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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)
eneral Butler certainly gave his very earnest support to the war; and he gave his own best efforts personally to the suppression of the Rebellion. May I ask the reader to go back with me for a few moments and look at the map of Bermuda Hundred where the exact configuration, topography, and situation of the peninsula of the Bermuda Hundred is accurately shown. See pp. 659-662. If he will then examine pages 627 and 628 of Chapter XIV., he will find that I met General Grant on the 1st of April, 1864, and with a map of Bermuda Hundred before him explained to him its relation to Petersburg, Richmond, and their vicinage on the James and Appomattox Rivers, showing him that by the possession of the two rivers, at a point between the Point of Rocks on the Appomattox and Osborn on the James, where the rivers were about three miles apart, a line of intrenchments could be thrown over that distance so as to make that peninsula, some thirty square miles, an intrenched camp as impregnable as