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Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 2. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), The relative strength of the armies of Generals Lee and Grant. (search)
f Virginia and North Carolina, from which the Army of the James came, an available force for duty of 59,139; and no part of the Army of the Potomac or of the Ninth Army corps was in either department. In General Grant's report, dated the 22d of July, 1865--a copy of which I am sorry I have not in a form to send you, but which is to be found in the official documents printed at large in book form by the 39th Congress — he gives a letter from himself to Major-General Butler, dated the 2d of April, 1864, and containing instructions for the approaching campaign, in which he says: You will collect all the forces from your command that can be spared from garrison duty — I should say not less than twenty thousand effective men — to operate on the north side of James river, Richmond being your objective point. To the force you already have will be added about ten thousand men from South Carolina, under Major-General Gilmore, who will command them in person. Major-General W. F. Smith<