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ent men, consisting of General Ames' division of the Twenty-Fourth Corps, and General Paine's division of the Twenty-Fifth Corps, under command of Major-General Weitzel, to an encampment near Bermuda. On the 8th the troops embarked for Fortress Monroe. On the 9th, Friday, I reported to Rear-Admiral Porter that the army portion of the conjoint expedition directed against Wilmington was ready to proceed. We waited there Saturday the 10th, Sunday the 11th, and Monday the 12th. On the 12th, Rear-Admiral Porter informed me that the naval fleet would sail on the 13th, but would be obliged to put into Beaufort to take on board ammunition for the monitors. The expedition having become the subject of remark, fearing lest its destination should get to the enemy, in order to divert from it all attention, on the morning of Tuesday the 13th, at three o'clock, I ordered the transport fleet to proceed up the Potomac during the day to Matthias Point, so as to be plainly visible to the s
s of the lieutenant-general, General Kautz was sent with his cavalry by those roads to cut the Danville Railroad and the James River Canal. He was not able to strike the canal, but cut the road near Appomattox Station, and thence marched along the line of the road destroying it at several points, but did not succeed in destroying the Nottoway Bridge. Thence, he struck across to the Weldon Railroad again destroying it at Jarratt's Station, and thence by a detour came to City Point. On the 13th, the enemy making a stand at their line of works, General Gillmore was sent to endeavor to turn their right while Smith attacked the front. Both movements were gallantly accomplished after severe fighting. Meantime, I endeavored to have the navy advance so as to cover our right, which rested near the river, from the fire of the enemy's fleet. But from the correspondence that ensued, it was obvious that we could have no assistance from the navy above Trent's Reach. See Appendix No. 46.
General Paine's division of the Twenty-Fifth Corps, under command of Major-General Weitzel, to an encampment near Bermuda. On the 8th the troops embarked for Fortress Monroe. On the 9th, Friday, I reported to Rear-Admiral Porter that the army portion of the conjoint expedition directed against Wilmington was ready to proceed. We waited there Saturday the 10th, Sunday the 11th, and Monday the 12th. On the 12th, Rear-Admiral Porter informed me that the naval fleet would sail on the 13th, but would be obliged to put into Beaufort to take on board ammunition for the monitors. The expedition having become the subject of remark, fearing lest its destination should get to the enemy, in order to divert from it all attention, on the morning of Tuesday the 13th, at three o'clock, I ordered the transport fleet to proceed up the Potomac during the day to Matthias Point, so as to be plainly visible to the scouts and signal men of the enemy on the northern neck, and to retrace their
emy making a stand at their line of works, General Gillmore was sent to endeavor to turn their right while Smith attacked the front. Both movements were gallantly accomplished after severe fighting. Meantime, I endeavored to have the navy advance so as to cover our right, which rested near the river, from the fire of the enemy's fleet. But from the correspondence that ensued, it was obvious that we could have no assistance from the navy above Trent's Reach. See Appendix No. 46. On the 14th, General Smith drove the enemy from the first line of works, which we occupied. In the morning of that day I received a telegram from the Secretary of War stating that a despatch just received reported a general attack by Grant, in which great success was achieved; that Hancock had captured Maj.-Gen. Edward Johnson's division, and taken him and Early, and forty cannon, and that the prisoners were counted by thousands. See Appendix No. 47. Twelve hours later the Secretary of War sent me
ails of that I have no recollection, as Sheridan got across safely. I had advised very strongly that the Second Corps, commanded by General Hancock, which was leading, and Burnside's corps, which was following, both arriving at the river on the 14th, should be hurried with the utmost celerity to occupy the intrenchments around Petersburg. I was sorry, however, to receive an order to send Hancock sixty thousand rations at Windmill Point, which was quite out of the direction for the purpose ofames River. See Appendix No. 69. Lee himself did not reach Petersburg until the 18th of June, at 11.20, not until then being convinced that Grant's army had passed the James. This explains fully why none of his troops passed our lines on the 14th, 15th, or 16th, and not until late in the afternoon or evening of the 17th of June. If General D. H. Hill, of the Confederate Army, is correct, Lee had been caught napping many times. See Appendix No. 70. It is established by incontestable
e; but in view of the gold conspiracy Stanton desired me personally to remain some days longer. See Appendix No. 96. November 10, General Grant telegraphed a very high compliment to Stanton, at the quiet way in which the elections in New York passed off, as follows:-- The elections have passed off quietly; no bloodshed or riot throughout the land; is a victory worth more to the country than a battle won. Rebeldom and Europe will construe it so. See Appendix No. 95. On Monday, the 14th, under the direction of a committee of the most distinguished citizens of New York, a reception was given me at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. The scene was brilliant beyond any possible conception of mine, and the reception ended with a banquet at which I was called upon to make a speech, giving to the assembly my opinion as to what should be done in the future, upon which topic, after properly acknowledging my grateful thanks for the reception, among other things I spoke as follows:-- What is
in Northumberland County, Va., at the mouth of the Potomac, to report every transport that passed up and down the bay, in fact, everything that occurred there. We had frequently seen their reports in the Richmond papers. I ordered the fleet to go up the bay that they might be reported to the enemy as going up the Potomac. Then, after dark, they were to come down the bay again with all lights put out, and thus deceive the enemy as to our movements. Early on the morning of Wednesday, the 14th, a steamer came in from the Department of the South and reported the sea to be very smooth outside. We at once started the transports already anchored off Cape Henry, and put out to sea. There was no vessel of Admiral Porter's in Hampton Roads when we left. Testimony of General Weitzel before the Committee on the Conduct of the War on the Fort Fisher expedition, pp. 68, 69, 70:-- On Wednesday morning early, a steamer came in from the Department of the South and reported the sea as very
rant: General:--I have the honor to report that the troops under the command of Major-General Weitzel left Fortress Monroe, as I informed you, on Wednesday, the 14th, and got off Cape Henry at 4 P. M., and arrived the next afternoon at the place of rendezvous designated by Rear-Admiral Porter. Admiral Porter left with the navalern neck, and to retrace their course at night and anchor under the lee of Cape Charles. Having given the navy thirty-six hours start, at 12 o'clock noon of the 14th, Wednesday, I joined the transport fleet off Cape Henry, and put to sea, arriving at the place of rendezvous off New Inlet, near Fort Fisher, on the evening of thending works will soon follow. As I informed you in my last, we had commenced operations with the iron vessels, which bombarded while we landed the troops. On the 14th, I ordered all vessels carrying eleven-inch guns to bombard, with the Ironsides — the Brooklyn taking the lead. By sunset the fort was reduced to a pulp; every gu
the commander on Federal Hill if they might march down into the city and escort him home as a matter of personal compliment, and he permitted that to be done. Having been forty hours in the saddle and on the march, and not having removed my clothes, I felt that I had a right to take some sleep. I failed to get much, however, because necessarily interrupted whenever any news came which might be of consequence, and camp rumors were very rife. At half-past 8 o'clock on the morning of the 15th, I had brought to me in bed a communication from General Scott, dated the 14th, which, if not appalling, was certainly amusing. It was in the following words:-- Sir:--Your hazardous occupation of Baltimore was made without my knowledge, and, of course, without my approbation. It is a godsend that it is without conflict of arms. It is also reported that you have sent a detachment to Frederick; but this is impossible. Not a word have I received from you as to either movement. Let me hea
capture Chaffin's farm on his side of the river, where there were about two hundred men. See Appendix No. 51. But in any event I desired that he send up a force along the north bank of the James to search for torpedoes, and the wires and batteries by which they may be discharged, with instructions to burn any house in which such machines were found, and send to me any persons captured having anything to do with them. I also asked for a personal interview at the earliest moment. On the 15th General Sheridan called on me at the front, and in conference with him I learned that he thought it would take seven or eight days to refit the horses and men of his command to make his return march. Trusting that General Grant would be with me before that time, and deeming that if General Sheridan's command, numbering four thousand effective men, were encamped on the right of my lines near Howlett's house, where there was an admirable place for a cavalry encampment, that it would be so much
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