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intended by me to be exactly what it was, admittedly an intrenched camp that could not be taken by the rebels so long as the navy held the river, as it never was taken; and that General Grant regretted very much the statements made by Badeau in, his report and elsewhere concerning it, so far as they reflected upon me, especially as they actually reflected upon Grant himself.
It will also have appeared that Bermuda Hundred, including City Point, was a strategic point where there could be an intrenched base
in which the supplies for Grant's army could always be safe, to which he could resort, and, leaving a small garrison there, demonstrate upon Petersburg to the southerly and against Richmond northerly, as he many times did do.
After he had demonstrated at Cold Harbor that he could not drive Lee's army into Richmond, his losses being so severe, he determined to take the other alternative of the plan agreed upon April 1, which Smith himself admits was my plan of the campaign, to
A. M. Thayer and Co. 1892.
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