Life and campaigns of General Robert ELee . al Beauregard followed Butler leisurely, and thrcAV upa line of intrenchments, extending from Port Walthal Junctionto the James Elver below Drewrys Bluff. On the 21st ofMay, Butler attacked this line with the hope of stopping itsconstruction, but was repulsed with heavy loss. Frequentskirmishing now took place between the two armies, but Beau-regard finished his intrenchments, and the Federal army, to usethe forcible language of General Grant, was as completelyshut off from further operations directly against Richmond, asif it had been in a bottle st
Life and campaigns of General Robert ELee . al Beauregard followed Butler leisurely, and thrcAV upa line of intrenchments, extending from Port Walthal Junctionto the James Elver below Drewrys Bluff. On the 21st ofMay, Butler attacked this line with the hope of stopping itsconstruction, but was repulsed with heavy loss. Frequentskirmishing now took place between the two armies, but Beau-regard finished his intrenchments, and the Federal army, to usethe forcible language of General Grant, was as completelyshut off from further operations directly against Richmond, asif it had been in a bottle strongly corked.* Thus the early part of June found the army of General But-ler, who had boastfully opened his campaign, corked up byBeauregard, the commands of Crook, Hunter and Averlll,driven beyond the mountains, and the principal Federal army,under General Grant himself, abandoning the original cam-paign, and seeking a new base south of the James. Everywhere success crowned the efforts of the Southern army. * General Grants Report, p. 500 Walthal Jiadvance ujmorning, hFederal arrefused tobrilliant afailed, sini The Co]that of the Genera]a line of iito the Ja May,. BuV-r^wr*- »^ | constructi * ; skirmishir • regard fin | the forcib \ shut off f; .^ . - ; , , if it had b *^ ^l f^^ Thustller, who I •Beauregai driven be} . under Ge w-y. ? , paign, anc Everyw ^Asv. GRANT CROSSES THE JAMES RrVER. 501 XI. THE SIEGE OF PETERSBURG. June, 1864—]VIarch, 1865. GRANT CROSSES THE JAMES RIVER. Immediately after the battle of Cold Harbor, General Grantdetermined to abandon the line of the Chickahominy, andseek a new base south of the James River. It required a con-siderable amount of moral courage upon his part to carry outthis resolution, for it involved the abandonment of the favoritescheme of his Government — the covering of Washington Grant, however, had a correct idea of the way in whichthis should be done, and he was convinced that the best way tocover Washing
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