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May 24th, 1864 AD (search for this): chapter 1.2
ged in the spring campaign of 1864 were organized as armies or distributed in military departments as follows: The Army of the Potomac, commanded by Major-General Meade, whose headquarters were on the north side of the Rapidan. This army was confronted by the Rebel Army of Northern Virginia, stationed on the south side of the Rapidan, under General Robert E. Lee. The 9th corps, under Major-General Burnside, was, at the opening of the campaign, a distinct organization, but on the 24th of May, 1864, it was incorporated into the Army of the Potomac. The Army of the James was commanded by Major-General Butler, whose headquarters were at Fortress Monroe. The headquarters of the Army of the Shenandoah, commanded by Major-General Sigel, were at Winchester. [It is not necessary to mention the other armies for my purpose.] On pages 5th and 6th of his report Mr. Stanton says. Official reports show that on the 1st of May, 1864, the aggregate military force of all arms, off
William Swinton (search for this): chapter 1.2
some time. This state of facts may account for General Badeau's mistake, as it can be explained on no other hypothesis. Neither Stanton nor Grant have given any estimate of the loss of the army of the latter in this memorable campaign, but Mr. Swinton, who was a regular correspondent of a New York paper, in constant attendance with the Army of the Potomac, and who has published a history of the campaigns of that army, says, on pages 491-92 of his book: Grant's loss in the series of acme; but I have a printed copy of a letter written to the New York Tribune in June, 1867, which gives statements taken from the returns of the Confederate armies on file in said Archive office, which letter is understood to have been written by Mr. Swinton, the author of The Campaigns of the Army of the Potomac. I send that copy to you, in order that you may verify, by an examination of it, all my statements; and, if I appear a little prolix and tedious, I beg you to be patient, as I desire to
A. E. Burnside (search for this): chapter 1.2
or-General Meade, whose headquarters were on the north side of the Rapidan. This army was confronted by the Rebel Army of Northern Virginia, stationed on the south side of the Rapidan, under General Robert E. Lee. The 9th corps, under Major-General Burnside, was, at the opening of the campaign, a distinct organization, but on the 24th of May, 1864, it was incorporated into the Army of the Potomac. The Army of the James was commanded by Major-General Butler, whose headquarters were at Fort absent without leave, and shows, exclusive of all these, an aggregate available force present for duty on the 1st of May, 1864, of 662,345 of which there were 120,380 in the Army of the Potomac, under Meade, and 20,780 in the Ninth Corps, under Burnside, making an aggregate available force present for duty under Grant, on the north side of the Rapidan, on the 1st of May, 1864, of 141,160, officers and men. Now, I ask what inducement was there, on the 1st day of May, 1864, just two days before G
McLaw (search for this): chapter 1.2
0 was caused by the departure of Longstreet's corps from the army during that month, two divisions of it going to Chickamauga, and the other (Pickett's) to the south-side of James river. The strength of that entire corps was then a little less than 12,000 for duty. The returns for March, 1864, show in the Department of Northern Virginia 39,407 for duty, while those for April show 52,626 for duty-this increase resulting from the return of the two divisions of Longstreet's corps (Field's and McLaw's afterwards Kershaw's) which had been at the battle of Chickamauga and afterwards on a winter campaign in East Tennessee, also of some detachments which had been on special service, and of furloughed men. These returns were made at the end of and for the whole month of April, and not on the 20th of the month as stated by General Badeau. Longstreet's two divisions had then returned and were embraced in said monthly returns, his third division being at that time in North Carolina and not aft
April 2nd, 1864 AD (search for this): chapter 1.2
f Virginia and North Carolina, from which the Army of the James came, an available force for duty of 59,139; and no part of the Army of the Potomac or of the Ninth Army corps was in either department. In General Grant's report, dated the 22d of July, 1865--a copy of which I am sorry I have not in a form to send you, but which is to be found in the official documents printed at large in book form by the 39th Congress — he gives a letter from himself to Major-General Butler, dated the 2d of April, 1864, and containing instructions for the approaching campaign, in which he says: You will collect all the forces from your command that can be spared from garrison duty — I should say not less than twenty thousand effective men — to operate on the north side of James river, Richmond being your objective point. To the force you already have will be added about ten thousand men from South Carolina, under Major-General Gilmore, who will command them in person. Major-General W. F. Smith<
April 21st, 1864 AD (search for this): chapter 1.2
re actually reached Grant at Spotsylvania Courthouse, where, he says: The 13th, 14th, 15th, 16th, 17th and 18th (of May) were consumed in manoeuvring and awaiting the arrival of reinforcements from Washington; and this was before General Lee had been reinforced by a solitary man. In addition to these reinforcements, Mr. Stanton says, on page 46, near the conclusion of his report, that the Governors of Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Iowa and Wisconsin, tendered 85,000 hundred days men on the 21st of April, 1864, to be raised in twenty days, which were accepted, and the greater part of which were raised, and that they supplied garrisons and relieved experienced troops which were sent to reinforce the armies in the field — some of the hundred days men being sent to the front at their own request. In order, then, to substantiate his assertion that Grant's force for duty in the field at the Wilderness was only 98,000 men, General Badeau must show that Mr. Stanton has lied in the most willful and
February 28th, 1865 AD (search for this): chapter 1.2
to you, in order that you may verify, by an examination of it, all my statements; and, if I appear a little prolix and tedious, I beg you to be patient, as I desire to show to you and your readers how officers of the United States army manufacture history. In the first column of the letter to the Tribune you will find a table of monthly returns for the Department of Northern Virginia, which is in the following words and figures: Department of Northern Virginia. February 28, 1862--February 28, 1865. date.Commander.for duty.present.present and absent. 1862--FebruaryJ. E. Johnston47,61756,39684,225  MayJ. E. Johnston[67,000]    JuneR. E. Lee[100,000]    JulyR. E. Lee69,55994,686137,030  AugustR. E. Lee[95,000]    SeptemberR. E. Lee52,60962,713139,143  OctoberR. E. Lee67,80579,395153,778  NovemberR. E. Lee73,55486,583153,790  DecemberR. E. Lee79,07291,094152,853 1863--JanuaryR. E. Lee72,22693,297144,605  FebruaryR. E. Lee58,55974,435114,175  MarchR. E. Lee60,29
Abe Lincoln (search for this): chapter 1.2
shows that his statement of Grant's loss is confined to that army and the Ninth Corps, and does not include any loss sustained by the reinforcements from Butler's army, which were at Cold Harbor. Now, from this statement, if General Badeau is right in his statement of Grant's force, the conclusion is inevitable that the army of the latter was in effect destroyed; and if, according to Grant's famous remark, Butler had got himself into a bottle strongly corked, the former, to use one of Mr. Lincoln's elegant expressions, had butted his brains out against a gate-post. Perhaps it was fortunate for Grant that Butler was hermetically sealed up at Bermuda Hundred, when he too was compelled to seek refuge at the same point, and wait for further reinforcements. Having disposed of General Badeau's statement of Grant's force, I will now consider his estimate of the strength of General Lee's army. A strange hallucination in regard to the strength of all the Confederate armies seems to
March 15th, 1866 AD (search for this): chapter 1.2
gments of General Lee, then he is challenged to produce the documents in General Lee's handwriting. The word of that gallant gentleman and Christian hero, to those who knew him, is as indisputable as Holy Writ, and he has invariably asserted, up to the time of his lamented death, that the force with which he encountered and fought Grant in the Wilderness was under 50,000 men, including all that Longstreet had brought up. In a letter from him which I have, and which was written on the 15th of March, 1866, he says: It will be difficult to get the world to understand the odds against which we fought; and he has since in person assured me that the estimate which I had made of his force, in a published letter written from Havana in December, 1865, and in my published account of my own operations for the years 1864-5--which was 50,000--exceeded the actual efficient strength of his army. The returns of the Army of Northern Virginia, which are in what is called the Archive office at Washi
July 22nd, 1865 AD (search for this): chapter 1.2
f Virginia and North Carolina, from which the Army of the James came, an available force for duty of 59,139; and no part of the Army of the Potomac or of the Ninth Army corps was in either department. In General Grant's report, dated the 22d of July, 1865--a copy of which I am sorry I have not in a form to send you, but which is to be found in the official documents printed at large in book form by the 39th Congress — he gives a letter from himself to Major-General Butler, dated the 2d of Aptely under his leadership are at their homes, desiring peace and quiet, and their arms are in the hands of our ordnance officers. Thus wrote the General-in-Chief of the United States armies--the now President of the United States--on the 22d of July, 1865. Yet we have not had peace. The heel of the military power, supplanting all civil government, is scarce yet withdrawn from our necks, and our venerated and beloved commander has gone down to his grave with his great heart broken by the su
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