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Frederick H. Dyer, Compendium of the War of the Rebellion: Regimental Histories 257 257 Browse Search
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Horace Greeley, The American Conflict: A History of the Great Rebellion in the United States of America, 1860-65: its Causes, Incidents, and Results: Intended to exhibit especially its moral and political phases with the drift and progress of American opinion respecting human slavery from 1776 to the close of the War for the Union. Volume II. 5 5 Browse Search
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Benjamnin F. Butler, Butler's Book: Autobiography and Personal Reminiscences of Major-General Benjamin Butler, Chapter 17: Fort Fisher. (search)
ithin an hour when he would be ready to start. See Appendix No. 106. It will thus be seen that Admiral Porter promised to notify me on the morning of the 7th of December. I had to make all my arrangements by verbal instructions and orders. On the 6th of December I issued, through my chief of staff, Brigadier-General Turner, ed to make, and to blow out Dutch Gap Canal. See Appendix No. 108. I answered at once that orders had been given to carry out these instructions. On the 7th of December my chief of staff received a telegram from my quartermaster, Colonel Dodge, that he could furnish certain meagre transportation. See Appendix No. 109. Thiso. 110. That fact I knew because the Baltic had reported to me at Annapolis with released prisoners. Receiving information from Colonel Dodge in the evening of December 7, that he was now fully prepared to ship the troops, I telegraphed General Grant that General Weitzel's command was encamped at Signal Tower awaiting orders, and
Benjamnin F. Butler, Butler's Book: Autobiography and Personal Reminiscences of Major-General Benjamin Butler, Appendix. (search)
Grant. Upon his return, I asked him whether the general was satisfied with what we had done. He said, yes, he was perfectly satisfied with it. Question.--Who was that officer, selected by the War Department, to whom General Grant objected? Answer.--General Gillmore. [no. 126. see page 798.] headquarters Department of Virginia and North Carolina, Army of the James, in the field, Jan. 3, 1865. Lieut.-Gen. U. S. Grant, Commanding armies of the United States: General:--On the 7th of December last, in obedience to your orders, I moved a force of about sixty-five hundred efficient men, consisting of General Ames' division of the Twenty-Fourth Corps, and General Paine's division of the Twenty-Fifth Corps, under command of Major-General Weitzel, to an encampment near Bermuda. On the 8th the troops embarked for Fortress Monroe. On the 9th, Friday, I reported to Rear-Admiral Porter that the army portion of the conjoint expedition directed against Wilmington was ready to pro