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ter June 18th. General Meade intrenches. what General Badeau says of the failure to capture Petersburg. hisl Meade's Army. erroneous explanation of it by General Badeau. General Beauregard's comprehension of the depHistory of Ulysses S. Grant (vol. II., p. 372) General Badeau uses the following language: The General-inself only arrived in Petersburg on that day. General Badeau quotes General Beauregard's telegram to Generalto point out a palpable omission on the part of General Badeau. On the 20th of June, after the arrival of G000 men; and the wearied veterans alluded to by General Badeau had undergone no such fatigue as General Beaureal army after the 18th of June, and that reason General Badeau himself finally gives in the following languagetion of our men, would be all in our favor; and General Badeau's and Mr. Swinton's admissions now show the cord probably have had a different termination. General Badeau reports General Grant as having said, at ten o'
bandoned by the Federals. ours and the enemy's loss. General Badeau's opinion of this affair.> From the hour of 12 M., isoners, including several hundred from the 6th Corps. General Badeau Military History of Ulysses S. Grant, vol. II., p. ave been fully strong enough to meet any emergency. General Badeau asserts that most of these operations were conducted eix, vol. i., pp. 229, 230. It even appears, from what General Badeau says of this order to withdraw, Military History of UGeneral Grant himself, and not by General Meade. Says General Badeau: Burnside's despatches to Meade, reporting the figd missing, 246 prisoners, 2 colors, and 2 guns; and by General Badeau, at 4400. In our opinion the enemy must have lost morture of Petersburg, planned with consummate skill—says General Badeau—and every contingency cared for in advance. With the een, and do not expect again to have. And yet, writes General Badeau, with a frankness that does him no little honor, this
e Reaches Chesterville. his telegram to President Davis urging concentration. remarks upon General Badeau's interpretation of this telegram. apprehension of the enemy upon this Point. reasons uponhe Confederate history may here be elucidated. In his Military History of Ulysses S. Grant, General Badeau speaks of the foregoing despatch and proposed concentration in terms of complete discourtesy reinforcements by General Beauregard —is conclusively shown by the following quotation from General Badeau's book: At this time again Grant saw reason to apprehend a movement of Lee before Richmond oard was the true strategic measure to adopt, is shown by the apprehension of the enemy. And General Badeau again quotes, as follows, General Grant's words to General Meade, on the 3d of March:For thelled that measure of concentration which the Administration, unfortunately, disregarded, and General Badeau, with naught before him but the equivocal proof of an accomplished fact, presumptuously cond
ving so often tested their mettle, knew that even at this dark hour of our struggle, and after they had been so hardly tried, there were no better troops in the Confederate service. What might not have been the result of the battle of Bentonville, if to Bragg's and Hardee's forces, and to the small portion of the Army of Tennessee there present, had been added two corps of the Army of Northern Virginia; or if, without them, General Johnston's forces had really amounted to 49,868 men, as General Badeau asserts, in his Military History of Ulysses S. Grant! Vol. III., p. 432. The effective strength under General Johnston, at the battle of Bentonville, did not exceed 14,100 men. General Butler's division of cavalry, posted to watch General Sherman's right column, took no part in the action; nor did, General Wheeler's forces; nor did the 2000 men of the Army of Tennessee, under General Cheatham, who only arrived on the 20th and 21st, and had nothing to do during the first day's enco