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Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 12. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones) 8 0 Browse Search
Alfred Roman, The military operations of General Beauregard in the war between the states, 1861 to 1865 2 0 Browse Search
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Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 28. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Gen. P. G. T. Beauregard. (search)
is point. Beauregard's attention was now given to establishing the shortest practicable line across the neck and entrenching it, so as to hold with the fewest number of troops General Butler in the cul de sac to which he had retreated. His purpose was accomplished in the next few days in a series of actions rising almost to the severity of battles. After each he advanced and straightened his lines, until commencing at Howlett's, on the James, they ran in a line more or less direct to Ashton Creek, near its junction with the Appomattox. Butler, says Swinton, was now in a position where if he was secure against attack, he was also powerless for offensive operation against Richmond-being, as he himself said at the time, bottled up and hermetically sealed. And General Badeau in his military history of U. S. Grant says an end had absolutely been put to Butler's campaign. The recital of events preceding the battle of Drewry's Bluff, as well as the description of that successful