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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)
t was in no condition to be safely held by fifteen thousand men. The rebel troops being driven away, Beauregard came to the conclusion to make no further attack upon my lines. About nine thousand of his men were sent to Lee by the way of Richmond, See Appendix No. 60. and Colquitt's brigade of fourteen hundred men was sent to Chaffin's Bluff. Those which were ordered to Lee could not have joined him, under the condition their railroad transportation and supplies were in, before the 3d of June. Between that time and the battle of Cold Harbor there were no considerable losses, and, as Grant reports, the contests during that time were in his favor; so that he was not impeded at all by the want of troops from the Army of the James. He got sixteen thousand of them on the 28th of May before the next great battle at Cold Harbor was fought, and they included the best men I had. Whoever, therefore, reported to Grant that I was not holding ten thousand men from Lee's army, simply to
Benjamnin F. Butler, Butler's Book: Autobiography and Personal Reminiscences of Major-General Benjamin Butler, Chapter 18: why I was relieved from command. (search)
e face of the enemy, to go off on a private enterprise in this way, remaining away four months, while you are drawing pay from the United States? He did not reply to that. I then said: You heard of General Gillmore being relieved from command here you then had no further business with him. Why did you not come back then? General, said he, I am a bereaved man; I have been watching by the bedside of my dying child. No lies to me, Parson Hudson, said I; your child died on the third day of June; you left on the 28th of May; you have not watched much since. Why did you not come back before the 20th of September? Did you not get my order of the 25th of July? Yes, sir. Why did you not return, in obedience to that order? I saw my colonel, and he advised me that I need not come back. I sent for Colonel Serrell, and asked him about it, and he said he had told the chaplain no such thing. I said to the chaplain:-- On or about the 27th of May I wrote to General Gillm
Benjamnin F. Butler, Butler's Book: Autobiography and Personal Reminiscences of Major-General Benjamin Butler, Appendix. (search)
s had stood in the way of what I considered my duty with regard to military management, a course not likely to be pursued by a man ambitious of advancement. In this confidential conversation with General Grant, I tried to show him the blunders of the late campaign of the Army of the Potomac and the terrible waste of life that had resulted from what I considered a want of generalship in its present commander. Among other instances I referred to the fearful slaughter at Cold Harbor, on the 3d of June. General Grant went into the discussion defending General Meade stoutly, but finally acknowledged, to use his own words, that there had been a butchery at Cold Harbor, but that he had said nothing about it because it could do no good. Not a word was said as to my right to criticise General Meade then, and I left without a suspicion that General Grant had taken it in any other way than it was meant, and I do not think he did misunderstand me. On my return from a short leave of absence o