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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) 416 0 Browse Search
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Massachusetts in the Army and Navy during the war of 1861-1865, vol. 2 114 0 Browse Search
Horace Greeley, The American Conflict: A History of the Great Rebellion in the United States of America, 1860-65: its Causes, Incidents, and Results: Intended to exhibit especially its moral and political phases with the drift and progress of American opinion respecting human slavery from 1776 to the close of the War for the Union. Volume I. 80 0 Browse Search
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Francis Jackson Garrison, William Lloyd Garrison, 1805-1879; the story of his life told by his children: volume 2 38 0 Browse Search
William F. Fox, Lt. Col. U. S. V., Regimental Losses in the American Civil War, 1861-1865: A Treatise on the extent and nature of the mortuary losses in the Union regiments, with full and exhaustive statistics compiled from the official records on file in the state military bureaus and at Washington 34 0 Browse Search
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Benjamnin F. Butler, Butler's Book: Autobiography and Personal Reminiscences of Major-General Benjamin Butler, Chapter 1: lineage and education. (search)
nd peoples. There would have been no such result to the descendants of any one people. The colonists of the province of New Hampshire, which at first included Vermont, possessed very largely these qualities which I have ascribed in part to the intermingling of distinct races. Many of them were strong men, born amid the turmoils Bay. The land within certain portions of the grant was afterwards occupied under the designation of New Hampshire, and this included the territory now known as Vermont. The townships were all laid out with a church and parsonage lot, or glebe, and a school lot, after the manner of the Church of England. This was in compliancat the head, whose education went no further than in that one school, became afterwards a Boston merchant of high standing, and later still a merchant in the State of Vermont. He is an enterprising man, and is one of the wealthiest and best prized citizens of the State. Another fitted for college in the class, became a graduate
Benjamnin F. Butler, Butler's Book: Autobiography and Personal Reminiscences of Major-General Benjamin Butler, Chapter 2: early political action and military training. (search)
been employed by one corporation could be employed in any other in the city without a pass from the first. Thus the lack of this pass meant no work in Lowell. These laboring people had been gathered here almost wholly from the several States in New England, with the single exception of some English and Scotch workmen skilled in the making of cotton and woollen goods. Being brought up with them I knew them to be of the best class of citizens — the sons and daughters of farmers in Maine, Vermont, New Hampshire, and Massachusetts. No better body of citizens, no purer people, ever came together. To the credit of the owners of the mills, it is but just to say, humane, philanthropic, and far-sighted economic business regulations were made, and provisions were established that education should be furnished for the children, and the advantages of religious instruction given to all. Measures were also taken to provide for the morals of the operatives, and houses were built in which th
Benjamnin F. Butler, Butler's Book: Autobiography and Personal Reminiscences of Major-General Benjamin Butler, Chapter 7: recruiting in New England. (search)
ffice. I walked down with him to his house and congratulated him upon his appointment, with which he was as pleased as a child with a rattle. I went thence to Vermont and met Governor Fairbanks. I talked to him pretty much as I had to Governor Buckingham. I told him that I wanted two gentlemen who had been my associates in the Charleston convention appointed colonel and lieutenant-colonel of a regiment which I desired to raise in Vermont. You shall have them, said he. And I want from Vermont a battery in addition,--you have good horses here,--and I will have my men select their own horses; I have a right to pay for them. The cause of the War.Vermont a battery in addition,--you have good horses here,--and I will have my men select their own horses; I have a right to pay for them. The cause of the War. To this he agreed. Col. Stephen Thomas was appointed colonel of that regiment. I then came down through New Hampshire, and met Governor Roby; and he agreed that I might have my selection of colonel of the New Hampshire regiment. I had in that State a very long-time Democratic friend, Capt. Paul R. George, who had been a
Benjamnin F. Butler, Butler's Book: Autobiography and Personal Reminiscences of Major-General Benjamin Butler, Chapter 11: military operations. (search)
ud to be one of you. In this battle the Northeast and Northwest mingled their blood on the field, as they had long ago joined their hearts in the support of the Union. Michigan stood by Maine; Massachusetts supported Indiana; Wisconsin aided Vermont; while Connecticut, represented by the sons of the evergreen shamrock, fought as our fathers did at Boyne Waters. While we all mourn the loss of many brave comrades, we who were absent envy them the privilege of dying upon the battle-field fond the movement so far as to cut off substantially all supplies from Texas to the enemy the coming winter by this route, especially if I should receive early reinforcements. The expedition from Algiers was commanded by Col. Stephen Thomas, of Vermont. No better or braver officer was there in my command to my knowledge. Weitzel landed at Donaldsonville on Sunday, October 26. He soon found the enemy in force, and a sharp engagement ensued in which sixteen men and one officer were killed a
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)
into by a court-martial. Yet Smith sent my letter and his reply, but not my unofficial letter explaining it, to General Rawlings, chief of staff of the lieutenant-general, with a note asking that he might be relieved from his command in the department of Virginia and North Carolina. See Appendix No. 75. Of this General Grant took no notice of which there is any official evidence, and Smith went to Washington without the leave of his commanding general, and there saw Senator Foote, of Vermont, and used influence and what statements I know not with the War Department to get an order from the President giving him command of the Eighteenth Corps, which he then had, having taken it out, in fact, from under my command. All this was done through Major-General Halleck, chief of staff, without any notice to me or explanation sought. The order No. 225 was sent to me directly from Washington, and paragraph I. reads as follows:-- The troops of the Department of North Carolina and Virg
Benjamnin F. Butler, Butler's Book: Autobiography and Personal Reminiscences of Major-General Benjamin Butler, Chapter 21: practice of the law. (search)
unt at pay-day. The only loss to anybody was the diminution of my bank account for fifteen or twenty days for such sums, but I would much rather endure that than be bothered with the bringing of suits. One morning a snappy-eyed old maid from Vermont came into my office and sat herself down and said: Are you lawyer Butler? Yes, madam. I have been to work in the----corporation for five years, and I wanted to go home, and so I told my overseer that I was going home, and asked for my pay.ell, I have got your money and made a receipt for it, and here it is. She said: I knew you would if you would attach the great wheel. How much am I to pay you? Oh, I said, nothing. I will look for my pay to the other side. You can go to Vermont to-morrow morning, if you wish to. She did go, and frequently told the story that I did attach the great wheel, which was a thing that could not be done by any legal legerdemain whatever, because the great wheel is a part of the real estate,