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Benjamnin F. Butler, Butler's Book: Autobiography and Personal Reminiscences of Major-General Benjamin Butler, Chapter 1: lineage and education. (search)
1804, Sally, born March 11, 1806, and Betsey Morrill, born January 9, 1808. The last of these is now living at Nottingham, New Hampshire, the widow of the late Daniel B. Stevens, Esq. Mrs. Sarah Batchelder Butler died February 23, 1809. John Butler then married Charlotte Ellison, July 21, 1811. She bore him three children. The eldest, Charlotte, born May 13, 1812, died in August, 1839. The second child, Andrew Jackson, was born February 13, 1815, and died February 11, 1864. The third, Benjamin F., was born at Deerfield, New Hampshire, Nov. 5, 1818, about four o'clock in the afternoon. Upon the breaking out of the war of 1812, John Butler applied to the war department for permission to raise a company of light dragoons among his neighbors. Permission was granted, the company was raised, and he was commissioned its captain on the twenty-third of July, 1812. Captain Butler served with his troop on the northern frontier until he broke his left leg. The broken limb was so badly
Benjamnin F. Butler, Butler's Book: Autobiography and Personal Reminiscences of Major-General Benjamin Butler, Chapter 10: the woman order, Mumford's execution, etc. (search)
ebels, as are the heads of those who claim exemption, thus far, from this taxation, made and used for purposes above set forth, upon the ground of their neutrality; among whom I find Rochereau & Co., the senior partner of which firm took an oath of allegiance to support the constitution of the Confederate States. I find also the house of Reichard & Co., the senior partner of which, General Reichard, is in the rebel army. I find the junior partner, Mr. Kruttschnidt, the brother-in-law of Benjamin, the rebel secretary of war, using all the funds in his hands to purchase arms, and collecting the securities of his correspondents before they are due, to get funds to loan to the rebel authorities, and now acting Prussian consul here, doing quite as effective service to the rebels as his partner in the field. I find Mme. Vogel, late partner in the same house of Reichard & Co., now absent, whose funds are managed by that house. I find M. Paesher & Co., bankers, whose clerks and employees
Benjamnin F. Butler, Butler's Book: Autobiography and Personal Reminiscences of Major-General Benjamin Butler, Chapter 12: administration of finances, politics, and justice.--recall. (search)
d not be paid out for any property, or pass from hand to hand as currency, yet they might be traded in by curbstone brokers. These were principally Jews, and as Benjamin, the Confederate Secretary of State, was a Jew, and his brother-in-law was a broker, I supposed there were some of the Jew brokers who would get true intelligencertain the reports were not true, because my curbstone cash barometer said so. In the face of this report, that the Rebellion had conquered, I found the tribe of Benjamin, the Jewish Secretary of State, were all selling, and not buying, Confederate notes. I ordered weekly reports of the condition of the banks, and I was so certto, at the city of Richmond, on the 23d day of December, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-two. Jefferson Davis. By the President: J. P. Benjamin, Secretary of State. That I was to be recalled was known to Jefferson Davis before it was to me, and the date of my recall, the 9th of November, was forty
Benjamnin F. Butler, Butler's Book: Autobiography and Personal Reminiscences of Major-General Benjamin Butler, Index. (search)
761; loses his vote, 770. Bell, Maj., Jos. M., services on Frying-Pan Shoals, 343; describes passage of forts, 366; as member of Lafourche confiscation committee, 521; a provost judge, 526; token of esteem given by New Orleans bar, 540; on Butler's staff, 893; reference to, 897. Bell, Capt., John, cuts chain cable in Mississippi, 363; passes the forts, 365. Bendix, Col. John E., at Big Bethel, 269, 270, 275. Benham, General, brings pontoon bridge to City Point, 683-684. Benjamin, Judah P., Confederate Secretary of War, 435; Secretary of State, 510; grudge against Butler, 546; caution in displaying it, 548. Bennings' [old] Georgia Brigade, position near Richmond, 723. Bermuda hundred, position of, 622, 627, 857; occupied on Butler's forces, 640, 642, 855, 862;, Eighteenth Corps called front, 671; Confederates reconnoitre, 672; Eighteenth Corps return, 685; Confederates evacuate lines at, 704; troops embark for Fort Fisher, 785; expedition from 628, 677, 687, 693, 7