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Richmond (Virginia, United States) (search for this): chapter 11.80
Operations South of the James River.
I. First attempts to capture Petersburg.
By August V. Kautz, Brevet Major-General, U. S. A.
The Cavalry Division of the Army. of the James was organized in the last days of April, 1864.
Through the personal application of Lieutenant-General Grant I was selected and promoted to be Brigadier-General of Volunteers to organize and command it. I found the troops of which it was to be made up encamped in rear of Portsmouth, Va., picketing the line of the he advance of Generals Pettigrew and French from the Black water with 15,000 [5000] men. . . . Situated at the head of the Nansemond River, with the railway to Petersburg and Weldon, Suffolk is the key to all the approaches to the mouth of the James River on the north of the Dismal Swamp.
Regarding the James as second only in importance to the Mississippi for the Confederates, . . . I prepared a system, and on the 25th commenced Fort Dix. . . . My labors alarmed the authorities at Richmond, wh
Weldon, N. C. (North Carolina, United States) (search for this): chapter 11.80
Georgia (Georgia, United States) (search for this): chapter 11.80
Jarrett (search for this): chapter 11.80
H. A. Wise (search for this): chapter 11.80
Edward W. Hinks (search for this): chapter 11.80
M. C. Butler (search for this): chapter 11.80
Simon H. Mix (search for this): chapter 11.80
Wade Hampton (search for this): chapter 11.80
William Farrar Smith (search for this): chapter 11.80