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Benjamnin F. Butler, Butler's Book: Autobiography and Personal Reminiscences of Major-General Benjamin Butler, Chapter 17: Fort Fisher. (search)
Fort Fisher was under investigation by the Committee on the Conduct of the War, I sent, by a gentleman of my staff, certain questions to be answered by Maj.-Gen. W. H. C. Whiting of the Confederate army, under whose supervision as an engineer during two years Fort Fisher was built. I did not take his deposition in form, because the sanction of an oath, and he gave me his dying declarations, which are received in law in cases of murder as effective as testimony given on the stand. General Whiting's statement was received as testimony by the Committtee on the Conduct of the War General Whiting desired that the questions might be put, and that he might aGeneral Whiting desired that the questions might be put, and that he might answer them separately in his own way, which, of course, he was permitted to do, and every one of his answers directly contradicts Porter where they speak of the same matter. I submit the testimony with great confidence to the judgment of the reader. See Appendix No. 124. The Committee on the Conduct of the War investigated th
Benjamnin F. Butler, Butler's Book: Autobiography and Personal Reminiscences of Major-General Benjamin Butler, Appendix. (search)
ly upon that accession to my present force, I would take the offensive, and attack Butler vigorously. Such a move would throw me directly upon Butler's communications, and, as he now stands, with his right flank well turned toward his rear, General Whiting should also move simultaneously, and Butler must necessarily be crushed or captured, and all the stores of that army would then fall into our hands; an amount, probably, that would make an interruption of our communications for a period of a, although deriving much greater advantages from the different mode of attack by the fleet, and though pressed with greater vigor, it is due to the supineness of the Confederate general that it was not destroyed in the act of assault. . . . W. H. C. Whiting, Major-General P. A. C. S., Prisoner of War. [No. 125. See pages 794 and 796.] testimony of Major-General Weitzel. Report of the Committee on the Conduct of the War, Fort Fisher Expedition, p. 72. I pushed a skirmish line to, I th
Benjamnin F. Butler, Butler's Book: Autobiography and Personal Reminiscences of Major-General Benjamin Butler, Index. (search)
es information of, 795; attack abandoned, 796; why expedition was a failure, 798, 807; second expedition to, 807-808, 819; Porter quoted, 809, 812, 818, 819, 820; Colonel Lamb reports upon, 810,813,816; General Weitzel reports upon, 816-817; General Whiting reports upon, 820; Butler justified in refusing to assault, 821; Farragut advises Butler against expedition, 823; reference to, 831-832, 849; Butler's defeat at, an excuse for his removal, 850. Fort Gilmour, Confederates repulse attack up635. Western Union Telegraph Co., Butler's arrangements with, 759-760. Western Bay State Regiment, State aid promised to, 309; enlistment of, 310; drawing lots in peril off Hatteras, 344. Wetmore, Gen. Prosper M., makes a toast, 773. Whiting, Major-General, quoted upon the Fort Fisher attack, 794, 798, 804, 810; aids the construction of Fort Fisher, 812; dying declarations of, 820. Whelden, Lieutenant-Colonel, letter to regarding State aid, 309-310. Wickliffe, Governor, at Bat