. Autobiography and personal reminiscences of Major-General Benj. F. Butler; Butler's book . CHAPTER XIV. IN COMMAND OF THE ARMY OF THE JAMES. N the second day of November, 1863, without solicita-tion, I was detailed to the command of the Depart-ment of Virginia and North Carolina, with headquartersat Fortress Monroe. The Union forces were then inoccupation of the peninsula between the York andJames Rivers, up to the line of Williamsburg, thecities of Norfolk and Portsmouth, and a line extending towardsSuffolk, about seven miles from Norfolk, on the line of the DismalSwamp Canal in Virginia, a
. Autobiography and personal reminiscences of Major-General Benj. F. Butler; Butler's book . CHAPTER XIV. IN COMMAND OF THE ARMY OF THE JAMES. N the second day of November, 1863, without solicita-tion, I was detailed to the command of the Depart-ment of Virginia and North Carolina, with headquartersat Fortress Monroe. The Union forces were then inoccupation of the peninsula between the York andJames Rivers, up to the line of Williamsburg, thecities of Norfolk and Portsmouth, and a line extending towardsSuffolk, about seven miles from Norfolk, on the line of the DismalSwamp Canal in Virginia, and by the aid of the gunboats, theCurrituck, Albemarle, and Pamlico Sounds, Roanoke Island, Hat-teras Bank, Morehead City, Beaufort, the line of railroad from NewBerne, and the cities of New Berne, Plymouth, and Washington, andas much land as was fairly within the pickets of the garrison ofthose cities in North Carolina. Upon inspection of these several posts it appeared to me thatholding Washington and Plymouth was useless, because, while Wash-ington was distant from New Berne only abou
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