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West Point (Virginia, United States) (search for this): article 8
e who were among my old friends in polities, but who, unfortunately, have lately got upon the other side, who sneer at me as the "hero of Big Bethel and Fort Fisher." I accept the title. They do me honor overmuch. What was Big Bethel? It was a skirmish, in which twenty-five men were killed and wounded. But Big Bethel was not Bull Run; Big Bethel was not Fair Oaks; Big Bethel was not Seven Pines; Big Bethel was not the Chickahominy. Big Bethel was a failure; but it was no disaster. No West Point general commanded there. I claim credit for this: that when we, of the volunteer army of the United States, make failures, we do not make disasters. Stop a moment and compare the battles I have named with Big Bethel. Why, at these there were more men slaughtered and homes made desolate than there were leaves on the trees in the forest around Big Bethel — not to be numbered. But I am the hero of Fort Fisher, too. Well, Fort Fisher was not Fredericksburg; Fort Fisher was not Chancell
York (Virginia, United States) (search for this): article 8
ly defended as Fortress Monroe; a base not to be interfered with or lost while the war lasts, and where an army lies with its hand fastened upon the throat of the rebel capital. [Great cheering.] This proposition was submitted to General Grant and approved by him. This was done. On the 4th day of May the Army of the James, thirty-five thousand strong, with its artillery, its cavalry, and its supplies for thirty days, was put on board ship, and seemed at first to threaten the enemy up the York river, within thirty miles of their capital; but within twenty- four hours that army was within twelve miles of Richmond, where it has held its position ever since — a position to which it advanced without the shedding of a drop of blood. On the same day, the Army of the Potomac, under the command of General Meade, more than an hundred thousand strong, started from the Rapid Ann, also toward Richmond. I need not repeat what you all know of the history of the march of that army; but I h
Richmond (Virginia, United States) (search for this): article 8
history of the march of that army; but I have a right to say, because now it has passed into history, that the intention with which that army set out upon its march was to move round the north side of Richmond, above Mechanicville, strike the James river above the city of Richmond, and there forming a junction with the Army of the James, which was to move up towards Richmond on the south side of the James river, get around the city on the south side, and thus cut it off. Now, perhaps, youJames river, get around the city on the south side, and thus cut it off. Now, perhaps, you can understand what may have slightly puzzled you heretofore, why the Army of the James was demonstrating towards Drowry's Bluff on the sixteenth of May, while the Army of the Potomac was coming down from the Rapid Ann, on the north side, towards Richmond. But the Army of the Potomac never reached its destination on the north side of the James; nor did the Army of the James succeed in reaching the James, above Richmond, on the south side. Indeed, there was no call for the Army of the James a
Dutch Gap Canal (United States) (search for this): article 8
ll, Fort Fisher was not Fredericksburg; Fort Fisher was not Chancellorsville; Fort Fisher was not the Wilderness; Fort Fisher was not Cold Harbor. A volunteer general commanded at Fort Fisher at each attack; one was without result, but no disaster; the last was a success — all honor to General Terry and his brave volunteer soldiers. Again, it is charged upon us that we did not make so big a hole in the Dutch Gap canal as we ought to have made. It may be that we did not — although Dutch Gap canal was a success — make so large a hole there as was made by the explosion of the mine at Petersburg last summer; but, thank God, neither did we fill uselessly that hole up with American dead until it ran blood. [Renewed applause.] I am, therefore, content, nay, I claim to be the hero of the comparatively bloodless attacks on Big Bethel and wholly bloodless failure of Fort Fisher; and I do not claim to be the hero of Fredericksburg of Chancellorsville, of the Chickahominy, of Fair Oaks, o<
Chancellorsville (Virginia, United States) (search for this): article 8
more men slaughtered and homes made desolate than there were leaves on the trees in the forest around Big Bethel — not to be numbered. But I am the hero of Fort Fisher, too. Well, Fort Fisher was not Fredericksburg; Fort Fisher was not Chancellorsville; Fort Fisher was not the Wilderness; Fort Fisher was not Cold Harbor. A volunteer general commanded at Fort Fisher at each attack; one was without result, but no disaster; the last was a success — all honor to General Terry and his brave voit ran blood. [Renewed applause.] I am, therefore, content, nay, I claim to be the hero of the comparatively bloodless attacks on Big Bethel and wholly bloodless failure of Fort Fisher; and I do not claim to be the hero of Fredericksburg of Chancellorsville, of the Chickahominy, of Fair Oaks, of the Wilderness, of Cold Harbor, nor of that charnel-house of useless dead in the mine before Petersburg. I am prepared to take the issue; and hereafter, fellow-citizens, when you hear me to that little
United States (United States) (search for this): article 8
r. We have received a copy of a Northern paper containing, in full, the speech of General Butler at Lowell. It fills five columns, printed in very small type.--There is a good deal of information in it which will be entirely new in the Confederate States. We give some extracts from it: The exchange of prisoners — Grant responsible for stopping it. Butler emphatically denies having, at any time, stopped the exchange of prisoners. He says that he and Colonel Ould, in March last, arryself and the rebel agent to the Secretary of War, and asked for power to adjust the other questions of difference so as to have the question of enslaving negro soldiers stand alone, to be dealt with by itself, and that the whole power of the United States should be exerted to do justice to those who had fought the battles of the country and been captured in its service. The whole subject was referred by the Secretary of War to the Lieutenant General commanding, who telegraphed me on the 1
Deep Bottom (Virginia, United States) (search for this): article 8
line of negro soldiers; and no troops have advanced a step beyond their position in that direction after seven months of siege. On the 29th of September, the Army of the James crossed the river in two columns--one at Varina, the other at Deep Bottom. One attacked Battery Harrison, the skirmish line being gallantly led by a Lowell boy, Colonel Donahoe, who fell wounded. That column captured Battery Harrison, the strongest work of the rebels in their sixty miles of entrenchments around Richmond. On the same day, crossing at Deep Bottom, the Tenth corps, under the lamented Birney, advanced its negro division, three thousand strong, in column of division, with muskets "right shoulder shift," with not a cap on a single cone of a gun, charged through a swamp, over a breastwork covered by double lines of abattis, like a flash, in the face of eight hundred rebels, who never stopped running for five miles. --[Laughter and cheers.] The question as to whether the negro would fight was t
Petersburg, Va. (Virginia, United States) (search for this): article 8
h, in the face of eight hundred rebels, who never stopped running for five miles. --[Laughter and cheers.] The question as to whether the negro would fight was there settled before the eyes of every doubter in the army; and their masters from that time forward asked not the question. "Will the negroes fight?" but "Will they fight for us?" I have thus enumerated all the assaults that were ordered by the commander of the Army of the James--one against a strong but illy-defended work. Fort Harrison, and another against a very strong and well-defended work, the assault made by negroes, ordered for the high and noble purpose of demonstrating forever the capabilities of a race in arms resting under every prejudice. Some complimentary Notices for other Yankee Generals and a Closing shot for Grant. I understand that there are those who were among my old friends in polities, but who, unfortunately, have lately got upon the other side, who sneer at me as the "hero of Big Bethel a
Lowell (Massachusetts, United States) (search for this): article 8
Disclosures by General Butler. We have received a copy of a Northern paper containing, in full, the speech of General Butler at Lowell. It fills five columns, printed in very small type.--There is a good deal of information in it which will be entirely new in the Confederate States. We give some extracts from it: The exchange of prisoners — Grant responsible for stopping it. Butler emphatically denies having, at any time, stopped the exchange of prisoners. He says that he and Colonel Ould, in March last, arranged an exchange, man for man, the latter refusing to give up negro slaves captured in arms, and Butler determining to keep back a sufficient number of Confederates to balance that point. He says: I reported the points of agreement between myself and the rebel agent to the Secretary of War, and asked for power to adjust the other questions of difference so as to have the question of enslaving negro soldiers stand alone, to be dealt with by itself, and that t
Bull Run, Va. (Virginia, United States) (search for this): article 8
e in arms resting under every prejudice. Some complimentary Notices for other Yankee Generals and a Closing shot for Grant. I understand that there are those who were among my old friends in polities, but who, unfortunately, have lately got upon the other side, who sneer at me as the "hero of Big Bethel and Fort Fisher." I accept the title. They do me honor overmuch. What was Big Bethel? It was a skirmish, in which twenty-five men were killed and wounded. But Big Bethel was not Bull Run; Big Bethel was not Fair Oaks; Big Bethel was not Seven Pines; Big Bethel was not the Chickahominy. Big Bethel was a failure; but it was no disaster. No West Point general commanded there. I claim credit for this: that when we, of the volunteer army of the United States, make failures, we do not make disasters. Stop a moment and compare the battles I have named with Big Bethel. Why, at these there were more men slaughtered and homes made desolate than there were leaves on the trees in
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