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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)
by every rule of military law and right, and above all by my full success in so doing and holding the city, it would not be agreeable to Scott, and that he was, as I afterwards found him, in a furious rage about it. The reason of his anger was this: He had conceived a project of capturing all points around Washington, such as Baltimore and Harper's Ferry, by moving great bodies of troops as soon as he thought he had enough to make a sufficient display for a lieutenant-general. On the 29th of April, when he sent for me, he had sketched to me the following plan of attack on Baltimore:-- I suppose that a column from Washington of three thousand men, another from York of three thousand men, and a third from Perryville or Elkton, by land or water, or both, of three thousand men, and a fourth from Annapolis of three thousand men might suffice. But it may be, and many persons think it probable, that Baltimore, before we can get ready, will voluntarily re-open the communication throug