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Benjamnin F. Butler, Butler's Book: Autobiography and Personal Reminiscences of Major-General Benjamin Butler, Chapter 18: why I was relieved from command. (search)
f the James, save the garrison, attacked Richmond directly, carrying Fort Harrison and the outer line of works around Richmond, which were ever afterwards held. October 3, my Nineteenth Corps sent to defend Washington under the orders of Grant. This does not include several minor expeditions of small bodies of troops which were from time to time sent from my intrenched camp. And added to all this is the fact that from the 15th of June, 1863, until the surrender of the army of Lee, April 12, 1865, General Grant had during the whole time his headquarters always in the bottle, guarded by troops of the Army of the James which garrisoned the bottle How did he get out, as he never went through the nozzle, which was tightly corked. I am convinced that it was Badeau who wrote the report wherein this phrase was used so much to my detriment, because Grant, who was an honest and truthful man, so far as I know, never could have written it with the knowledge he had; and I am the more thor