Deep Bottom, Va

selected by Butler during the campaigning around Richmond and Petersburg in 1864 as a position from which to threaten Lee. A lodgment was effected there June 21, and Foster was there posted with a strong force. Lee, fearing this position, made several ineffectual attempts to secure it, and at last Grant ordered a counter attack on August 15 and 18. Hancock turned the Confederates’ advance position, while Foster feinted an attack upon his front. The plan worked so succe fully that Miles’ brigade outflanked the Confederates’ outpost and carried away four guns. Lee fell back to Bailey’s Creek, but continued to hold his strong defensive work at Chapin’s Bluff.