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Benjamnin F. Butler, Butler's Book: Autobiography and Personal Reminiscences of Major-General Benjamin Butler, Chapter 15: operations of the Army of the James around Richmond and Petersburg. (search)
m under my command. Grant had taken no official action in regard to this application. On the 2d of July Smith had asked for a leave of absence, pleading ill-health. That was granted for a period of ten days. General Order No. 225 of the 7th of July relieved Smith from under my command, but the Tenth Corps and Kautz's cavalry division and the rest of the troops remained under my command. The headquarters of the department were continued, as they had always been, at Fortress Monroe. The onfidential conversation with General Grant, after which he went to New York on leave of absence. The record shows that at thirty minutes past one o'clock P. M. on that Sunday after Smith had gone, Grant suspended the operation of the order of July 7, and directed that the Eighteenth Army Corps should remain under my command, and that another army corps, the Nineteenth, should be added to my department. I heard nothing more of Smith and thought nothing more about him or his purposes, and d
Benjamnin F. Butler, Butler's Book: Autobiography and Personal Reminiscences of Major-General Benjamin Butler, Appendix. (search)
necessary to repeat in view of subsequent events, to wit: That he, General G., had written a letter the day before to ask that General Butler might be relieved from that department July 2, and I placed in command of it, giving as a reason that he could not trust General Butler with the command of troops in the movements about to be made, and saying also that next to General Sherman he had more confidence in my ability than in that of any general in the field. The order from Washington dated July 7, sent General B. to Fortress Monroe, and placed me in command of the troops, then under him, and General Grant said he would make the changes necessary to give me the troops in the field belonging to that department. I had only asked that I should not be commanded in battle by a man that could not give an order on the field, and I had recommended General Franklin or General Wright for the command of the department. I was at the headquarters of General Grant on Sunday, July 10, and there sa