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Benjamnin F. Butler, Butler's Book: Autobiography and Personal Reminiscences of Major-General Benjamin Butler, Chapter 18: why I was relieved from command. (search)
and success. Longstreet and Lee were quite continually at variance, and at the close of the war, Mahone was almost the only volunteer general left in high position. His celebrated brigade was the only fighting organization left near Lee at the time he was forced to surrender at Appomattox, some of the other generals having virtually allowed their divisions to disband before the surrender; for while Lee had thirty thousand men when he abandoned the intrenchments of Petersburg on the eighth day of April, he actually surrendered, on the ninth day of April, only eight thousand of his army who gave the parole, the balance having either deserted or been abandoned. Mahone was a railroad engineer, and held only the rank of brigadier-general, having refused several times promotion as major-general. How much his merit for leadership was recognized by Lee will presently appear. After the retreat from Gettysburg, when his army had reached Virginia, Lee manfully acknowledged that the loss