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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)
ght and signed a written confession, and the property was substantially all recovered. A notice was put in the newspapers for everybody whose house had been robbed to come to the provost marshal's office and identify their property and take it. Everything was restored except three or four hundred dollars that they had spent out of the money. They had up to that time made no division of spoils. I then, by General Order 98, sentenced three of them to be executed at the parish prison on the 16th. The next day I tried the rest of them and they were convicted, and substantially confessed all. Five of them in all were condemned to execution. One, a boy, at the intercession of his mother and upon evidence that he had not been a bad boy before his connection with the gang, and being only a sort of page for them, I sentenced to prison for a short term. The man that confessed and turned State's evidence, as is the phrase, I sentenced to Ship Island at hard labor for five years. The re
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)
e State of Texas. By order of the Secretary of War: H. W. Halleck, General-in-Chief. E. D. Townsend, Assistant Adjutant-General. On December 14 and 15, I was engaged in finishing up the accumulated business of my command. On Tuesday, the 16th, General Banks was presented by me to the officers and soldiers of his new command. I commended him to their kindest regard, stating our friendship for many years. On the 16th, he took formal command of the army by an order published that day. 16th, he took formal command of the army by an order published that day. I then commenced turning over to him and his officers all the public property in the possession of myself and officers, taking care to take duplicate receipts for everything, as was my business habit. The amount was comparatively large, in all amounting to nearly a million dollars. As I had received no order detailing me elsewhere, I spent some days in giving General Banks all the information I possessed concerning the military situation of the department and the details of my plan for an imm
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)
was unable to deliver until between four and five o'clock in the morning of the 16th, owing to the fact that General Smith could not be found. His staff officers ded had Hancock hold the lines with his men. If Smith had moved at daylight on the 16th, as I rather think he meant to do, then Smith's troops would lead the column and crossed the James River on the 15th, and substantially all of it by noon of the 16th, Lee had no knowledge of that fact. Indeed, he had lost Grant's army entirely, terference of mine with the attack on Petersburg, because, on the morning of the 16th, Petersburg was invested by the army of General Grant under his own command. vision to Petersburg. Johnson evacuated the Bermuda Hundred line at dawn on the 16th, and arrived in Petersburg at 10 A. M. Thus reinforced, Beauregard had an effective force in Petersburg of ten thousand men. On the 16th and on the 17th after dusk Gracie's brigade arrived, twelve hundred strong. Military Operations of General
Benjamnin F. Butler, Butler's Book: Autobiography and Personal Reminiscences of Major-General Benjamin Butler, Chapter 17: Fort Fisher. (search)
r in charge, and then stood twenty-five miles out to sea, and found the Minnesota and some of the large vessels out there. I spoke them and inquired if they knew where Admiral Porter was. They said they did not, but supposed he was at Beaufort; that they could not get in the harbor of Beaufort, and therefore had come along. Expecting him momentarily, I did not come to anchor, but steamed under what steamboat men call one bell, --steamed slowly around all that night. On the evening of the 16th, not seeing Admiral Porter, I stood in towards land with the blockading fleet, my transport fleet still remaining at Masonboroa Inlet, with the exception of my own vessel and a little boat for a tender. I waited that day, which was very fine, and waited also the next day. The sea was so smooth that I lowered my gig and took a row for pleasure. There was not wind enough to fill the sail of a yawl boat that was let down. I sent General Weitzel and Colonel Comstock on the Chamberlain to mak
Benjamnin F. Butler, Butler's Book: Autobiography and Personal Reminiscences of Major-General Benjamin Butler, Chapter 18: why I was relieved from command. (search)
s confidence, or had more personal influence with General Grant upon public questions than I had. Grant in his report of the operations of the armies of the United States, dated July 22, 1865, was thoughtless enough to use a phrase — I say thoughtless because his explanation which I shall set out will show that it was so done — which was used more to my prejudice with the people of the country than anything else he could have said. The following is al extract from that report:-- On the 16th (of May) the enemy attacked General Butler in his position in front of Drury's Bluff. He was forced back or drew back into his intrenchments in the forks between the James and Appomattox Rivers. The enemy intrenched strongly in his front which cut him off from his railroads, the city, and all that was valuable to him. His army, therefore, though in a position of great security, was as completely shut off from further operations directly against Richmond as if it had been in a bottle strongl
Benjamnin F. Butler, Butler's Book: Autobiography and Personal Reminiscences of Major-General Benjamin Butler, Appendix. (search)
'clock noon of the 14th, Wednesday, I joined the transport fleet off Cape Henry, and put to sea, arriving at the place of rendezvous off New Inlet, near Fort Fisher, on the evening of the 15th, Thursday. We there waited for the navy Friday, the 16th, Saturday, the 17th, and Sunday, the 18th, during which days we had the finest possible weather and the smoothest sea. On the evening of the 18th, Admiral Porter came from Beaufort to the place of rendezvous. That evening the sea became rough,ogether with the fact that the navy had exhausted their supply of ammunition in the bombardment, left me with no alternative but to return with my troops to the Army of the James. The loss of the opportunity of Friday, Saturday, and Sunday, the 16th, 17th, and 18th, was the immediate cause of the failure of the expedition. It is not my province even to suggest blame to the navy for their delay of four days at Beaufort. I know none of the reasons which do or do not justify it. It is to be