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Benjamnin F. Butler, Butler's Book: Autobiography and Personal Reminiscences of Major-General Benjamin Butler, Chapter 18: why I was relieved from command. (search)
that West Point officers knew the whole art of war and were ready-made generals. McDowell was only a major in the regular army when he fought the first battle of Bull Run, and had had no experience with troops. A few — but not too many — of those officers read military books. It is wonderful how soon this claim of theirs burst out after the war commenced, and even then how little ambition for fighting these men had. I was sent as major-general commanding to Fortress Monroe on the 22d of May, 1861, and I was told by General Scott that I was fortunate in having there some sixteen young officers who would aid me in organizing troops. Now, of those sixteen young men, ten had had relations with General Taylor, who was commissary general of the army, and they at once got detailed to positions in the commissary department where they could buy pork and beans for the army, which was thought to be a very soft place. Four of the others got detailed into the quartermaster-general's depart