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Benjamnin F. Butler, Butler's Book: Autobiography and Personal Reminiscences of Major-General Benjamin Butler, Chapter 9: taking command of a Southern City. (search)
tunately for my theory, I had a confirmation of it. A little tug came over from Nassau, a port which was interdicted because the yellow fever prevailed there. The ca was loaded with barrelled provisions from New York and that she had stopped at Nassau only to take on coal. It was sworn to, also, that she took on nothing else, especially no passengers, and no part of the crew came from Nassau. They all came from New York, and the tug stopped nowhere, and they all seemed to have been afraid to go on shore at Nassau on account of the fever. As I did not believe that yellow fever could be brought in soft coal, and as the tug had provisions which were neede come from? There were two passengers on board the little tug that came from Nassau. You must be mistaken, doctor. It was sworn expressly that there were no passengers on board, and certainly none from Nassau, and I called for the report, which was at hand. I found that I was right, but the oath had been false. Well,
Benjamnin F. Butler, Butler's Book: Autobiography and Personal Reminiscences of Major-General Benjamin Butler, Chapter 18: why I was relieved from command. (search)
ns should be set out. His staff officer found some such cases and reported that the persons ought to be discharged because no charges had been made against them. That was true also, and yet it was for the good of the service. I was not asked why I made the arbitrary arrests and confined parties to close imprisonment, treating them very well in some cases, and I now state I would do so again under the same circumstances and submit my action to the judgment of good. people. There was, at Nassau, a gathering of pilots who knew the harbors of Mobile, Savannah, Charleston, and Wilmington. These harbors, could only be entered by vessels in the charge of pilots who were, expert enough to run in in dark nights only, in order to get by our blockading fleet. The pilots, in the darkest night, could take large blockade runners in through the narrow channel where Porter with all his officers and sixty vessels, four of which had been blockade runners captured there, could not get in in two d
ution of, 542-546; comment on, 547. Munroe, Col., Timothy, commanding Eighth Massachusetts, 174. N Napoleon, I. reference to, 741, 864, 865, 997, Butler reads history of, 868. Napoleon, Louis, Butler's recall from New Orleans, 525, 530; responsible for Butler's recall from New Orleans, 549; plan for capturing Mexico, 464-465; sends expedition under Admiral Reynaud, 490-491. Nashville, General Thomas at, 655; Buel's headquarters at, 872; Grant consults with Buel at, 873-875. Nassau, expert pilots at, 849. National Convention, Butler delegate to, 981. Nelson, Judge, of Tennessee, counsel for President Johnson, 929-930. New Berne,North Carolina, occupied by Union forces, 617; attacked, 618; yellow fever at, 411-412. New Hampshire, early settlers of,[35, 41; law of primogeniture, 48. New Inlet, Butler to meet naval fleet off, 786. New Kent Court-House, Butler meets Kilpatrick at, 621. Newmarket Heights, the attack and capture of, 731, 733; Butler's mo