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The Daily Dispatch: February 9, 1865., [Electronic resource], Disclosures by General Butler. (search)
starve and rot in Southern prisons"? In answer to all such appeals I am allowed only to repeat: " I have not uselessly sacrificed the lives of the soldiers of the Union; their blood does not stain my garments" This is not criticism upon the acts of anybody, but only the enunciation of a fact, in explanation of which the responsibilities of my position will not allow me to say more. The campaign against Petersburg — Grants intention to Strike James river above Richmond. On the first of April last, two large armies lay face to face, opposed to each other, on the Rapid Ann. A small army of about eighteen thousand men, six thousand of whom were negroes, lay in and around Fortress Monroe. Twenty thousand men more were ordered from the Department of the South to join that little army. Looking over the whole field, it seemed to me to be the part of wisdom to move that army upon Bermuda Hundred, establishing there a base for operation as strong and as easily defended as Fortress Mon