General in Chief Grant, the February 1865 battle of Hatcher’s Run, near Petersburg, Virginia, did extend Union lines (and force the Rebels to do the same), as Grant intended—but at a cost of more than 1,500 Union casualties.