ing against the movement, or about my opinion that the first move should be for Petersburg.
On April 2d, when General Grant came ashore, Butler got out his maps and sent for me. Not liking to oppose ted.
General Grant returned to Washington, leaving a letter of instructions dated Fort Monroe, April 2d, in which he said:
When you are notified to move, take City Point with as much force as posmattox across to the James, and the work of intrenching called for by General Grant's letter of April 2d was begun, but not in the specified place.
The line taken up was about three and a half miles e cavalry were left at City Point — for what purpose, unless to keep the letter of the order of April 2d, it is hard to understand.
In the movements of the campaign they might as well have been back it come on the field opportunely it is not pleasant to contemplate.
Had the instructions of April 2d of General Grant been strictly carried out, and had Petersburg been promptly attacked on the 6t
The fall of Richmond.
I. The evacuation.--by Clement Sulivane, Captain, C. S. A.
About 11:30 A. M. on Sunday, April 2d,
Mr Davis attended morning service at St. Paul's Church, where he received a dispatch, on reading which he left the church to prepare for the departure of the Government.--editors. a strange agitation was perceptible on the streets of Richmond, and within half an hour it was known on all sides that Lee's lines had been broken below Petersburg; that he was in full retreat on Danville; that the troops covering the city at Chaffin's and Drewry's Bluffs were on the point of being withdrawn, and that the city was forthwith to be abandoned.
A singular security had been felt by the citizens of Richmond, so the news fell like a bomb-shell in a peaceful camp, and dismay reigned supreme.
All that Sabbath day the trains came and went, wagons, vehicles, and horsemen rumbled and dashed to and fro, and, in the evening, ominous groups of ruffians — more or less in liqu
