...d up and hermetically sealed. And General Badeau in his military history of U. S. Grant says an end had absolutely been put to Butler's campaign. The recital of events preceding the battle of Drewry's Bluff , as well as the description of that successful onslaught by 15,000 hastily assembled men (excluding Whiting's 4,000, which never reached the field, or was near enough to exercise even a moral influen...