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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)
done, and yielded only under that pressure of ambition for the highest office which has caused so many next in position to murder their chief to attain his place. Such effects of overweening ambition are strung along as guide-posts through the whole history of the governments of the world. That this condition of my feeling toward Grant is no afterthought of mine, and that I understood the circumstances of my removal as fully then as now, is shown by a letter written by me on the 13th of January, 1865, to Gen. John A. Rawlins, chief of General Grant's staff, who was not a West Point officer, but above them all, and afterwards became Secretary of War. See Appendix No. 146. I never spoke with General. Grant upon these matters until shortly after his inauguration as President, when a mutual friend, Geo. Wilkes, Esq., spoke to him of the occurrence and told him of my feelings and views in regard to it. Grant said to him: I would like to see General Butler; will he come to see me?
Benjamnin F. Butler, Butler's Book: Autobiography and Personal Reminiscences of Major-General Benjamin Butler, Appendix. (search)
ed and loaded and all preparations made for starting by the time your troops can be relieved by the troops of General Butler, after such movement on the part of the enemy is discovered. A copy of this will be forwarded to General Butler with instructions to carry out his part promptly, moving night as well as day, if the contingency should arise. U. S. Grant, Lieutenant-General. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant, Vol. II., p. 150. [no. 146. see page 853.] [Private.] Fortress Monroe, Jan. 13, 1865. My Dear Rawlins:--You know that I like to see a thing well done if done at all, and I must say my enemies about your headquarters are very bungling in their malice, and will bring the General into remark. Take the article in the Herald by Cadwallader, and it will appear to have been dictated at headquarters, where I know the General had nothing to do with it. It was not telegraphed, and to have reached Tuesday's Herald must have left in the mail boat at 10 A. M., when the order for