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Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 35. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Beauregard too much for Butler . (search)
Beauregard too much for Butler.
General Butler, however, made Richmond his objective point of attack, and not Petersburg.
He soon found he had caught a Tarter in General Beauregard, and after the severe defeat he sustained at his hands, the military nerves of our modern Achilles were so unstrung that he had no stomach for any further fighting at that time.
The Richmond Examiner of the day indeed aptly compared Butler to a turkey buzzard matched against a great gyr falcon, and the result proved the truth of its prognostications.
Finding that the enemy did not appear to be disposed to molest us, many went back to their various occupations, but ready to be called upon at a moment's warning, and so it happened that on the fateful day our force was considerably diminished.
During this time, however, we were marched from one point to another on the lines, finding ourselves at last doing duty on the farm of Mr. Timothy Rives, on the Jerusalem Plank Road, south of the town.
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Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 35. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Fitzhugh Lee . From the Times-dispatch, January 5 , 1908 . (search)