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Benjamnin F. Butler, Butler's Book: Autobiography and Personal Reminiscences of Major-General Benjamin Butler, Chapter 5: Baltimore and Fortress Monroe. (search)
eading of that description would lead one to infer that Lincoln was in a state of abject fear. From a long and most intimate knowledge of him in times of danger and trouble, I desire to record my protest against any such inference. After the 22d of April, Washington was never in any danger of being captured for the next Montgomery, Ala., showing State Capitol in 1861. from sketch made in 1861. two years, until Lee crossed the Potomac. Why it was not captured within ten days after Fort Sumtar troops then in Washington, as elsewhere, threw up their commissions then or soon afterwards. Lee, then relied upon by General Scott to command the Union forces, threw up his commission and took command of the rebel army of Virginia, on the 22d of April. The prize to be won was gloriously magnificent. The capital of the nation, with its archives, its records and its treasure, and all of its executive organization, was there. He might not have captured the President and his secretaries, b