Autobiography and personal reminiscences of Major-General BenjFButler : Butler's book : a review of his legal, political, and military career . it. S. CHAPTER XVIII. WHY I WAS EELIEVED FROM COMMAND. RETURNED to my command on the 16th of November,and there found an order from General Grant whichput me in command of the Armies of the Potomac andJames, as it informed me of his absence and enclosedan order to General Meade.^ General Grant had for a considerable time beenimpressed with the belief — in which I did not share —that Lee intended to abandon Petersburg with his main a
Autobiography and personal reminiscences of Major-General BenjFButler : Butler's book : a review of his legal, political, and military career . it. S. CHAPTER XVIII. WHY I WAS EELIEVED FROM COMMAND. RETURNED to my command on the 16th of November,and there found an order from General Grant whichput me in command of the Armies of the Potomac andJames, as it informed me of his absence and enclosedan order to General Meade.^ General Grant had for a considerable time beenimpressed with the belief — in which I did not share —that Lee intended to abandon Petersburg with his main army and godown to join Johnston against Sherman; and he feared very muchthat Sherman might be overwhelmed if Lee was not instantlypursued by the Army of the Potomac, leaving the Army of theJames to take care of Petersburg. But no such event happened. Everything of the official correspondence in relation to the currentmovements of the Army of the James went on without any intimation tome of any change of our official relations, and without any informationas to any comment by Grant upon my report of the operations againstFort Fisher. I noticed nothing, except, p
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