. Autobiography and personal reminiscences of Major-General Benj. F. Butler; Butler's book . Banquet at Fifth Avenue Hotel, New York, November 15, 1864. T I Rev. Henry Ward Beeche a. Hal Butler for Preserving the Peace at the New York Elections.•miming Him for President. BUTLE1VS BOOK. • 62T a single man by straggling, desertion, or sickness. The locationwas a healthy one. Supplies could always come up the river fromthe North by water, and the enormous cost of supplying the armythrough the sixty odd miles of march by land from Washington toRichmond would be saved. On the 1st day of April, Gene


. Autobiography and personal reminiscences of Major-General Benj. F. Butler; Butler's book . Banquet at Fifth Avenue Hotel, New York, November 15, 1864. T I Rev. Henry Ward Beeche a. Hal Butler for Preserving the Peace at the New York Elections.•miming Him for President. BUTLE1VS BOOK. • 62T a single man by straggling, desertion, or sickness. The locationwas a healthy one. Supplies could always come up the river fromthe North by water, and the enormous cost of supplying the armythrough the sixty odd miles of march by land from Washington toRichmond would be saved. On the 1st day of April, General Grant came down to FortressMonroe to consult with me as to the campaign against the rebel was the first time I ever met him. I showed him my maps of thedepartment and also of the lay of the land around Richmond. Ishowed him also that Richmond was by no means as strongly fortifiedon the south side as it had been on the north, and that the countrysurrounding it on the south side was high, healthy land suitable forcampaigning. But whether it was determined to make the attackon the north side of the James or on the south, Bermuda and CityPoint should be used as


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