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Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 3. (ed. Frank Moore), chapter 8 (search)
by Lieut. Crosby: Memorandum. Benjamin F. Butler, Major-General United States Army, commaber. Fort Hatteras, Sept. 5, 1861. Major-General Butler:-- sir: I take the first opportunity ordered Lieut. Weigel (ordnance officer of Gen. Butler's staff) to accompany him. The latter soon g-Officer Atlantic Blockading Squadron. Benjamin F. Butler, Major-General U. S. A., commanding. S.nticello and Pawnee surf-boats only. Major-General Butler took passage in this ship; the transpor. H. Stringham, Flag-officer, and Major-General Benjamin F. Butler, Commanding United States forces,upon getting away as fast as possible, and General Butler telegraphed from the Harriet Lane a requeso this exceedingly refreshing proposition; General Butler intimated that he wasn't so jolly green bylf Major Commanding, availed themselves of General Butler's canal-boat-of-war as a means of transporexpedition against the forces at Hatteras, General Butler and staff took passage on the Minnesota, w[13 more...]
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 3. (ed. Frank Moore), Secession reports. (search)
Secession reports. Major Andrews' report. on board United States ship Minnesota, September 1, 1861. To the Adjutant-General of North Carolina: sir: I beg leave to report that after a bombardment of three hours and twenty minutes, on August 29, 1861, I surrendered to Commodore S. H. Stringham, Flag-officer, and Major-General Benjamin F. Butler, Commanding United States forces, Fort Hatteras, at Hatteras Inlet, North Carolina. In making this report, I desire briefly to relate the circumstances attending the capitulation. I arrived at Fort Hatteras on the evening of the 28th of August in company with Commodore Barron, Flag-officer C. S. navy, in charge of the defences of Virginia and North Carolina, and found that during the day the enemy had attacked the forces under the command of Colonel William F. Martin, as well as Forts Clark and Hatteras, under my command, and after a day of most severe and unceasing fighting, the colonel had succeeded in concentrating all the fo
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 3. (ed. Frank Moore), chapter 18 (search)
olicy it contemplates. We purpose simply to call the attention of our readers to the fact that that policy is but the formal announcement of what was long foreseen and predicted as a possible incident of the war in States whose citizens preferred to trust for the security and protection of their property to the Government of Mr. Davis, rather than to the Government of the Union. To this effect Mr. Secretary Cameron held the following language, in a letter of instructions addressed to Major-General Butler, under date of August 8th: It is the desire of the President that all existing rights, in all the States, be fully respected and maintained. The war now prosecuted on the part of the Federal Government is a war for the Union, and for the preservation of all constitutional rights of States and the citizens of the States in the Union. Hence no question can arise as to fugitives from service within the States and Territories in which the authority of the Union is fully acknowledge
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 3. (ed. Frank Moore), chapter 30 (search)
d our military arm off the coast of North Carolina, where a citizen of New York, the venerable and gallant Commodore Stringham, (loud applause,) united his well-earned laurels with those that garlanded the younger brow of a Massachusetts General, Butler. (Applause, and three cheers for Butler.) When would it be possible for me to forget that among the heroes on that day there were none more deserving of their country's honor, and of proud mention on the brightest page of our history, than the cButler.) When would it be possible for me to forget that among the heroes on that day there were none more deserving of their country's honor, and of proud mention on the brightest page of our history, than the colonel and men of the Twentieth New York regiment of Volunteers under the command of an adopted citizen from the German fatherland--Colonel Max Weber? (Applause, and three cheers for Colonel Weber.) I cannot describe an emotion which all of you must have felt, and in sympathy with which all true hearts must have beat as they read the record of the exploit of that gallant German regiment of New York, who, upon the edge of the darkness of the night, amid a rolling surf upon that, to them, untried
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 3. (ed. Frank Moore), Doc. 36. battle of Port Royal, S. C. Fought November 7, 1861. (search)
es declared by the proclamation of the President to be in a state of insurrection, you will govern yourself, so far as persons held to service under the laws of such States are concerned, by the principles of the letters addressed by me to Major-General Butler, on the 30th of May and the 8th of August, copies of which are herewith furnished to you. As special directions, adapted to special circumstances, cannot be given, much must be referred to your own discretion, as Commanding General of the y naval. The army had nothing to do with it. They lay off in the transports, a long distance, until after we had taken the place, and the Gridiron, that emblem that every true American should be proud of, was flying over it. Consequently, no General Butler about this, like Hatteras. The men at my gun fought like Trojans, and the shot and shell flew about them like hail. We expected to be ordered home to repair our engine, but the Commodore says he wants us to do a little more fighting first.
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 3. (ed. Frank Moore), chapter 42 (search)
our children, we have sworn that though all things else should perish, this country and this Union shall stand. Resolved, That in the language of our own General Butler, in this crisis, there must be no compromise, no yielding; nothing but the strong arm, until the glorious flag of the Union floats over every inch of territoresolved, In the words of Andrew Jackson: The Federal Union must and shall be preserved. The following communications were read at the meeting. Letter from Gen. Butler. Lowell, September 9, 1861. Dear Sir: I am most unexpectedly called away by public duties, so that I cannot participate, as I had intended, in the meeti the enforcement of the laws. That I go for a vigorous prosecution of the war is best shown from the fact that I am gone. Believe me, most truly yours, Benj. F. Butler. To Hon. H. F. French and others, Committee. Letter from Hon. Robert C. Winthrop. Beverly, September 9, 1861. Gentlemen: Your communication of th
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 3. (ed. Frank Moore), chapter 49 (search)
three miles east of Capt. Templeton, with instructions to report to me any movement of the enemy on the left flank, came on and reported a column of two thousand troops marching in this direction, with the evident intention of cutting off Capt. Templeton and Major Christopher. I immediately sent orders for the entire force to fall back on the main force, which they did in good order, bringing off their wounded — having two men killed, one taken prisoner, and three wounded. Privates Kent and Butler killed, of Company F, Capt. White; F. Spooner of the same company was taken prisoner. The wounded are Corporal Clark and private Richards--both seriously, Clark having been hit by four balls. Both will recover, but Richards has had his leg amputated. Private Hovey is slightly wounded; all of Co. D of my regiment. At this time you arrived on the ground and took command. Let me say that officers and men all did their duty, and I must be allowed to commend to your notice Sergeant Thompso
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 3. (ed. Frank Moore), chapter 62 (search)
the accursed place, we took up our line of march, meeting Gen. Lane about eight miles from Osceola, bringing up reinforcements. Here we camped. The pickets being fired on here during the night, we marched early the next morning, and arrived at Butler about eight o'clock in the evening. Here we learned that the notorious Capt. Lock (the same that lay in the Butler jail last summer for murder, and was released on the condition that he would kill Montgomery and Jennison) was five miles from ButButler, sick. Capt. Hunt was detailed to go and arrest him, taking a guide. The company was dismounted when within a half mile of the house, the horses concealed in the brush: we then moved on quietly to the house, and after surrounding it, Lock was called for. The lady came out and remonstrated, declaring there was no man within. Col. Ritchie then ordered the house to be set on fire. After the house had been burning about five minutes, the lady — I have lied, she was not a lady, but a mere t
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 3. (ed. Frank Moore), chapter 71 (search)
or the gunners there, they would load the piece rapidly, fire, run under cover, remain there a few minutes, and then repeat the performance. The thirty-five minutes firing was a magnificent artillery duty. Old soldiers, who have been in many a fight, say they never have seen any thing equal to it. While this was going on, the Fourteenth Indiana, under the gallant Kimball, the dashing Harrow, and the enthusiastic Blynn, and the Twenty-fourth Ohio, under the veteran Ammon, and Gilbert and Butler, had been scouring the mountain on our left, to prevent a flank movement. They were much exposed to shot and shell, but were successful in dodging them. The other regiments, except the Fifteenth Indiana and the Twenty-fifth Ohio, held as a reserve, were protecting our right, and the batteries. After the enemy had been driven from their lower intrenchments, and their battery reduced to one gun, our artillerists slackened their fire, and took it more easily. The infantry brightened up, e
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 3. (ed. Frank Moore), chapter 114 (search)
e in that line of practice. What, then, is the prospect of success? In the first place, events have travelled very fast and very far. At the North, the whole history of its tyrannical and imbecile civil administration, from Lincoln's inaugural to the last ukase of Mr. Seward, putting in force, of his own mere will, that most obnoxious of all European tyrannies, the passport system — the whole history of its war administration, from the haughty threats of Scott to the insolent vaporings of Butler — from the sullen lowering of its flag at Sumter, to its ignominious trailing in the dust at Manassas — all prove the truth of our denunciation; while at the South, the steady and orderly development of our new political life, the earnest and ready sacrifices of all classes of our people, the continuous and triumphant success of our arms, the temperate wisdom of our Government — all prove the truth of our assertions. Facts which the Herald cannot suppress, nor the Tribune distort, are teac
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