 After days of indecisive skirmishing, the Federals returned to the south side of the James on the night of August 20.The Confederates achieved their objective of driving back the Union threat, but at a cost of diluting their forces as the Union had hoped.Deep Bottom is the colloquial name for an area of the James River in Henrico County southeast of Richmond, Virginia, at a horseshoe-shaped bend in the river known as Jones Neck.