ords_., vol. xxxiii., p. 1022.

( 6) _Manassas to Appomattox_ (Longstreet), p. 544-5.

( 7) _War Records_, vol. xxxvi., Part II., p. 370.

( 8) _Ibid_., Part I., p. 189 (Meade's Report).

( 9) _Ibid_., Part II., p. 331.

(10) _War Records_, vol. xxxvi., Part II., pp. 729, 742, 745, 748.

(11) _Twelve Sermons_, p. 302.

(12) _Manassas to Appomattox_, p. 564.

(13) _Memoirs of Lee_, A. L. Long, p. 330.

(14) _War Records_, vol. xxxvi., Part I., pp. 193, 776-792.

(15) _War Records_, vol. xxxvi., Part I., p. 749.

(16) _Ibid_., pp. 188-195 (Meade's Report).

(17) _War Records_, vol. xxxvi., Part I., p. 627.

(18) _Ibid_., pp. 734, 740.

(19) _War Records_, vol. xxxvi., Part I., p. 734-5 (Keifer's
Report).

(20) Vol. ii., p. 276.

(21) _War Records_, vol. xxxvi., Part I., p. 188 (119-198).

(22) It is interesting to note that the ratio of killed to wounded,
shown by this table is almost exactly 1 to 5, that is 16.6 per
cent. of the whole number were killed; that of the killed, 1 out
of every 14.6 was an officer; of the wounded, 1 out of 20 was an
officer; of the whole number killed and wounded, 1 officer was
killed out of every 88, 1 officer was wounded out of every 24.3,
and 1 enlisted man was killed out of every 6.5, and one officer
was killed or wounded out of every 19.

(23) _War Records_, vol. xxxvi., Part I., pp. 188, 196.

CHAPTER VII
Campaign South of James River and Petersburg--Hunter's Raid--Battle
of Monocacy--Early's Advance on Washington (1864)--Sheridan's
Movements in Shenandoah Valley, and Other Events

In pursuance of the general plan, as we have seen, General B. F.
Butler had organized at Fortress Monroe the Army of the James,
composed of the Tenth and Eighteenth Corps, commanded, respectively,
by Generals Quincy A. Gilmore and W. F. Smith. It moved by transports
up the James River on May 4, 1864, and effected a landing without
serious resistance at Bermuda Hundred the night of the 5th. At
the same time General Kautz, with 3000 cavalry, made a raid from
Suffolk and destroyed a portion of the Petersburg and Weldon
Railroad. These movements caused a hasty concentration against
Butler of all the available troops from the Carolinas. Beauregard
was put in command of them. There was some indecisive fighting
between parts of Butler's army at Stony Creek, Jarratt's Station,
and White Bridge, and there were somewhat general engagements at
Port Walthall Junction, Ch