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Brigadier-General Ellison Capers, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 5, South Carolina (ed. Clement Anselm Evans) 184 0 Browse Search
Adam Badeau, Military history of Ulysses S. Grant from April 1861 to April 1865. Volume 2 92 0 Browse Search
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The Photographic History of The Civil War: in ten volumes, Thousands of Scenes Photographed 1861-65, with Text by many Special Authorities, Volume 3: The Decisive Battles. (ed. Francis Trevelyan Miller) 81 1 Browse Search
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Joseph T. Derry , A. M. , Author of School History of the United States; Story of the Confederate War, etc., Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 6, Georgia (ed. Clement Anselm Evans) 62 0 Browse Search
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Col. O. M. Roberts, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 12.1, Alabama (ed. Clement Anselm Evans) 52 0 Browse Search
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Benjamnin F. Butler, Butler's Book: Autobiography and Personal Reminiscences of Major-General Benjamin Butler, Chapter 15: operations of the Army of the James around Richmond and Petersburg. (search)
s troops, waited for the morning. Frank Wilkeson, of the Eleventh New York Battery (Hancock's), says :-- Recollections of a Private Soldier in the Army of the Potomac, p 161. That night was made to fight on. A bright and almost full moon shone above us. General Grant says in his official report of the operations of his army :-- War Records, Vol. 36, Part I., p. 25. With a part of his men only he made an assault and carried the lines northeast of Petersburg from the Appomattox River, for a distance of over two and one half miles, captured fifteen pieces of artillery and three hundred prisoners. This was about 7 P. M. Between the line thus captured and Petersburg, there were no other works, and there was no evidence that the enemy had reinforced Petersburg with a single brigade from any source. The night was clear, the moon shining brightly, and favorable to further operations. Hancock, with two divisions of the Second Corps, reached General Smith just after dar
Benjamnin F. Butler, Butler's Book: Autobiography and Personal Reminiscences of Major-General Benjamin Butler, Chapter 18: why I was relieved from command. (search)
front of Drury's Bluff. He was forced back or drew back into his intrenchments in the forks between the James and Appomattox Rivers. The enemy intrenched strongly in his front which cut him off from his railroads, the city, and all that was valuare he was, in co-operation, to produce any effect. He said that the general occupied a place between the James and Appomattox Rivers which was of great strength, and where with an inferior force he could hold it for an indefinite length of time agarmuda 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 ion. 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
Benjamnin F. Butler, Butler's Book: Autobiography and Personal Reminiscences of Major-General Benjamin Butler, Appendix. (search)
to even get his troops here, until at least ten days from to-day. I have directed those troops to assemble at Gloucester Point, opposite Yorktown, under the immediate command of General Vogdes, assigning General Smith to the Camp of Instruction at Yorktown, and the command of the troops on both sides of the river. I have information upon which I most implicitly rely, that the enemy have three iron-clads done near Richmond. One, I am informed, but of that I am not certain, is up the Appomattox River. I shall take measures to make certain that fact. Neither of the iron-clads to be furnished by the navy have yet reported, nor do I believe they will be here for some time. I have some two thousand of my cavalry dismounted for want of horses, although the requisitions have been in a long time, and I have forwarded my officers for the purpose of inspecting them. General Halleck telegraphs me that you will decide whether I shall be filled up, or the other armies, and as you know my ne