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Benjamnin F. Butler, Butler's Book: Autobiography and Personal Reminiscences of Major-General Benjamin Butler, Chapter 2: early political action and military training. (search)
xpedition in the War of the Rebellion, and made for me a home wherever I was stationed in command. She joined me at Annapolis and accompanied me to Fortress Monroe when I was assigned there in May, 1861. She went with me on the expedition to Ship Island for the attack upon New Orleans, wherein I was exposed to the greatest peril of my life; and only when my ship was hourly expected to go to pieces, and when I importunately appealed to her good sense that our children must not be bereft of both parents, did she leave me to seek safety on board a gunboat. But of that more hereafter. She suffered great privations and hardships on the sands of Ship Island while we were awaiting the attack on New Orleans, and was on the first vessel containing troops that went up the river after the surrender of Forts Jackson and St. Philip. She went ashore with me and lodged at the St. Charles Hotel on the night after I took possession of the city of New Orleans. When in 1863 I was assigned to th
Benjamnin F. Butler, Butler's Book: Autobiography and Personal Reminiscences of Major-General Benjamin Butler, Chapter 3: the Democracy in 1860. (search)
Methodist-Episcopal Church into a Northern and a Southern organization. It was also evident that at least six of the Southern States would secede if the coming election should prove disastrous to the Democracy, and if a Republican President, presumably Seward, should be elected. In that event the most thoughtful were persuaded that war would follow, but of what magnitude none could foresee. Among the returning delegates was George F. Shepley, of Maine, who afterwards went with me to Ship Island in command of a regiment, became a brigadier-general, and died a Circuit Court Judge of the United States. As we were crossing the Potomac from Acquia Creek, he turned to me and said: Butler, when we cross the Potomac again we shall be carrying muskets on our shoulders; and I replied: That is only too likely to be the fact. The convention met in Baltimore, on the 18th of June, in accordance with its adjournment. When it assembled it appeared that the places of the seceding delegates
Benjamnin F. Butler, Butler's Book: Autobiography and Personal Reminiscences of Major-General Benjamin Butler, Chapter 7: recruiting in New England. (search)
e duly recognized and received their pay, and sailed with me for Ship Island. I also got another regiment very curiously; and I give the shat would please them so well. When the Ninth Regiment was on Ship Island, a party of them was sent out to the upper part of the Island toe louder than ever, and gave out that my expedition was to go to Ship Island, near Mobile. But Ship Island was equally as effective against Ship Island was equally as effective against New Orleans. Ship Island was selected by Pakenham for a rendezvous for the British fleet in his attack on New Orleans when defended by JacksShip Island was selected by Pakenham for a rendezvous for the British fleet in his attack on New Orleans when defended by Jackson, and by carefully examining his reports to his government, it was easy to get the knowledge necessary for a movement in that direction. down and bring back the part of my troops that had been sent to Ship Island instead of carrying any more there. We waited some twenty or of my staff officers beside me, and gave orders to up anchor for Ship Island. I had sixteen hundred men on board with me, and the enormous s
Benjamnin F. Butler, Butler's Book: Autobiography and Personal Reminiscences of Major-General Benjamin Butler, Chapter 8: from Hatteras to New Orleans. (search)
Yankee ingenuity stops a leak arrival at Ship Island making ready for the attack on New Orleans to protect themselves against the enemy on Ship Island. Then came these thoughts: What is the ue came on board and navigated the vessel to Ship Island. Captain Glisson informed us that just aoden-ship carpenters,--and my expedition to Ship Island and New Orleans seemed to have come to an e the Mississippi was run from Port Royal to Ship Island, and from Ship Island to New Orleans, and from New Orleans back to Ship Island in 1861: view of Island and fleet, Fort Massachusetts. View further repaired, and it never gave way. Ship Island is an island of white sand thrown up by the bar. When I contemplated my position at Ship Island it seemed as if I had an herculean task bef before I left Washington I had sent her to Ship Island twice, once with three thousand men and a she perils of the sea, that I did not get to Ship Island until the last of March, while I was expect[3 more...]
Benjamnin F. Butler, Butler's Book: Autobiography and Personal Reminiscences of Major-General Benjamin Butler, Chapter 9: taking command of a Southern City. (search)
s they never had occasion to ballast ships upon the outward voyage, because they always went out with cargo. The only other thing that could be had with which to ballast a vessel was white sand, and that would have to be brought in boats from Ship Island, more than one hundred miles off. The demurrage which the government must then pay by its charter for the delay in ballasting with sand would be many thousand dollars. My first purchases of sugar were to the amount of $60,000. This gave suc it, which I have not. But I have bought it with my own money and upon my individual credit. The articles are sugar, rosin, and turpentine. I have sent these as ballast in the several transport ships, which otherwise would have to be sent to Ship Island for sand. These articles will be worth more in New York and Boston than I paid for them here through my agents. If the government chooses to take them and reimburse me for them I am content. If not, I am quite content to keep them and pay t
Benjamnin F. Butler, Butler's Book: Autobiography and Personal Reminiscences of Major-General Benjamin Butler, Chapter 10: the woman order, Mumford's execution, etc. (search)
e foreign born, and now claim exemption from all duties as citizens, and exemption from liabilities for all their acts, because of being foreign neutrals. When the expedition which I had the high honor to be intrusted to; command, landed at Ship Island, and seemed to threaten New Orleans, the most energetic efforts were made by the State and Confederate authorities for the defence of the city. Nearly the entire foreign population of the city enrolled itself in companies, battalions, and bri evidence that he had not been a bad boy before his connection with the gang, and being only a sort of page for them, I sentenced to prison for a short term. The man that confessed and turned State's evidence, as is the phrase, I sentenced to Ship Island at hard labor for five years. The rebel cry went all over the city: These men won't be hanged, although Mumford was. One of them is an officer on the General's yacht, and he will be smuggled off. At ten o'clock on the day fixed for the han
Benjamnin F. Butler, Butler's Book: Autobiography and Personal Reminiscences of Major-General Benjamin Butler, Chapter 11: military operations. (search)
e of Louisiana. I could get no reply from Washington that I could have any reinforcements whatever. I had gone as far as I could get in enlisting the former soldiers of the rebel army to strengthen the regiments I then had. Accordingly I sent a confidential message to Washington saying that if they could not do anything for me by sending troops, I would call on Africa for assistance,--i. e., I would enlist all the colored troops I could from the free negroes. While I was waiting at Ship Island, the rebel authorities in New Orleans had organized two regiments from the free negroes, called Native Guards, colored. When Lovell ran away with his troops these men stayed at home. The rebels had allowed the company officers to be commissioned from colored men; but for the field officers,--colonels, lieutenant-colonels, and majors, and the staff officers,--they were white men. I found out the names and residences of some twenty of these colored officers, and sent for them to call
Benjamnin F. Butler, Butler's Book: Autobiography and Personal Reminiscences of Major-General Benjamin Butler, Chapter 12: administration of finances, politics, and justice.--recall. (search)
aring Confederate colors, and if she didn't put them on and go down street purposely. She said she did; she felt very patriotic that day. Well, I said, then I think your patriotism better be exhibited somewhere else, and I will send you to Ship Island to be confined there two years. Her husband then interposed and said she was his wife. Well, I said, why didn't you take care of her and prevent her from getting up a riot in the street? I couldn't, General. Well, you see I can. Did you say that it was made of the thigh-bone of a Yankee? Yes; but that was not true, General. Then you added lying to your other accomplishments in trying to disgrace the army of your country. I will sentence you to hard labor on Ship Island for two years, and you will be removed in execution of this sentence. Then came Fidel Keller, who had exhibited what he called the skeleton of a Chickahominy Yankee and lied when he did so, and he was given the same term of hard labor, two
Benjamnin F. Butler, Butler's Book: Autobiography and Personal Reminiscences of Major-General Benjamin Butler, Chapter 15: operations of the Army of the James around Richmond and Petersburg. (search)
several thousand men, and had been moving large bodies of troops from Boston to Annapolis, from Annapolis to Washington, from the capital to the Relay House, and from the Relay House to Baltimore; and had afterwards moved troops from Boston to Ship Island, and from Ship Island to New Orleans, and from New Orleans all over the State of Louisiana, it seemed to me that I had had much more experience in moving troops than he had; and as a topographical engineer is not the highest grade at West PoinShip Island to New Orleans, and from New Orleans all over the State of Louisiana, it seemed to me that I had had much more experience in moving troops than he had; and as a topographical engineer is not the highest grade at West Point, I did not think I should be insulted by a second grade West Pointer. I overlooked all that, however, and wrote him an unofficial letter explaining my first letter, asking him if he did not regret sending me such a reply. See Appendix No. 74. By the regulations of the service all communications in regard to military matters are to be forwarded to the superior officer through the officer in the next highest grade, and if this is not done it may be inquired into by a court-martial. Yet S
Benjamnin F. Butler, Butler's Book: Autobiography and Personal Reminiscences of Major-General Benjamin Butler, Chapter 19: observations upon matters connected with the War. (search)
lps, Gen. Thomas Williams, and General Sherman. The latter died from heart failure very soon after he joined me. I had no better soldier or officer, none in whose care I felt any more safe to leave everything in possession, than General Phelps. I had got him his promotion in 1861, and asked to have him transferred to the Army of the Gulf. He had but one fault: he was an anti-slavery man to a degree that utterly unbalanced his judgment. While in command of a portion of the troops on Ship Island in the Gulf of Mexico near the State of Mississippi, he, in the winter of 1861-62, upon his own motion, issued a proclamation of emancipation of the slaves. No notice was taken of it, as it was simply a dead letter. He disciplined his troops very admirably, and upon my arrival in New Orleans, I put him in command of the forces stationed above the city at Carrolton. The history of that command I have already stated. Differing with me on the slavery questions because I held that nothing
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