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Benjamnin F. Butler, Butler's Book: Autobiography and Personal Reminiscences of Major-General Benjamin Butler, Chapter 4: the call for troops. (search)
x hundred and six officers. And as their force was only about eight hundred men, it appears that no more than two hundred of them served as privates only. After I had written this, and before I had revised the manuscript, the following letter was brought to my notice, which I use as an authority for my statements about the bravery of the officers, which I did not know of my own knowledge:-- New York, March 15, 1891. Major-General Benj. F. Butler, Boston, Mass.: Sir:--I have read Swinton's History of the New York Seventh Regiment, and from it I learn that the Seventh was a well drilled and equipped regiment in April, 1861. That during the Civil War they did not fire a shot at the enemy, were not in any battle, not once under fire, did not kill or wound any of the enemy, and never trod on rebel territory. In May, 1861, a portion of the regiment remained in camp in Washington while the others crossed the Long Bridge over the Potomac, and bivouacked one mile from the bridg