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Benjamnin F. Butler, Butler's Book: Autobiography and Personal Reminiscences of Major-General Benjamin Butler, chapter 24 (search)
and perfected the strategy for a campaign against Richmond by having an impregnable intrenched camp containing thirty square miles of territory within its boundaries, which could be held by ten thousand men against the whole rebel forces forever, within eight miles of the rebel capital, like a hand upon its throat never to be unclenched, as it never was. I fortified it as a refuge to which the Army of the Potomac could repair in safety as a base of supplies, as it did when it failed to drive Lee's army in retreat to the defences of Richmond. I took possession of this camp to be intrenched by a march wholly of my planning and execution, by moving more than thirty thousand men, with their artillery supplies and munitions of war, by water seventy-five miles through the enemy's country in a single day without the loss of a man, and without any knowledge on the part of the rebels of my presence until I was in camp. From that intrenched camp at Bermuda Hundred, on the 15th of July, I c
Benjamnin F. Butler, Butler's Book: Autobiography and Personal Reminiscences of Major-General Benjamin Butler, Appendix. (search)
D. Porter, Rear-Admiral. Report before the Committee on the Conduct of the War, No. 5, p. 182. [No. 136. See page 814.] the defences of Fort Fisher. From the Century War books. by its commander, William Lamb, Colonel, C. S. A. . . . Lee sent me word that Fort Fisher must be held, or he could not subsist his army. . . . At the land face of Fort Fisher, five miles from the intrenched camp, the peninsula was about half a mile wide. This face commenced about a hundred feet from tames, of the work to be done in this respect. U. S. Grant, Lieutenant-General. City Point, Va., Nov. 15, 1864. Maj.-Gen. G. G. Meade, Commanding Army of the Potomac: The movements now being made by the army under General Sherman may cause General Lee to detach largely from the force defending Richmond, to meet him. Should this occur, it will become our duty to follow. In such case the Army of the James will be promptly withdrawn from the mouth of the James River and put in the trenches ab
Benjamnin F. Butler, Butler's Book: Autobiography and Personal Reminiscences of Major-General Benjamin Butler, Index. (search)
attacks Bermuda Hundred, 665-666; sends men to Lee, 663; attempts to destroy signal station at Cobton, 458-500; despatch from Beauregard to, 681; Lee's arrival at Petersburg telegraphed to, 703; re, formerly Wilson's wharf, 627; attacked by Fitzhugh Lee 669-670; gallant fight of negroes at, 670-6ille, 876; on Davenport's report, 900; believes Lee must surrender, 901; in Personal Memoirs, 902; , 843. Hampton, Wade, in Lacy's letter, 881; Lee's conversation in regard to Mahone, 884, 886. 647, 686, 688, 703, 705, 735, 831, 858. Lee, Fitzhugh, attempts the capture of Fort Pocahontas, he war, 879; merit for leadership recognized by Lee, 879-880; an open letter from Horace Lacy to, 8 Lee must abandon, 901; his manoeuvres to drive Lee into, 901. Richmond & Petersburg R. R. cut, 1861,217; Davis might have captured, 219, 221; Lee attacks, 627-628; Gillmore ordered to, 680; But 627; seized and occupied, 640; attacked by Fitzhugh Lee, 669-670. Wilkes, Commander of San Jacin[10 more...]
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