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Benjamnin F. Butler, Butler's Book: Autobiography and Personal Reminiscences of Major-General Benjamin Butler, Chapter 5: Baltimore and Fortress Monroe. (search)
as it was distant more than the half day's march to which I was restricted by my orders, I wrote to General Scott that I proposed to make the reconnoissance in person that very day, with the intention, if I found it practical, of seizing Newport News, and intrenching a force there by which this important point could always be held unless our government lost control of Hampton Roads. Therefore I embarked at midday with twenty-five men and three gentlemen of my staff. We steamed up past Sewall's Point, being saluted from the enemy's battery there by a cannon shot, the ball of which fell far short of its mark. I then answered the salute in derision with a rival shot from a rifle, which carried its bullet as far as the enemy's cannon. We landed at a little jetty at Newport News, and climbed the banks. Here there burst upon my sight one of the finest scenes that I ever beheld. At the point nearest the river was a farmer's house shaded by some very fine elms, and a field of some sixty
Benjamnin F. Butler, Butler's Book: Autobiography and Personal Reminiscences of Major-General Benjamin Butler, Chapter 6: contraband of War, Big Bethel and Hatteras. (search)
oops fire upon each other in front of the breastworks orders disobeyed and attack given up enemy's condition investigated battle of Bull Run General Wool sent to Fortress Monroe attack on the forts at Hatteras their surrender midnight ride to Washington telling welcome news to the President a Waltz en Dishabille goes home to Lowell the battle of Bull Run critically considered On the day after my arrival at the fort, May 23, three negroes were reported coming in a boat from Sewall's Point, where the enemy was building a battery. Thinking that some information as to that work might be got from them, I had them before me. I learned that they were employed on the battery on the Point, which as yet was a trifling affair. There were only two guns there, though the work was laid out to be much. larger and to be heavily mounted with guns captured from the navy-yard. The negroes said they belonged to Colonel Mallory, who commanded the Virginia troops around Hampton, and that
Benjamnin F. Butler, Butler's Book: Autobiography and Personal Reminiscences of Major-General Benjamin Butler, Chapter 13: occupations in 1863; exchange of prisoners. (search)
authorities that any alleviation of the condition of our men, duly certified to us, would at once be followed by a corresponding difference in favor of their prisoners in our hands. The Secretary of War, feeling deeply the hardships of our captured soldiers, approved of the suggestion, Gen. J. W. Shaffer. and gave me permission to carry the plan into execution. This I proposed to do by placing Confederate officers to the number of some three thousand, either upon Hatteras Bank or at Sewall's Point near Fortress Munroe, both of which were nearly isothermal with Richmond in climate, and there treating them with scrupulous exactness to the same shelter, clothing, and fare which our men received, furnishing them while thus faring, with plenty of pens and paper, and every facility for communicating with the Confederacy. The effect could not be doubted. While I was engaged in preparing a proper encampment, the subject was referred by the Secretary of War to the general-in-chief of the