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Benjamnin F. Butler, Butler's Book: Autobiography and Personal Reminiscences of Major-General Benjamin Butler, Chapter 8: from Hatteras to New Orleans. (search)
aft and struggling to get his vessel off in the darkness, not even knowing where he was, made a cluster of dangers and exigencies, at once difficult and terrible, sufficient to tax the greatest energy, courage, quickness of perception, and coolness of thought and judgment of any man in any war before or since. Meantime our fleet destroyed and sunk all of the enemy's vessels, including the ram Manassas. One boat we lost, the Varuna, which was pierced by the ram. She sunk, but not until Captain Boggs had tied her to a tree. Reaching quarantine, above the forts, Captain Bailey of the Cayuga captured the rebel regiment which had been stationed there to prevent my landing. All that had not run away surrendered, and, as Farragut said, I paroled them, for I determined to hasten on and could not take them along, and so left them to the tender mercies of General Butler. Of all this, we below the forts knew nothing. Even the Kennebec, which had got afoul of the cable and had returned
Benjamnin F. Butler, Butler's Book: Autobiography and Personal Reminiscences of Major-General Benjamin Butler, Index. (search)
ves in obedience to orders, 730; colored troops under carry Newmarket Heights, 731-733; attacks Fort Gilmour, 737; sends guard to Butler, 738; Birney's Corps, reference, 858. black, Jeremiah S., opinion regarding Charleston Secession Convention, 151, 155; Counsel for Milligan, 1008. Blaine, Jas. G., reply to Butler's speech on finance, 931-954. Blair, Montgomery, visit to, 287. Blake, Commodore, at Naval Academy, 192-193. Blockade runners, facts in regard to, 965-966. Boggs, Capt., Chas., at Forts Jackson and St. Philip, 367. Bonnegras, Mons., at Baton Rouge, 475. Booth, John Wilkes, Johnson suspected of being in league with, 930; calls on Mr. Johnson, 930; confession of fellow-conspirators with, 931. Boot, Kirk, founder of Lowell, 52; opposition to school, 53-54. Borie, Secretary of the Navy, 823. Boston, reference to, 694, 943; home of Maj. J. L. Stackpole, 897; attempts to annex Charlestown, 1000, 1002. See also Courier. Bottom's Bridge, expediti