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Benjamnin F. Butler, Butler's Book: Autobiography and Personal Reminiscences of Major-General Benjamin Butler, Chapter 7: recruiting in New England. (search)
to be ten hours work to break camp and embark. I could not tell what this telegram meant, and I went immediately to Washington. There I found that the Mason and Slidell matter was in such a condition that it might (as it should have done) result in war with England if she so desired. And if it did, I should have to send down and bring back the part of my troops that had been sent to Ship Island instead of carrying any more there. We waited some twenty or twenty-five days after the 23d of December, when Seward had given his official answer upon the Trent matter, before it was finally decided, and the decision officially communicated to our government by England. During that time, preparations were all completed, camps were broken up, men were got on board ships, horses were forwarded, and two thousand troops remaining at Boston, belonging to my expedition, were shipped, and the Constitution sailed for Fortress Monroe. When I reached Washington General McClellan consented to h
Benjamnin F. Butler, Butler's Book: Autobiography and Personal Reminiscences of Major-General Benjamin Butler, Chapter 12: administration of finances, politics, and justice.--recall. (search)
which they belong, to be dealt with according to the law of said States. Fourth--That the like orders be issued in all cases with respect to the commissioned officers of the United States when found serving in company with said slaves in insurrection against the authorities of the different States of this Confederacy. In testimony whereof, I have signed these presents, and caused the seal of the Confederate States of America to be affixed thereto, at the city of Richmond, on the 23d day of December, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-two. Jefferson Davis. By the President: J. P. Benjamin, Secretary of State. That I was to be recalled was known to Jefferson Davis before it was to me, and the date of my recall, the 9th of November, was forty-five days gone by when that proclamation was published. It was not intended to be published until after I had gone, when it could not, as it did not, have any actual effect upon anybody. I first saw it in New Y
Benjamnin F. Butler, Butler's Book: Autobiography and Personal Reminiscences of Major-General Benjamin Butler, Appendix. (search)
to go in and land the troops. He, therefore, sent in discretionary orders to the officer in charge of the powder-boat not to explode it until we could land. The next day the wind blew strongly; our transports had got short of coal and water, and we were forced to go into Beaufort. I was informed by a naval officer remaining there, that while we were gone there was no time when a landing of troops could have been effected, it was so rough; that it was one steady severe gale. On the 23d of December General Butler sent an officer of his staff to Admiral Porter to inform him that we should be ready to start the next morning. This officer saw Admiral Porter and returned, not getting back until the morning of the 24th. He brought a message from Admiral Porter that the powder-boat would be exploded at one o'clock that morning. [no. 121. see page 790.] North Atlantic Squadron, U. S. flag-Ship Malvern, Beaufort, N. C., Jan. 9, 1865. Hon. Gideon Welles, Secretary of the Navy, Washing