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Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 28. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Gen. P. G. T. Beauregard. (search)
and with the assistance of the artillery the pike was cleared of the enemy before the flanking column reached that point. Some 1,400 prisoners and five pieces of artillery were taken by the Confederates. The total Federal loss is stated by Swinton at 4,000. The Confederates' killed, wounded and missing was about 2,800. Bermuda Hundred. During the evening and night of the 16th Butler retreated upon Bermuda Hundred. On the 17th Ransom's Division was recalled to Richmond, and Beaureng almost to the severity of battles. After each he advanced and straightened his lines, until commencing at Howlett's, on the James, they ran in a line more or less direct to Ashton Creek, near its junction with the Appomattox. Butler, says Swinton, was now in a position where if he was secure against attack, he was also powerless for offensive operation against Richmond-being, as he himself said at the time, bottled up and hermetically sealed. And General Badeau in his military history