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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)
in the world. That was true, but not in the way it was supposed. The negroes all came and told me anything they thought I wanted to know. I never let it be known that one of them spoke to me upon any subject. I had nobody else hear that class of informers. They would tell me the exact truth, so far as they understood it, and if it was anything of worth, they received from my hands some small compensation. Let me give two examples of the manner in which that system worked. Early in June I was informed that there was a sewing bee in the house of one of the first ladies of New Orleans and that they were making a flag to send to a New Orleans regiment in Beauregard's army at Corinth. This flag was of the finest embroidered silk, trimmed with gold fringe and very handsomely ornamented. After I got the information I waited quietly until the flag was finished and a nice canvas case made for it. This case was also embroidered, as one doesn't want an unfinished flag. Then I sent
Benjamnin F. Butler, Butler's Book: Autobiography and Personal Reminiscences of Major-General Benjamin Butler, Chapter 11: military operations. (search)
lth officer was not received on board to examine a vessel, he was to drop his hospital flag into his boat as a signal, and if the vessel then proceeded up the river, she was, at all hazards, to be stopped before she reached the forts. I believed I could justify myself in relying upon this course of law in firing upon the French vessels if they attempted to pass the forts without obeying my quarantine regulations. And a shot in return would justify the whole fire of both forts. Early in June I learned that an attempt was to be made to organize a revolt and insurrection in New Orleans with the intent to recapture the place. On the 10th of June, Beauregard's armies commenced to scatter. A great many conscripts were disbanded; and they came to New Orleans, not as paroled soldiers but as stragglers from the Confederate army. As portions of Beauregard's army might be sent down to make an attack on the city,--as they afterwards were under Breckinridge,--it was necessary for me to
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)
s no honorable, decent, well-disposed man could have written under any possible temptation. It contains calumnies upon myself as well as upon General Grant. Fortunately I am alive to contradict them. Smith says in this letter that the last of June or the first of July, 1864, General Grant, accompanied by myself, came to his (Smith's) headquarters, and that the lieutenant-general, after having been there a while said to me: General, that drink of whiskey I took has done me good, and then askd. My wishes were now reluctantly complied with, and I assigned him to the command of one of the corps under General Butler. I was not long in finding out that the objections to Smith's promotion were well founded. Then in the latter part of June he says Grant called at his Headquarters. Knowing Grant's infirmity, he claims he gave him liquor sufficient to make him drunk, and then went out to see him on his horse, but called the attention of his staff officer as a witness to the condition
Benjamnin F. Butler, Butler's Book: Autobiography and Personal Reminiscences of Major-General Benjamin Butler, Chapter 16: capture of fortifications around Richmond, Newmarket Heights, Dutch Gap Canal, elections in New York and gold conspiracy. (search)
ces wherever our army marched, dividing the lands in the rebel States among our soldiers to be theirs and their heirs forever. A harsh measure, it may be said, but is it not quite as just as to tax ourselves, and thus raise the price of the necessaries of life for the purpose of giving bounty to support the soldier in fighting those rebellious men, whom we have three times over solemnly called to come and enjoy with us the blessings of our liberties and be friends,--saying in 1862, come in June; in 1863, come in December; in 1864, come by the 8th of January, 1865. When the clock strikes the last knell of that parting day, then all hope to those who have not made progress to return should be put off forever and ever. No longer should they be permitted to live on the land or even within the boundaries of the United States. Let them go to Mexico, to the islands of the sea, or some place that I do not care to name,--because I know no land bad enough to be cursed with their presence —
Benjamnin F. Butler, Butler's Book: Autobiography and Personal Reminiscences of Major-General Benjamin Butler, Chapter 18: why I was relieved from command. (search)
other generals, when he was absent, were unwilling to be commanded by me. That was a fact that he had always known from the beginning of the campaign, and yet the command of all the troops in Virginia had been devolved upon me by Grant three times as the senior major-general in the army. He adds another reason which is, that the administration of the affairs of my department was objectionable. That is answered by the fact that he had never hinted to me any cause of dissatisfaction, and in June Halleck had sent down General Meigs, quartermaster-general of all the armies, and General Barnard, chief engineer of the Army of the Potomac, to examine into my acts in the command of the Army of the James, and into my administration of the affairs of my department, and they had reported to Halleck that I had shown rare and great ability in the administrative duties of the department. On the 11th of January, being then at Fortress Monroe, I telegraphed to General Grant as follows:-- I h
Benjamnin F. Butler, Butler's Book: Autobiography and Personal Reminiscences of Major-General Benjamin Butler, Appendix. (search)
er No. 36, adjutant-general's office, July 28, 1864. [no. 80. see page 696.] [Copy.] College Point, L. I., July 30, 1864. Hon. S. Foot: Dear Senator:--I am extremely anxious that my friends in my native State should not think that the reasons of General Grant relieving me from duty was brought about by any misconduct of mine, and, therefore, I write to put you in possession of such facts in the case as I am aware of, and think will throw light upon the subject. About the very last of June or the first of July, Generals Grant and Butler came to my headquarters and shortly after their arrival, General Grant turned to General Butler, and said: That drink of whiskey I took has done me good, and then directly afterwards asked me for a drink. My servant opened a bottle for him and he drank of it, when the bottle was corked up and put away. I was aware at this time that General Grant had within six months pledged himself to drink nothing intoxicating, but did not feel it would bett