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Benjamnin F. Butler, Butler's Book: Autobiography and Personal Reminiscences of Major-General Benjamin Butler, Chapter 3: the Democracy in 1860. (search)
he could justify himself in joining the South in breach of his oath of allegiance to the United States. He answered: My first oath of allegiance is to the State of Mississippi, and my allegiance to the State of Mississippi overrides any allegiance to the United States. Then, I said, I suppose if Mississippi votes to go out of State of Mississippi overrides any allegiance to the United States. Then, I said, I suppose if Mississippi votes to go out of the Union, you go with her? Yes, I must go with my State. The interview was a serious and sad one. He said to me: Will you come with us? No; I shall go with my State because of my allegiance to the United States. Is it possible, then, said he with some tremor in his voice, that we shall meet hereafter as enemies? Mississippi votes to go out of the Union, you go with her? Yes, I must go with my State. The interview was a serious and sad one. He said to me: Will you come with us? No; I shall go with my State because of my allegiance to the United States. Is it possible, then, said he with some tremor in his voice, that we shall meet hereafter as enemies? That depends upon yourself; it would be to my great regret. We shook hands and parted, and I never afterwards saw him, which was a piece of good fortune to him; for if we had met while I was in command in the United States army, he would have been saved a great deal of the discomfort which he suffered by being confined in prison
Benjamnin F. Butler, Butler's Book: Autobiography and Personal Reminiscences of Major-General Benjamin Butler, Chapter 7: recruiting in New England. (search)
egiment Tennessee volunteers600    1st Arkansas volunteers600         2,645  D. R. Jones' Brigade--     5th regiment South Carolina volunteers600    15thdo.Mississippivolunteers600    18thdo.do.do.600    2 guns, Walton's battery, 6 pounders30    1 company cavalry60         1,890  Early's Brigade--     7th regiment Virginina, 2d, 3d, 4th, 5th, 7th, and 8th regiments (6）6003,600  Georgia, 7th and 8th regiments (2）6001,200  Alabama, 1st, 4th, 5th, and 6th regiments (4）6002,400  Mississippi, 2d, 15th, and 18th regiments (3）6001,800   2 companies of the 11th regiment60120 Louisiana, 6th and 7th regiments (2）6001,200   Wheat's battalion, 4 companiuated, would be, on that day, as follows:-- South Carolina, 8 regiments, at 6004,800 North Carolina,11do.6006,600 Georgia8do.6004,800 Alabama6do.6003,600 Mississippi18do.60010,800 Louisiana7do.6004,200 Tennessee1do.600600 Arkansas1do.600600 Maryland1do.600600     
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)
t to the bedside of the wounded and dying soldier at once the thought of home, the ministrations of religion, and such consolation as would seem only could come from the hand of the great Saviour of mankind. Many a mother, many a sister, many a wife, owe to their assiduous care a son, a brother, a husband, restored to them alive, who would otherwise have filled one of the unknown graves that dot the hills of Virginia, the plains of Georgia and Tennessee, and the swamps of Louisiana and Mississippi. These brave soldiers of the cross knew no creed, recognized no nationality. Their services were given, like those of their Master, to the human-kind. Was the sufferer before them a private soldier or a commanding general, to them there was no difference. Confederate or Federal, he was their brother. Let us turn from this to another case where I felt obliged to reverence the motives and to yield to the entreaties of a lady of New Orleans, Mrs. Cora Slocomb. A word of the histor
Benjamnin F. Butler, Butler's Book: Autobiography and Personal Reminiscences of Major-General Benjamin Butler, Chapter 11: military operations. (search)
56. Halleck's letter shows the condition of his mind. The following letter from General Pope shows the condition of his opponents:-- camp near Booneville, June 12, 1862. Major-General Halleck: A spy whom I sent some days ago to Okolona has just returned. The enemy is scattered along the whole road from Columbus to Tupelo, sixteen miles below Guntown. They are disorganized, mutinous, and starving. He reports the woods full of deserters belonging to the northern counties of Mississippi. Nearly the whole of the Tennessee, Arkansas, and Kentucky troops have left. A large rear guard has been strung along perpendicular to the road for twenty miles, driving the stragglers and all the cattle of every description before them. The spy reports that the whole army is utterly demoralized, and ready to throw down their arms; the Alabama troops have heard of Wood's and Negley's movements and are clamorous to go home. Jno. Pope, Major-General. War Records, Vol. XVII., Part II.,
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)
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 could be done about freeing the slave, except t
Benjamnin F. Butler, Butler's Book: Autobiography and Personal Reminiscences of Major-General Benjamin Butler, Index. (search)
, 521; a provost judge, 526; token of esteem given by New Orleans bar, 540; on Butler's staff, 893; reference to, 897. Bell, Capt., John, cuts chain cable in Mississippi, 363; passes the forts, 365. Bendix, Col. John E., at Big Bethel, 269, 270, 275. Benham, General, brings pontoon bridge to City Point, 683-684. Benjami capture of New Orleans, 370; spared Confederate gunboat McRae, 390; insulted by New Orleans women, 417; part in the Mumford episode, 438-439; his' orders as to Mississippi campaign, 454; seizes Baton Rouge, 455; letter to Halleck asking aid against Vicksburg, 456; Halleck's reply, 457; before Vicksburg, 461, 464; how the Catinet gves news of fall of Fort Hatteras, 288; interview with on recruiting, 296-298; anecdote of, 304; puts Butler in charge of Department of New England, 309; wishes Mississippi opened, 324; interview with regarding operations around Washington, 333-334; invites Butler to confer with him, 387, 389; letter to Halleck, 459: slighting refe