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Benjamnin F. Butler, Butler's Book: Autobiography and Personal Reminiscences of Major-General Benjamin Butler 8 0 Browse Search
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Benjamnin F. Butler, Butler's Book: Autobiography and Personal Reminiscences of Major-General Benjamin Butler, Chapter 18: why I was relieved from command. (search)
forts to get Butler removed Halleck's characteristics described West Point Intriguers among the Confederates after Gettysburg Lee offers to resign in Mahone's favor Butler's farewell to his troops Ireturned to my command on the 16th of Novembendix No. 145. General Grant had for a considerable time been impressed with the belief — in which I did not share — that Lee intended to abandon Petersburg with his main army and go down to join Johnston against Sherman; and he feared very much that Sherman might be overwhelmed if Lee was not instantly pursued by the Army of the Potomac, leaving the Army of the James to take care of Petersburg. But no such event happened. Everything of the official correspondence in relation to the curree took up the spade in a nine months endeavor to recapture that city, which was at last effected through the starvation of Lee's army. While the command of the Armies of the James and Potomac devolved upon me as the senior major-general in Grant'