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The Annals of the Civil War Written by Leading Participants North and South (ed. Alexander Kelly McClure), The First iron-clad Monitor. (search)
the Department any merit, and utterly ignored its ingenious and scientific assistants. It was asserted on the floor of Congress, as late as 1868, by General Benjamin F. Butler, one of the leading and most influential politicians of that day: I desire to say here, that the country is under the greatest obligations to a member oe was a candidate for the office of Governor of New York. He not only quietly listened, without any attempt to correct what he knew to be the misstatement of General Butler, but a paper published at his place of residence, and of which I was informed he was a part owner, repeated many times the averment, and asserted that Mr. Griry were known to the Department that awarded the contract. Instead of advancing the money and paying the entire expense out of his own funds, as stated by General Butler, payments were promptly made by the Navy Department to Mr. Griswold and his associates, as rapidly, at least, as the work progressed, and was certified to by
The Annals of the Civil War Written by Leading Participants North and South (ed. Alexander Kelly McClure), The Exchange of prisoners. (search)
some of them thought that the story, real or exaggerated, of the sufferings of the prisoners would fire the Northern heart. Be all this as it may, I suppose no one is prepared to challenge the suspension of the cartel as an unwise military expedient in a Federal point of view. In other aspects of the case it was not quite so clever. In the early spring of 1864, still desirous of restoring the cartel, even with modifications if they were pressed, I determined to invoke the aid of General B. F. Butler, having learned that it would not be disagreeable to him to have an interview. General Butler some months before that time had been appointed Federal Agent of Exchange. The Confederate Government very unwisely, as I then thought, and now think, had refused to recognize him as an agent of exchange, or to hold any intercourse with him as such. About the time of his appointment he sent a detachment of prisoners, requiring, however, a return delivery of a like number of such as were in
The Annals of the Civil War Written by Leading Participants North and South (ed. Alexander Kelly McClure), Union view of the Exchange of prisoners. (search)
with the negroes as a measure of degradation. In December, 1863, General Benjamin F. Butler was made Federal Commissioner of Exchange, by an order from the War Dent refused to communicate with him, because Jeff Davis had, at one time during Butler's military administration at New Orleans, issued a proclamation, solemnly and pompously declaring General Butler an outlaw. All communications from the Confederate Government, for a time, were addressed to Major Mulford, who was in command of tr; but the Confederates soon saw their folly, and subsequently treated with General Butler in relation to the exchange of prisoners. But the refusal to treat with GeGeneral Butler was another obstruction thrown in the way of the exchange of prisoners used by the Confederate Government. A cartel binds both belligerent parties, a It must be borne in mind that President Davis issued his orders declaring General Butler an outlaw, and had refused to exchange General Streight and his officers, b
The Annals of the Civil War Written by Leading Participants North and South (ed. Alexander Kelly McClure), The First attack on Fort Fisher (search)
at the explosion might be effectual. When General Butler returned from New York, he found that the eral is here. What general? I inquired. General Butler, he answered. He is at Fort Monroe. I hat to the fort; I sent in my credentials to General Butler, and we were invited to his quarters, whern the morning of the 9th of December, when General Butler notified the Admiral that his troops were replenished, and the storm had passed by, General Butler sent one of his aides (Captain Clark), in in the attack without waiting for the troops. Butler could not believe the report to be correct, beiral, seventy miles from the scene of action. Butler and Porter made arrangements to renew the attaans, with ten commissioned officers, from whom Butler learned that Hoke's Division had been detached thoroughly reconnoitred the fort, reported to Butler that in his judgment, and that of the officerse Nationals. Considering all of these things, Butler ordered the troops to withdraw and re-embark. [12 more...]
The Annals of the Civil War Written by Leading Participants North and South (ed. Alexander Kelly McClure), The Dalton-Atlanta operations. (search)
lf, into an extensive thicket, which compelled the Southern troops to halt when otherwise they were not opposed. Two hours after we were slightly attacked-by a reconnoitering party, probably; it was so easily repelled. We made no other attack, but held our ground till after nightfall, to carry off our wounded. Our army remained in line nearly parallel to the Goldsboroa road, to remove the wounded to Smithfield. Its flanks were somewhat thrown back — the left only of cavalry skirmishers. Butler's cavalry was observing the right Federal column; Wheeler's arrived from Averysboroa the evening of the 19th. Mower's movement (see page 304) was made after three o'clock; for he had proceeded but a mile and a half when attacked and driven back, about half-past 4 o'clock, being then in rear of our centre where orders could not reach him. So the skirmishing mentioned on page 304 must have been very brief. Our men, being intrenched, easily drove off the enemy. In reference to wide discrepan
The Annals of the Civil War Written by Leading Participants North and South (ed. Alexander Kelly McClure), A ruse of War. (search)
A ruse of War. Captain John Scott. When General Butler landed at City Point and Bermuda Hundreds, in the spring of 1864, with an army ofill in command at Petersburg, though he had been relieved, when General Butler, with his large army, suddenly occupied City Point. His troopleman of Petersburg had, but a short time before the arrival of General Butler, pointed out to me on one of the military maps of the day that me of the occupation of City Point by the forces commanded by General Butler. He told me I was the only cavalry officer on the ground, and that he wished me to take a party of cavalry to reconnoitre Butler's position, to remain in the vicinity of his outposts, and, if possible, in defend Petersburg, and that the place would be captured unless General Butler could be amused with this false opinion, until Beauregard couldment of North Carolina infantry, as if thrown forward to engage General Butler, and what guns we had were mounted on the fortifications on tha
The Annals of the Civil War Written by Leading Participants North and South (ed. Alexander Kelly McClure), Confederate negro enlistments. (search)
ments for it, detailed accounts of the revolt of Spartacus, of the Maroons, of Nat. Turner's outbreak, etc.; all showing the wish that was father to the thought. Butler speculated in this sort of business at Fortress Monroe and New Orleans, and Hunter tried it in South Carolina and Florida. Higginson's regiment at Beaufort was i boy in the trenches at Petersburg, and said to herself: If the cause demands him as food for powder, why not send out these for the Yankees to shoot at, also? Butler, at this very time, had ten thousand Virginia negroes at work cutting his Dutch Gap canal, about which the Richmond people gave themselves much needless excitemenral's works approached the point of completion (and of danger) the more it would be sure to flag. But the thought must have occurred to many at Richmond that, if Butler could employ these ten thousand negroes to cut a way into Richmond for him, what sort of paralysis was it that prevented the Confederate Government from equally e
The Annals of the Civil War Written by Leading Participants North and South (ed. Alexander Kelly McClure), Morgan's Indiana and Ohio Railroad. (search)
pect. By the time this affair, which did not occupy more than twenty minutes, was over, the fog had entirely disappeared, and Morgan's lines were within easy view of our forces on the hill. Business was now the order. The Fifth Indiana, Colonel Butler, was ordered to move down the road from which all had just been stampeded. Throwing out a strong line of skirmishers, dismounted, the regiment advanced briskly, forming a line as soon as the ground would permit. The Fourteenth Illinois followed close in the rear as a reserve. The Eleventh Kentucky made a detour to the right, and swung around to form on Butler's right. When this movement was well under way, I heard, as I rode in advance of the left of the Fifth, a rattling skirmish fire, and looking in the direction of the river, I saw O'Neil, at the head of his company, dashing over fences and ditches, and driving the enemy's guard from the ford pell-mell. The sight was inspiriting in the extreme. The entire line, which was b
The Annals of the Civil War Written by Leading Participants North and South (ed. Alexander Kelly McClure), The Baltimore riots. (search)
irresponsible parties. These arms were afterward recovered by General Butler, who pretended, with an immense flourish of trumpets, that theior's feats. The people of Baltimore were very much excited against Butler, for his conduct here was marked by the same bravado, the same overtoms were not such as ordinarily accompany poisoning by strychnia. Butler also ordered the arrest of a number of persons for seditious utter at Relay, Saturday, P. M. To Mayor Brown: Sir:--I represent General Butler at this camp during his absence at Annapolis. I have received a sham. The attack existed only in the fertile imaginations of General Butler's informants. Quiet had for some days been completely restored of it — was without leaders. On the night of the 13th of May, General Butler, with a strong force of volunteers, moved from the Relay House affairs was handed over to the military, and for several weeks General Butler reigned supreme. Subsequently, he was removed to new fields of