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could do the latter with great Sc
curity; but that Gen. Butler could not
move from where he was, in coopera-
ton, to produce any effect. He said
that the general occupied place be,
tween the James and Appomattox
rivers, which was of great strength.
and where with an inferior force he
could hold it for an indefinite length
OF time against superior, but that he
could do nothing Extensively. then
asked him why Butler could not move
from his lines and push across the
Richmond & Petersburgsrailroad to
the rear and on the south side of Rich.
mond. He replied that it was i'm.
practicable, because the enemy had
substantially the same line across the
neck of land that Gen. Butler had.
HE then took out his pencil and
drew sketch of the locality, remark.
ing that the position was like Bottle
and that Buffers line of entrench-
ments across the neck represented the
cork; that the enemy had built an
equally strong line Immediately in
front of him across the neck; and 1T
was, therefore, as If Butler was in
bottle. He was perfectly safe against
an attack, but, as Bernard expressed
1T, the enemy had corked the bottle
and with small force could hold the
cork in its place. This struck me as
being very expressive OF his position,
particularly when / saw the hasty
sketch which Gen. Barnard had drawn,
and in making my subsequent report
/ used the expression without adding
quotation marks, never thinking that
anything had been said that would at
tract attention. as this did, very much
to the annoyance, no doubt, of Gen.
Butler, and, know, very much to my
own. found afterwards that this
was mentioned in the notes of Gen.
Badeau's book, which, when they were
shown to me, ! asked to have stricken
out; yet 1t was retained there, though
against my wishes. make this state
ment here because, although have
often made 1t before, it has never been
In my power until now to place it
where it will correct history, and
desire to rectify all injustice that I
may have done to individuals, particu-
larly to officers who were CALAMITY
serving their country during the try
Ing period of the war for the preserva-
tion of the union. Gen. Butler certain.
~ gave his very earnest support to the
war, and he gave his own best efforts
personally to the suppression of the
rebellion"
The relations between Grant and
Butler at that time We're very much
strained, Butler, in fact upon Grants
suggestion, having been removed, by d.
rection of President Lincoln, from the
command of the department of North
Carolina and Virginia, and ordered to
repair to his home in Lowell, Mass.
After the war the differences be-
tween the erratic genius from the
Bay state and the hero of Ap-
pomattcx were amicably adjusted.
1t was because of his desire to set But
Ter right that Grant devoted so much
space in his book to description of the
incident.
Now we know how that expression
originated. Butler was BOTTLED up" by
the confederate soldiers, and Admiral
Cervera was 'bottled up by the Amer
lean navy. Buffers army was taken
out of the bottle by Grants orders.
Cervera's fleet oozed out of the neck
of the bottle, and the Brooklyn, Texas,
and Oregon smashed every ship, kill
Ing many men and capturing many
more. The Spanish fleet is no longer
bottled up" but all survivors of the
Spanish navy to-day have ample cause
to Remember the Aaine!"