. Reminiscences of the war of the rebellion, 1861-1865 . ^ GENERAL BUTLER DEFEATED part of the loth Corps to join the Army of the Potomac,then north of the James and near Cold Harbor, (leneralButlers forces having been depleted, the enemy movedin upon his front and established a counter line of in-trenchments from the James to the Appomatox, parallelto his own. It was here and now that in the lanizuaee. A TEMPORARY HOSPITAL--A BENEFICENT HAND. of his enemies he was bottled u[). but it is clear to theunprejudiced critic, if the critic knows of what he is writ-ing, that General Butlers defeat wa
. Reminiscences of the war of the rebellion, 1861-1865 . ^ GENERAL BUTLER DEFEATED part of the loth Corps to join the Army of the Potomac,then north of the James and near Cold Harbor, (leneralButlers forces having been depleted, the enemy movedin upon his front and established a counter line of in-trenchments from the James to the Appomatox, parallelto his own. It was here and now that in the lanizuaee. A TEMPORARY HOSPITAL--A BENEFICENT HAND. of his enemies he was bottled u[). but it is clear to theunprejudiced critic, if the critic knows of what he is writ-ing, that General Butlers defeat was not so much at thehands of the enemy, as from his own corps Heckman of the i8th Corps, who was cap-tured on the 14th and taken prisoner to Richmond, saysthat from his observation of conditions, General Butlercould liave taken Richmond had the movement beenmade on the morning of the 14th of May as ordered. It 391 REMINISCENCES OF THE WAR OF THE REBELLION is also true that by the direct disobedience of the ordersof General Butler by Generals Smith and Gilmore, theopportunity of taking Petersburg was lost, with farreaching disastrous results. Both General Gilmore and General Smith, likeGeneral McClellan, were ofificers of the engineer corps,and from long professional habit of thought in theirspecial branch of education in the science of war, mustput upon paper and figure to a
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