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Benjamnin F. Butler, Butler's Book: Autobiography and Personal Reminiscences of Major-General Benjamin Butler, Appendix. (search)
r the summer, my physicians having advised me that I must seek recuperation in a change of climate, as my health was so much shattered that they could do nothing to help me but to recommend such a change. I have no records or reports available here to which to refer, and therefore can only reply to the suggestions contained in Mr. Campbell's communication, herewith returned, from memory. It seems to me to have been of little consequence where the Ninth Corps might have been on the 16th of June, 1864, as far as the operations against Petersburg were concerned, if it could not have been in front of the defences of that place before night on the 15th. The Second Corps, I believe, crossed the pontoon bridge on the 14th of June, and was on the march towards Petersburg on the 15th, arriving within a mile of the portion of the works already captured by my division at about sunset, and at about ten o'clock at night, perhaps later, occupied the captured works, my division being withdraw