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Benjamnin F. Butler, Butler's Book: Autobiography and Personal Reminiscences of Major-General Benjamin Butler, Appendix. (search)
31, 1864. Hon. Gideon wells, Secretary of the Navy, Washington, D. C.: . . . General Bragg must have been very agreeably disappointed when he saw our troops going away without firing a shot, and to see an expedition costing millions of dollars given up when the hollowness of the rebel shell was about to be exposed.... I am, sir, very respectfully, your obedient servant, David D. Porter, Rear-Admiral. Conduct of the War, No. 5, p. 171. [no. 140. see page 818.] Porter's report of Dec. 29 to Hon. Gideon Welles, Secretary of the Navy. At no time did I permit the vessels to open on them with all their batteries, limiting some of them to about two shots a minute, and permitting the large vessels to fight only one division of guns at a time. [no. 141. see pages 810 and 818.] North Atlantic Squadron, United States flag-Ship Malvern, at sea, off New Inlet, North Carolina, Dec. 26. Hon. Gideon Welles, Secretary of the Navy: . . . At daylight, on the 24th, the fleet got un