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Benjamnin F. Butler, Butler's Book: Autobiography and Personal Reminiscences of Major-General Benjamin Butler, Chapter 16: capture of fortifications around Richmond, Newmarket Heights, Dutch Gap Canal, elections in New York and gold conspiracy. (search)
le of meeting the rebel navy on James River. As a patriot I must keep that fact quiet, and I have so done. I may as well finish the story of this matter now by saying that I was relieved from my command of the Army of the James on the 8th of January, 1865, perhaps ten or twelve days later, and possibly this failure of mine was one of the grounds in the mind of the President for my being allowed to be removed, or which caused the removal, and so I suffered. But within less than thirty daysoldier in fighting those rebellious men, whom we have three times over solemnly called to come and enjoy with us the blessings of our liberties and be friends,--saying in 1862, come in June; in 1863, come in December; in 1864, come by the 8th of January, 1865. When the clock strikes the last knell of that parting day, then all hope to those who have not made progress to return should be put off forever and ever. No longer should they be permitted to live on the land or even within the boundar
Benjamnin F. Butler, Butler's Book: Autobiography and Personal Reminiscences of Major-General Benjamin Butler, Chapter 18: why I was relieved from command. (search)
runner during the War. to sustain me in that opinion, but, I regret, not all of it, because the correspondence between the higher officers of the army has not been published down to a later date than July, 1864, and I was relieved on the 8th of January, 1865. By good fortune I got from a private source a letter See Appendix No. 82. written by Halleck, which led me to the opinion above mentioned. This letter was written at the time that Halleck's friend Smith, of whom he speaks so highly, to his own place. On the 11th of January, 1865, I left my command of the Army of the James, making to my comrades an address which I beg leave here to reproduce:-- headquarters Department Virginia and North Carolina, Army of the James, Jan. 8, 1865. soldiers of the Army of the James: Your commander, relieved by the order of the President, takes leave of you. Your conduct in the field has extorted praises from the unwilling. You have endured the privations of the camp and the mar