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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)
burg, and that Butler had laid this report before Baldy Smith and Hancock, and had urged them to make the assauhe Army of Northern Virginia came up; but that they, Smith and Hancock, had hesitated and dawdled the night awaere ineffectual to that end. Having exhibited General Smith's entire untruthfulness in his statements that I that would prevent the President's re-election. Smith did not know that I had been offered by the Presidenion was held on the 29th of the following August. Smith also says:-- Since I have been in New York I haveexamine a moment to see what kind of a creature this Smith is. Appointed a brigadier and promoted a major-gener 1864. Grant, in September, 1863, again recommended Smith's promotion to the President, but his name was not sim in command of a corps under myself, and sustained Smith in all his insubordinations, taking him with his corf more than twenty-thousand men to Cold Harbor where Smith lost nearly a quarter of the troops, for which he cr