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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)
en for the expedition to Hatteras Inlet, with a suitable quantity of water for ten days consumption, and the chief commissary of subsistence, Captain Taylor, will provide it with rations for the same length of time. These officers will report the execution of these orders by ten o'clock to-morrow if possible. By command of Major-General Wool: C. C. Churchill, First Lieutenant, Third Artillery, Act. Asst. Adjt.-Gen. Armed with the order we left Fortress Monroe at one o'clock on Monday, August 26. The last ship of our fleet but the Cumberland arrived at Hatteras about 4 o'clock on Tuesday afternoon. We went to work landing troops that evening and put on shore all we could, 345, when all our boats became swamped in the surf. Our flat boat was stove, and also one of the boats from the steamer Pawnee. We therefore found it impracticable to land more troops. The landing was being covered by the guns of the Monticello and the Harriet Lane. I was on board the Harriet Lane direct
Benjamnin F. Butler, Butler's Book: Autobiography and Personal Reminiscences of Major-General Benjamin Butler, Chapter 18: why I was relieved from command. (search)
alleck of perjury in open court. Again the editor of McClellan's own story gives testimony as to Halleck's untruthfulness. Halleck had testified against McClellan before the Committee on the Conduct of the War. The editor says in calling attention to Halleck's testimony :-- McClellan's Own Story, p. 539. That this testimony of General Halleck was distinctly false is now demonstrated beyond any dispute by the publication of his own correspondence with McClellan during the period August 26 to August 31, and by other proofs. Again McClellan accuses him to Grant of falsehood, hypocrisy, and betrayal, and more than intimates to General Grant, who did not learn of Halleck's perfidy for some years, that he stole despatches from the office of the general-in-chief in order that Grant might not see them when he came to Washington to take that office. McClellan says :-- McClellan's Own Story, p. 216, et seq. On the morning of Sunday, March 2, 1862, desiring to give orders