The weekly standard. (Port Gibson, Miss.) 1865-1867, 1866-01-06

campaign in Kentucky and Tennessee,
General Grant again reYerts to the OPP
Eerations of the Eastern armies. Gen.
Butler seems to have been a serious
marplot in the combinations of the 1t.
General When Gen. Grant determin-
ed to venture upon the capture of Fort
Fisher, Gen. Weitzel was marked out
for the work. Communications, how
ever, were carried on through General
Butler, who, as commander of the for
ces destined to the work, was entitled
to the usual eourtesies. After great
deal of delay consequent upon General
Butler waiting for powder boat, that
was to accompany the expedition being
completed at Fortress Monroe, the ex-
pedition sailed But imagine the con-
sternation of Gen. Grant at discovering
that Gen. Butler had availed himself of
his position to take charge of the force
operating against Fort Fisherl Upon
this subject the .Lieutenant-G General
thus refers to
Gen. Bsttler and The Powder Boat.
Gen. Butler commanded the army
from which the troops were taken for
this enterprise, and the territory within
which they were TO operate, military.
courtesy required that all orders and
instructions should go through him
They were so sent: but Gen. Weitzel
has since officially informed me that he
never received the foregoing instruc-
.tions, nor was he aware Of their exis-
tence until he read Gen. Buffers pub
ished official report of the Fort Fisher
failure, with my endorsement and pa
pers accompanying it. I had no idea
of Gen. Butler's- accompanying the ex-
pedition until the evening before it got
off from Bermuda Hundreds, and then
did not dream but that Gen. Weitzel
had received all the instructions, and
would be il command. I rather form
ed the idea that Gen. Butler was actu-
ated by a desire to witness the effect of
the explosion of the powder boat. The
expedition was detained several days
at Hampton Roads awaiting the load
ing of the nowder boat.
The Importance of gf 8 the VIII
.mingeon expedition off without delay.
with or without the powder boat, had
been urged upon Gen. Butler, and he
advised so to notify Admiral Porter. 4
Finally, Butler was removed from
command, and Fort Fisher succumbed
to The tremendous hammering" infu-
en4lrpf Porter's guns.
General Butler's feuaouaZ. !.
At my request, Major General B. F.
Butler was relieved, and Major General
E. o. C. Ord assigned to the command
of the department of Virginia and N.
Carolina.
After giving an abstract of the move
ments Of the last days of March, fol-
lowed by the surrender and parolling
of the Army of Northern Virginia, (or
what was left of it, he saysof
The Effect Of Gen. Lees Influence.
Gen. Lees great influence through
out the whole South caused his exam
pie to be followed, and to-day the
result is that the armies under his lead
ership are at their homes, desiring
peace and quiet, and their arms are in
the hands of our ordnance officers.
On the esreceipt of my letter of the
9Th, General Sherman moved directly
against Gen. johnson, who retreated
rapidly on and through Raleigh, which |
place Gen. Sherman occupied on the |
of the 18th. The day prece-
ding, news of the surrender of General
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Lee reached him at Slnithfeld.
On the l4th, a correspondence was
opened between Gen Sherman and Gen
Johnson, which resulted on the 10Th,
in an agreement for a suspension of
hostilities, and memorandum or basis
for peace, subject to the approval of the
President This agreement was disap-
proved by the President on the 21st,
which disapproval, together with your
instructions, was communicatedto Gen.
Sherman by me in person, on the NOR
ming Of the oath, at Raleigh, North
Carolina, in obedience to your orders.
Notice was at once given by him to
Gen. johnson for the termination Of
The truce that had been entered into.
On the 25tho another meeting between
Them was agreed upon, to take place on
5he 26th, which terminated in the sur
render and disbandment of Johnson's
army upon substantially the same terms
is were given to.Gen. Lee.
Why troops soeye Sent to Teas.
"A force sufficient to insure an easy
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