Statistics for occurrence #1 of “Major-General Benjamin F. Butler” in year 1863, month October of Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events, Diary from December 17, 1860 - April 30, 1864:

...bombardment until late in the afternoon. At eleven o'clock in the morning solid shot were thrown into the city of Charleston, one of which struck the building occupied by the Union Bank. Major-General Benjamin F. Butler , by direction of the President of the United States, was appointed to the command of the Eighteenth army corps, and of the Department of Virginia and North-Carolina.--A heavy fire was kept up on the ...
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