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	Bermuda Hundred Campaign - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Bermuda Hundred Campaign was a series of battles fought outside Richmond, Virginia, during May, 1864, in the American Civil War.
		The campaign took its name from the fishing village of Bermuda Hundred on the peninsula at the confluence of the Appomattox and James rivers.
		Butler's Army of the James disembarked from navy transports at Bermuda Hundred on May 5, the same day Grant and Lee began fighting in the Battle of the Wilderness.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Bermuda_Hundred_Campaign (1070 words)

	Bermuda Government today
		The Bermuda one covers Bermudians and their spouses only, not the 25 percent who are not and probably will never be unless they marry a Bermudian, or are born to parents one of whom must be a Bermudian.
		The Bermuda Government has 9 appointed Parish Councils, 2 elected municipal Corporations each with their full slate of aldermen and councilors like much larger cities and towns abroad and 108 Government Boards in which there are 800 part time members (none of them full time civil servants, all reporting to a Member of Parliament).
		Each year, Bermuda Government bursaries are awarded to selected Bermudian applicants undertaking a course of study at a university, college or training institution in order to acquire professional or technical qualifications specified by the Cabinet as essential or desirable for appointment to offices in the Public Service.
	www.bermuda-online.org /bdagovt.htm (5949 words)

	Bermuda Hundred
		Bermuda Hundred was never intended to be a battlefield.
		Unfortunately for the Union cause, cautiousness and mediocrity conspired to transform the Bermuda Hundred Campaign into a series of bloody but inconclusive battles that eventually developed into grim trench warfare.
		Chesterfield County has protected 122 acres of hallowed ground associated with the Bermuda Hundred Campaign, creating a chain of small parks that protect isolated parts of the battlefields.
	www.chesterstation.org /battle/bermuda_hundred.php (231 words)

	Memorial Day Origin
		The Federal Army of the James under General Benjamin Butler established a beachhead at Bermuda Hundred on the James River in April 1864.
		Bermuda Hundred is a peninsula at the confluence of the James and Appomattox Rivers between Richmond and Petersburg, Virginia.
		His attacks on Petersburg having failed, Kautz returned to Bermuda Hundred carrying with him a captured cannon and captured old men and boys of the militia.
	memorialdayorigin.info /battle.html (776 words)

	Civil War Traveler \| Virginia \| Central \| Richmond
		This campaign was part of Union commander U.S. Grant's grand plan for the destruction of Confederate forces in Virginia in 1864.
		Bermuda Hundred, turn north from Route 10 on Allied Road, then to James River - Civil War Trails interpretation at the river near the place where Butler launched his Bermuda Hundred campaign in May 1864.
		This was a strong point in the Confederate line that "bottled up" Gen. Ben Butler's Army of the James on Bermuda Hundred in 1864 and was involved in several military events in the area.
	www.civilwar-va.com /virginia/va-central/richmond.html (2788 words)

	Chesterfield Heritage Alliance: Bermuda Hundred (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		He pointed out that the city's fortifications were less formidable to the south and noted that the Bermuda Hundred peninsula offered an excellent base of operation.
		Butler further suggested that City Point, a village located at the junction of the James and Appomattox Rivers across from Bermuda Hundred, be used as a supply point.
		This drive was designed to push Union forces away from their prepared base at Bermuda Hundred and to separate the Army of the James from its naval support.
	chesterfieldtourism.com /bermuda.shtml (1508 words)

	Bermuda Hundred (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Robertson's study is loaded with excellent maps, and it is apparent that the author took nothing for granted in studying this misunderstood campaign.
		The author presents an interesting campaign study that includes backgrounds on the leaders, adds in personal vignettes from time to time, and includes detailed tactical studies of the individual battles.
		I had never read a study of this campaign before now, and I feel like I have a stronger grasp of what occurred during this time frame.
	www.brettschulte.net /ACWBooks/bermudahundred.htm (196 words)

	County Buys Bermuda Hundred Site; George Fickett Succeeds One-On-One
		As a result, according to Fickett, a developer with plans for a 168-acre tract made a donation of 12 acres along the Bermuda Hundred federal line for a county park.
		Until 1985, the only preserved battlefield land from the Bermuda Hundred Campaign was the 10-acre Parker's Battery parcel belonging to Richmond National Battlefield Park.
		Fickett is regarded as the leading local authority on the Bermuda Hundred Campaign, and officials at Richmond National Battlefield Park regularly refer visitors to him.
	www.civilwarnews.com /archive/articles/bermuda_hundred.htm (793 words)

	Civil War Preservation Trust Lists Endangered Battlefields
		WASHINGTON, D.C. - Morris Island near Fort Sumter, the battlefields of the Bermuda Hundred Campaign in Virginia, Kennesaw Mountain in Georgia and Knoxville in Tennessee were among the top-10 "most endangered" battlefields named Feb. 24 by the Civil War Preservation Trust.
		Bermuda Hundred, Va., a peninsula in the James River, was the starting point for a federal initiative to march on Richmond.
		Commercial development on Route 10 is moving on the remaining Bermuda Hundred battlefields, including Chester Station, Port Walthall Junction, Proctor's Creek and Swift Creek.
	www.civilwarnews.com /archive/articles/endangered_battlefields.htm (1143 words)

	Amazon.com: Back Door to Richmond: The Bermuda Hundred Campaign, April-June 1864: Books: William Glenn Robertson (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		The Bermuda Hundred campaign -- a May 1864 attempt to seize Richmond by 33,000 Federal troops under Maj. Gen.
		This book has details on the campaign that actually starts from the Suffolk area where Union cavalry penetrate the lightly defended no man's land southeast of Petersburg outside of Suffolk that even today is lightly populated.
		Very well written description of the Confederate defense of Drewery's Bluff on the James (a wonderful tour stop today) and the counter attack along the Bermuda 100 that seals Butler's forces on the Peninsula as a "cork in a bottle" as Grant was alleged to have said.
	www.amazon.com /Back-Door-Richmond-Campaign-April-June/dp/0807116726 (1334 words)

	Civil War Vets
		The history of no other campaign will present the spectacle of a cavalry force capturing and killing more of the enemy than their own numbers.
		The brigadier-general commanding is desirous of expressing to those who have served under his command during the recent campaign his appreciation of their services.
		Beauregard stripped the Howlett Line (Bermuda Hundred) to defend the city, and Lee rushed reinforcements to Petersburg from the Army of Northern Virginia.
	www.thehewitt.net /civil_war_vets.htm (6944 words)

	The Civil War at Jamestown
		When Major General George B. McClellan launched his Peninsula campaign and besieged Yorktown in April, the Confederates responded by evacuation the middle Virginia Peninsula, including Jamestown, on the night of May 3.
		The pace livened during the Bermuda Hundred campaign when the telegraph was reinstalled.
		As the Petersburg campaign wore into the autumn and winter months, Union troops whose terms of enlistment had expired were sent to Jamestown to guard the island and await transportation north.
	www.nps.gov /colo/Jthanout/JtCW.html (773 words)

	[64.0] May 1864 (3): A Bottle Strongly Corked
		His campaigns against that city had not gone well, but Grant and others felt with some basis in fact that Gillmore had simply been a victim of circumstances beyond his control.
		On 6 May, Butler's forces moved west along the Bermuda Hundred Neck, with Gillmore's X Corps to the north and Smith's XVIII Corps to the south.
		On the same day as the landings at Bermuda Hundred, 5 May, a division of 3,000 cavalry under Brigadier General August Kautz had set out from Suffolk, on the southern bank of the James near Norfolk.
	www.vectorsite.net /twcw_64.html (6375 words)

	H-Net Review: David R. Dean on And Keep Moving On: The Virginia Campaign, May-June 1864
		It was composed of not one Union offensive (Grant versus Lee) but four: Grant along the Rapidan, Butler at Bermuda Hundred, Sigel in the Shenandoah Valley, and George Crook/William Averell in southwest Virginia--and the cavalry raids by Phil Sheridan to Yellow Tavern and August V. Kautz severing the Weldon and Petersburg Railroad.
		The campaign's most striking feature was the sheer number of Union offensives, which worried the Confederate high command and strained its resources more than Grant's pursuit of Lee (p.
		In the final chapter, Grimsley's assessment of the Overland Campaign is an excellent denouement to the battle narratives of the previous chapters.
	www.h-net.org /reviews/showrev.cgi?path=152091086839813 (1120 words)

	St. Paul's Church - Sydnor, William Barrett: Civil War Manuscripts at the Virginia Historical Society (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Included are descriptions of his service in Company G of the 9th Alabama Infantry Regiment and on the staff of Edward Aylesworth Perry at the battles of First Bull Run, Chancellorsville, the Wilderness, Spotsylvania Court House, North Anna, Cold Harbor, and the Crater.
		Also included are approximately four hundred watercolor drawings by Sneden portraying landscapes, towns, houses, public buildings, army camps, battles, and war prisons, many of which were executed in the field.
		The maps and drawings cover the northern Virginia area during the winter of 1861–1862, and all of the subsequent campaigns of the Army of the Potomac.
	www.vahistorical.org /cwg/s.htm (3491 words)

	Winter - Trading Gray for Blue
		Benjamin Butler "galvanized" Confederate prisoners of war for his Bermuda Hundred Campaign, but they were ordered to the Department of the Northwest instead.
		Although Butler planned to use the enlisted prisoners of war in his Bermuda Hundred Campaign near Richmond, skeptical General Grant limited them to guard duty on the defenses of Norfolk and Portsmouth.
		Over the coming year, several hundred Native Americans joined this peace faction of 150 lodges and proved to be loyal allies against war parties.
	www.archives.gov /publications/prologue/2005/winter/galvanized.html (4225 words)

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		One of the elite fighting units of the Confederate Army of Northern Virginia was the 24th Virginia Infantry Regiment, formed out of several counties in the New River Valley.
		Participating in some one dozen major battles and numerous campaigns and skirmishes of the American Civil War, the 24th Virginia was never embarrassed in combat and gave a good account of itself in all of its action.
		Perhaps the most honorable moment for the Regiment came in the May 16, 1864 Battle of Drewry's Bluff, south of Richmond, when the Confederates thwarted an effort by Benjamin Butler's Federal Army of the James in its Bermuda Hundred campaign to take Richmond from the south.
	www.24thva.org /24th.html (905 words)

	Photographs from Bermuda Hundred Seminar
		Our group began the seminar by standing exactly on the spot where Union Gen. Benjamin Butler and his Army of the James disembarked at Bermuda Hundred.
		In the foreground can be seen the original road trace and bulkheads that were dock placements for the Army of the James Supply Depot.
		Nearing the end of the campaign tour, the group stopped at Fort Stevens to view the preserved earthworks there.
	www.pickettsociety.com /bermuda100/bermuda_pix.html (825 words)

	Bermuda Hundred Campaign (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Major General George E. Pickett, commander of the Military Department of North Carolina and Southern Virginia, was the senior military officer present in Petersburg when Union General Benjamin Butler began the invasion of Bermuda Hundred during May 1864.
		The Confederate Signal Corps had warned Pickett at some point in November 1863 to expect a serious Union attack and, by April of 1864, they were able to give General Pickett specifics.
		An army of 36,000 men was about to invade the south bank of the James River between City Point and Bermuda Hundred.
	www.pickettsociety.com /bermuda100 (352 words)

	23rd Mass. Volunteer Infantry
		From here it made an expedition to Smithfield in April where on the 1 6th of the month it was engaged with loss.
		Crossing to the north side of the Appomattox and proceeding to Bermuda Hundred the regiment embarked, Sept. 4, for Newborn again and on the 10th of the month the men were again in the familiar trenches an the Trent River.
		In the latter part of September the men who had not re-enlisted were sent home to be mustered out.
	groups.msn.com /23rdMassVolunteerInfantry/history.msnw (717 words)

	Guide Introduction: Civil War Unit Histories, Regimental Histories and Personal (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		The army participated in the siege of Petersburg, including the disastrous Bermuda Hundred Campaign, and the ill-fated expedition against Fort Fisher in December 1864.
		As the principal force in the eastern theater, the Army of the Potomac was to defend Washington and the North, capture Richmond, and destroy the Army of Northern Virginia.
		In this campaign it was known as the "West Virginia Corps." Veterans related their personal reminiscences by way of annual reunion publications, which also include rosters.
	www.lexisnexis.com /academic/guides/am_civil_war/cwuh/cwuh5.asp (10278 words)

	42nd North Carolina Troops at Bentonville (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		The regiment was assigned to Kirkland’s Brigade, Hoke’s Division during the Carolinas Campaign.
		In April 1864, the brigade returned to Virginia in time to fight in the Bermuda Hundred campaign and was then assigned to the newly formed division of Maj.Gen Robert F. Hoke.
		Once on campaign in Virginia in 1864, continuous movement, battles, and duty in the Petersburg trenches would quickly wear out existing clothing and equipment.
	www.mindspring.com /~nixnox/nsrweb/42.html (1653 words)

	History: Civil War
		Campaigning with “Old Stonewall”: Confederate Captain Ujanirtus Allen’s Letters to His Wife.
		Gleam of Bayonets: The Battle of Antietam and Robert E. Lee’s Maryland Campaign, September, 1862.
		March to the Sea and Beyond: Sherman’s Troops in the Savannah and Carolinas Campaigns.
	www.lsu.edu /lsupress/Books/Subject_Listing/civil_war.htm (1564 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		As a part of Stonewall Jackson's wildly successful Valley Campaign a battery of mountain howitzers, on pack-carriages so they could be broken down onto mules for movement, was assigned to him under Major John D. Imboden.
		One hundred cavalry and two mountain howitzers, under Colonel Rutherford B. Hayes, a future President of the United States, raced down-river on a second steamer and chased the fast-moving Confederates.
		After a lot of hard campaigning, including a couple of relatively successful raids, the cavalry spent the rest of the Bermuda Hundred Campaign defending the flanks of Butler's infantry lines.
	www.currensnet.com /cwcongrs/Mountain_hwtzers/mh_ht_cwet.htm (10783 words)

	Walthall Memoir
		Here there seemed to be about three hundred prisoners, just as many as there was ground to sleep on, and conditions were somewhat crowded, and although no more were added, we soon found invisible acquisitions [lice] in myriads.
		It was terrific, and with the rays of the sun was enough to weaken the bravery of the strongest in the ranks.
		The army went on West in great disorder, every man apparently for himself, and hundreds falling by the wayside, so General Lee's army was rapidly diminishing, and it isn't surprising that he surrendered with only a few thousand.
	www.1stvirginiaregt.org /1stMemoir.html (16007 words)

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