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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)
about the article in which Hancock was slandered in the New York Tribune, but he doesn't say that he told Grant so, because he says that General Grant assigned his connection with that letter as a reason for his removal. And why? Before the 2d of July a complaint was made by General Hancock of this article, asking that the author, who was a reporter at the Headquarters of the Eighteenth Corps, might be dealt with. On the 2d of July Grant sent me the following order:-- City Point, July 2, 1864, 11 o'clock A. M. Major-General Butler: A correspondent, Mr.----, understood to be with your command, has published in the N. Y. Tribune of 27th an article false and slanderous upon a portion of the army now in the field. You will please direct his arrest and have him sent here. U. S. Grant. General Grant obtained an interview with Mr.----, and upon an examination sent him from the army, being satisfied that he wrote the article with the knowledge of Smith, and knowing that when