...fourteen thousand men of the Army of the James, leaving General Weitzel with twenty thousand on the north side. In front of that force we had ten thousand men of Field's and Kershaw's divisions and G. W. C. Lee 's division of local defence troops (not including Gary's cavalry, the sailors and marines) holding the forts at Drury's and Chapin's farms. General Grant's orders were that his troops at all points s...