. Battles and leaders of the Civil War : being for the most part contributions by Union and Confederate officers . 538. 539 FOUR DAYS OF BATTLE AT PETERSBURG. J BY G. T. BEAUREGARD, GENERAL, C. S. A. r p he movement of the Army of the Potomac toJ- the south side of the James & began on theevening of the 12th of June, and Smiths corps (theEighteenth) was at Bermuda Hundred in the earlyafternoon of the 14th. From Point of Rocks itcrossed the river that night and was pushed for-ward without delay against Petersburg. Kautzscavalry and Hinkss command of colored troopshad been added to it. 4- It was
. Battles and leaders of the Civil War : being for the most part contributions by Union and Confederate officers . 538. 539 FOUR DAYS OF BATTLE AT PETERSBURG. J BY G. T. BEAUREGARD, GENERAL, C. S. A. r p he movement of the Army of the Potomac toJ- the south side of the James & began on theevening of the 12th of June, and Smiths corps (theEighteenth) was at Bermuda Hundred in the earlyafternoon of the 14th. From Point of Rocks itcrossed the river that night and was pushed for-ward without delay against Petersburg. Kautzscavalry and Hinkss command of colored troopshad been added to it. 4- It was with a view to thwart General Grant inthe execution of such a plan that I proposed to theWar Department [June 9th] the adoption — shouldthe emergency justify it, and I thought it did — ofthe bold and, to me, safer plan of concentrating allthe forces we could readily dispose of to give battleto Grant, and thus decide at once the fate of Rich-mond and of the cause we were fighting for, whilewe still possessed a comparatively compact, well-disciplined, and enthusiastic army in the field. From Swift Creek, ea
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