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Benjamnin F. Butler, Butler's Book: Autobiography and Personal Reminiscences of Major-General Benjamin Butler, Chapter 6: contraband of War, Big Bethel and Hatteras. (search)
s Monroe. His present command at Camps Butler and Hamilton will include the First, Second, Seventh, Ninth, and Twentieth New York Regiments, the Battalion of Massachusetts Volunteers, and the Union Coast Guard, and the Mounted Rifles. By command of Major-General Wool: C. C. Churchill, First Lieutenant, Third Artillery, Actg. Asst. Adjt.-Gen. To show what General Wool thought as to my not having done any more, I take leave to transcribe his first letter to General Scott, August 24, three days after he was put in command:-- headquarters Department of Virginia, Fortress Monroe Va, August 24. Lieutenant-General Winfield Scott, General-in-chief: General:--Allow me to ask your attention to the condition of the troops in this garrison. Of seven companies of artillery we have but six officers. It is reported to me that seven of the artillery officers have been appointed in the quartermaster's and commissary departments. I have been compelled to take Captain Churchill for