Autobiography and personal reminiscences of Major-General BenjFButler : Butler's book : a review of his legal, political, and military career . 744 BUTLERS BOOK. works upon that side of the river while they were protected by theenfilading fu-e of their gunboats. I went with Captain Melancthon Smith of the navy,— who assuredme that it was impossible for the monitors and larger vessels of hisfleet — they drawing sixteen feet of water and over — to get up theriver further than Trents Reach, — to make a reconnoissance with himand devise a plan, if possible, by which he might ascend the Jameswith h
Autobiography and personal reminiscences of Major-General BenjFButler : Butler's book : a review of his legal, political, and military career . 744 BUTLERS BOOK. works upon that side of the river while they were protected by theenfilading fu-e of their gunboats. I went with Captain Melancthon Smith of the navy,— who assuredme that it was impossible for the monitors and larger vessels of hisfleet — they drawing sixteen feet of water and over — to get up theriver further than Trents Reach, — to make a reconnoissance with himand devise a plan, if possible, by which he might ascend the Jameswith his vessels, which were then lying below at the point called« Dutch Gap, to the defences of Richmond. Here is a peculiar formation : The river running up by Trents Reachbends very sharply to the right and returns again, in an elongated horse-shoe form, so directly that while it has passed over a distance ofmore than seven miles, the waters of the river, at a depth of twent}^-iive feet, approach so nearly that there is only about four hundredand twenty-five feet from the water on the upper side across theneck at Dutch Gap to twent
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