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Benjamnin F. Butler, Butler's Book: Autobiography and Personal Reminiscences of Major-General Benjamin Butler, Chapter 12: administration of finances, politics, and justice.--recall. (search)
nformation in my power, and more than he has asked, in relation to the affairs of this department. On the 23d, I had a public leave-taking of my troops and friends. A very large number of both soldiers and citizens collected. For two hours and more there was a continuous throng passing by where I stood and shaking me by the hand. General Banks and officers paid their respects, and Admiral Farragut was there with nearly all of the principal officers of his fleet. On the morning of the 24th, the levee at which my transport lay was covered with a large concourse of citizens. No troops were there, although General Banks was kind enough to offer me as an escort my old regiment, the Twenty-Sixth Massachusetts. I thanked him for his courtesy but told him that I had walked through New Orleans for many months without any guard, and I was not going out of it under guard. I entered my carriage at my quarters with a single orderly on the box, as had been my custom, and drove down to th
Benjamnin F. Butler, Butler's Book: Autobiography and Personal Reminiscences of Major-General Benjamin Butler, Chapter 17: Fort Fisher. (search)
fourteen hundred and fifty men in the fort on Christmas Day. Had Porter seen any of them go away? How could he suppose that the Confederates had built such a work there and left only twenty men to defend it? In the same report Porter says that only one or two desperate men managed to fire one gun which seldom hit anyone, during the bombardment. Colonel Lamb says he expended six hundred shot and shell besides grape and canister on that day, and that he had expended six hundred more on the 24th. How shall Porter be excused with such a work before him, its strength visible to every eye, for saying that it was only a rebel shell ? See Appendix No. 139. These reports were only downright falsehoods, made for the purpose of getting Welles to allow him to make another attempt. Porter's performances at the first attack were not intended to demolish the fort; he did not mean that they should take the fort. He says that his order was that the firing should not be rapid; that only one
Benjamnin F. Butler, Butler's Book: Autobiography and Personal Reminiscences of Major-General Benjamin Butler, Appendix. (search)
ld again be at the rendezvous with the transport fleet, for the purpose of commencing the attack, the weather permitting. At four o'clock, on the evening of the 24th, I came in sight of Fort Fisher, and found the naval fleet engaged in bombarding, the powder vessel having been exploded on the morning previous about one o'clock. Wilderness then put off shore with good speed to avoid any ill-effects that might happen from the explosion. At forty-five minutes past one of the morning of the 24th, the explosion took place, and the shock was nothing like so severe as was expected. It shook the vessel some, and broke one or two glasses, but nothing more. Squadron, United States flag-Ship Malvern, at sea, off New Inlet, North Carolina, Dec. 26. Hon. Gideon Welles, Secretary of the Navy: . . . At daylight, on the 24th, the fleet got under way, and stood in, in line of battle. At 11.30 A. M. the signal was made to engage the forts, the Ironsides leading, and the Monadnock, Canon