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The Daily Dispatch: February 9, 1865., [Electronic resource], Disclosures by General Butler. (search)
outh 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 Monroe; a base not to be interfered with or lost while the war lasts, and where an army lies with its hand fastened upon the throat of the rebel capital. [Great cheering.] This proposition was submitted to General Grant and approved by him. This was done. On the 4th day of May the Army of the James, thirty-five thousand strong, with its artillery, its cavalry, and its supplies for thirty days, was put on board ship, and seemed at first to threaten the enemy up the York river, within thirty miles of their capital; but within twenty- four hours that army was within twelve miles of Richmond, where it has held its position ever since — a position to which it advanced without the shedding of a drop of blood. On the same day, the Army of the Potomac, under the