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Benjamnin F. Butler, Butler's Book: Autobiography and Personal Reminiscences of Major-General Benjamin Butler, Chapter 5: Baltimore and Fortress Monroe. (search)
t. At any rate, if the Confederacy had made the capture by such a bold and brilliant dash, it would have been a disaster to our government of almost incalculable weight and potency. Maryland undoubtedly would have hastened to join the Confederacy in such a contingency. That would have transferred the line of battle from the Potomac to the Susquehanna. Very probably Delaware would have in that event joined the Confederacy, or at least have remained neutral, as her leading statesman, Senator Bayard, said that if the war could not be averted, and if his State preferred war to the peaceful separation of the States, he would cheerfully and gladly resign his seat in the Senate. As it was, however, gallant little Delaware remained always loyal and sent sixty odd per cent. of her military population — that is, white men between eighteen and forty-five years of age — to do good service in the Union army. Jefferson Davis could have, and if I had been at his elbow, as he once desired t
Benjamnin F. Butler, Butler's Book: Autobiography and Personal Reminiscences of Major-General Benjamin Butler, Index. (search)
744; approves cutting Dutch Gap Canal, 747; examines Butler's Department, 832; in Grant's personal Memoirs, 856; originates offensive phrase, Bottled up, 854-856. Barnwell, South Carolina, secession commissioner, 156. Bartlett, Sidney, tribute to, 116-117. Bartlett, General, exchanged as prisoners, 597-598. Barron, S., Confederate Commander at Fort Hatteras, 284. Barry, Governor at Charleston Convention, 136-127. Baton Rouge, seized by Farragut, 455; battle of, 480-487. Bayard, Senator Thomas F., 221. Beaufort, N. C., occupied by Union forces, 617; attacked, 618; transport fleet renew coal and water at, 789; Porter replenishes ammunition at, 797, 798. Beauregard, Gen. P. T., asks for church bells to cast into cannon, 384; reads Woman order to his army, 420; consideration shown his family by Butler, 425; letter to Lovell regarding Vicksburg, 457; abandons his command, 458, 464, 470; reference to, 477, 646, 657; attacks Bermuda Hundred, 665-666; sends men to L