Autobiography and personal reminiscences of Major-General BenjFButler : Butler's book : a review of his legal, political, and military career . or thatpurpose. For reasons unexplained to me that court never assembled,as it certainly did not report. General Gillmores active service withthe armies of the United States duringf the remainder of the war wasdesultoiy in character, and migratory in detail and assignment. 1 Penitents are soldiers who have been tried by court-martial and committed to prison for theircrimes. In some emergencies at Richmond and Petersburg they were released and formed in
Autobiography and personal reminiscences of Major-General BenjFButler : Butler's book : a review of his legal, political, and military career . or thatpurpose. For reasons unexplained to me that court never assembled,as it certainly did not report. General Gillmores active service withthe armies of the United States duringf the remainder of the war wasdesultoiy in character, and migratory in detail and assignment. 1 Penitents are soldiers who have been tried by court-martial and committed to prison for theircrimes. In some emergencies at Richmond and Petersburg they were released and formed intocompanies to fight in defence of their prison. How much they would fight after they got a chanceto run away need not be discussed. 680 BUTLERS BOOK, Prior to the 9th of June, I had erected a lookout in the neighbor-hood of two hundred feet high. It was composed of trestle work,and the illustration will save a further description. It stood onCobbs Hill just at the left and near the Appomatox end of myfortifications. It was a great annoyance to the enemy and of exceed-ing usefulness to me. There was a nine-foot square space on the top to. Lookout and Signal Station, Cobbs Hill, Butleks Fkont, Army OF the James. wliich two observers could be drawn up in a large basket by means of awindlass. Once at the top of this lookout, a large portion of thepeninsula, with all the works of the enemy, and my own lines ofpickets and fortifications, for the space of more than three miles, laylike a map under my eyes. Tims the enemy could move no forceon the Petersburg turnpike or railroad to or from Richmond without BUTLEKS BOOK. 681 its being reported to me, a relay of signal officers being always sta-tioned there to make observations through their telescopes, and bymeans of signal flags communication could be had with all theother points along my lines. The very deep ravine of whicli I have spoken, lay between thelookout and the enemys lines. On the farther side of this ravinewas a very high
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