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Benjamnin F. Butler, Butler's Book: Autobiography and Personal Reminiscences of Major-General Benjamin Butler, Chapter 2: early political action and military training. (search)
filled the vacancy by election from the two having the highest number of votes. If a candidate for representative failed of an election on the second Monday of November, such vacancy might be filled by an election in his town to be held on the fourth Monday of November. Thus it will be seen that if the Free-Soilers and DemocratNovember. Thus it will be seen that if the Free-Soilers and Democrats ran separate candidates for each office, their combined vote would be counted against the Whig candidate in every case to prevent his election. An understanding was arrived at between the leaders of the Free-Soil and Democratic parties, that, in counties where it was possible to elect a senator by joint ballot, both should noa large number of towns, and a considerable number had voted not to send any, as a means of avoiding another election to fill the vacancy on the fourth Monday of November. Upon a careful examination of the returns and of the probable number of representatives who would be elected on that day, it was quite apparent that the nine t
Benjamnin F. Butler, Butler's Book: Autobiography and Personal Reminiscences of Major-General Benjamin Butler, Chapter 9: taking command of a Southern City. (search)
o come up under forty days. Having shut the door against our destroying enemy and fastened it securely, I engaged the most competent medical director in the matter of yellow fever there was in the country, Doctor MacCormick, who fought it in New Orleans through the siege of 1853. Before he came I procured a perfectly competent quarantine officer, to whom I was to pay double the salary of the State quarantine officer upon the ground that I did not need his services between the middle of November and the middle of May. This quarantine officer was engaged under a specific contract that he was to have no responsibility for himself and his assistants, except to make true reports of the condition of the vessels, after a full and intelligent examination. And as the health and lives of so many would be dependent upon the truth of those reports, he was notified that any remissness in his duty would be punished with the heaviest punishment known. The next requirement that complicated t
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)
etime in December, yet, the order of my recall was dated quite contemporaneously with the one relieving George B. McClellan from command, to wit: a day after the November election, so that it might appear as if the Republican administration had determined to put out of command all generals who had heretofore been Democrats, and tos an enormous improvement upon Reverdy Johnson, because he was a loyal, honest man. Seward's appointment of Banks to supersede me was announced as soon as the November elections were over. The results of these elections, he says in a letter Seward at Washington, p. 142. to his wife, were very deplorable:-- November came,November came, and with it the election in the various States. The returns were ominous and disheartening enough. Everywhere there was reaction of feeling, adverse to the administration. In the strong Republican States majorities were reduced. In all others, the opposition was triumphant, and the administration party defeated. . . . Among t
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)
Butler's plan for attack on Newmarket Heights an order: respectfully submitted to critics gallant and brilliant charge of the colored division on Fort Newmarket and capture of Fort Harrison by General Ord Butler gets between the lines Lee's vain attempt to retake the position Butler's log-house headquarters courage of colored troops demonstrated Medals for bravery Dutch Gap Canal: dug and blown out to let the fleet up the River, and then the Navy is afraid to go sent to New York in November to insure a fair election suppressing a militia commander troops in ferry-boats all about the City August Belmont wants to bet the gold conspiracy how Butler kept the price down Butler offered post of Secretary of War banquet to Butler Beecher names him for President an unfortunate affair In August we had a small holding on the north side of the James River at a point known as Deep Bottom. General Grant wanted to get north of the James still further up so that if it became conve
Benjamnin F. Butler, Butler's Book: Autobiography and Personal Reminiscences of Major-General Benjamin Butler, Chapter 18: why I was relieved from command. (search)
ion dollars, over a quarter of a million of which I turned over to my successor. Some of the advantages of having this money at my disposal will be appreciated when I say that in July, 1864, the treasury being very empty so that we could not get money with which to pay our sick and wounded soldiers in the hospital so that they could go home, I loaned $49,000 to the paymaster to pay them so that they might go, and he paid the money back to me when he got his money from the treasury. In the November following, the quartermaster's department was short of money; the laborers struck for their pay and wages, because they could not live if they were not paid with regularity. I then loaned the quartermaster $53,000 to pay them up and keep the quartermaster's department going until funds could be received from Washington. This civil fund was a handy thing to have in the house. General Grant said that he learned after I was removed that there had been other arbitrary arrests. That was tr
Benjamnin F. Butler, Butler's Book: Autobiography and Personal Reminiscences of Major-General Benjamin Butler, Chapter 20: Congressman and Governor. (search)
r of Massachusetts by long custom and law can do, and that is to issue a proclamation appointing in the spring a day of fasting and prayer, and in the autumn after the harvest a day of thanksgiving. Thanks-giving is usually the last Thursday of November, and the day of fasting and prayer is the first Thursday of April. To state the fact exactly, I had forgotten my duty as to the fasting proclamation. A few days before the time, the Secretary of State came into the executive office, and saidferring it. When the necessity for the proclamation of Thanksgiving came I took time to write my own proclamation and it passed muster without a word of adverse criticism, but that was perhaps because it was issued after my defeat at the November election. At the wishes of my friends I entered into the canvass for a re-election and a very bitter and fatiguing one it was. The Republican party, knowing that if I was re-elected it had lost the State, possibly for all time, put forth ever
Benjamnin F. Butler, Butler's Book: Autobiography and Personal Reminiscences of Major-General Benjamin Butler, Chapter 21: practice of the law. (search)
where I found the men under my command affected with scurvy. Not one of the doctors of their regiment had reported it to me, and I found out the fact myself only because I inspected my own hospitals and knew what I was looking for. I have mentioned above that in preparing cases I have had to spend days in a machine shop, and I will state a case in which that happened, as an encouragement and an instruction to my young friends of the bar as to how I think a case should be prepared. In November of the year 1852, it will be remembered, General Franklin Pierce of New Hampshire was elected President. In the December following, himself, his wife, and only son, a lad about ten years old, got on board the cars at Boston to go to their home at Concord, New Hampshire. When about twenty-four or twenty-five miles from Boston, and between two and three miles from the town of Andover, the train was derailed by the breaking of the forward axle of the tender on the left side. The train happe
Benjamnin F. Butler, Butler's Book: Autobiography and Personal Reminiscences of Major-General Benjamin Butler, Appendix. (search)
t for the return of your troops quickly. The order contemplated your return with them, and if not specified on the official telegraph was omitted by the inadvertence of the adjutant-general. You have leave to remain till Monday if you desire to do so. (Signed) E. M. Stanton, Secretary of War. [no. 97. see page 779.] Washington, Dec. 1, 1864. Major-General Butler: Telegram received. One hundred tons mining powder was sent from New York and Boston between the 24th and last of November to Captain Edson at Fortress Monroe, who is ordered to hold the same subject to your order; fifty tons will leave New York in a day or two. A. B. Dyer, Chief of Ordnance. [no. 98. see page 780.] headquarters Army of the James, in the field, Nov. 30, 1864. Admiral Porter: Brigadier-General Wild will hand you this note, and brings also orders to General Palmer about the matter of which we were speaking. Please give him an order, to be transmitted through him to the commander of your