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| Adam Badeau, Military history of Ulysses S. Grant from April 1861 to April 1865. Volume 3 | 309 | 19 | Browse | Search |
| Adam Badeau, Military history of Ulysses S. Grant from April 1861 to April 1865. Volume 2 | 309 | 19 | Browse | Search |
| General Horace Porter, Campaigning with Grant | 170 | 20 | Browse | Search |
| J. B. Jones, A Rebel War Clerk's Diary | 117 | 33 | Browse | Search |
| Comte de Paris, History of the Civil War in America. Vol. 2. (ed. Henry Coppee , LL.D.) | 65 | 11 | Browse | Search |
| Edward Porter Alexander, Military memoirs of a Confederate: a critical narrative | 62 | 2 | Browse | Search |
| Comte de Paris, History of the Civil War in America. Vol. 1. (ed. Henry Coppee , LL.D.) | 36 | 2 | Browse | Search |
| William Tecumseh Sherman, Memoirs of General William T. Sherman . | 34 | 12 | Browse | Search |
| Fitzhugh Lee, General Lee | 29 | 3 | Browse | Search |
| Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 2. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones) | 29 | 3 | Browse | Search |
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Browsing named entities in The Daily Dispatch: December 28, 1865., [Electronic resource]. You can also browse the collection for Butler or search for Butler in all documents.
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General Butler, it is said, is engaged in drawing up a reply to General Grant's report, which he expects will annihilate the Lieutenant-General.
It will perhaps scare him as much as his powder boat did the enemy.--St.
Louts Republican.
A Scrap for the Historian.
--While General Butler is writing his reply to General Grant, let him not forget to insert a conversation between himself and an able officer which is not unknown in army circles.
An expedition was planned against Richmond.
Butler observed to the proposed leader, "You must leave nothing of Richmond." "Do you mean, seriously, destroy the city? " "Yes, and have the ground plowed up." The officer addressed replied, "I am not the man for the expedition." "Yes, Butler observed to the proposed leader, "You must leave nothing of Richmond." "Do you mean, seriously, destroy the city? " "Yes, and have the ground plowed up." The officer addressed replied, "I am not the man for the expedition." "Yes, you are: you are just the man." "There must be, according to numbers, at least one thousand children, one thousand aged and decrepit persons, and one thousand women big with child.
These helpless persons must all perish if I fire the city, and, setting aside all prompting of humanity, I do not care to go down to posterity with that load of infamy upon me." "Better go down that way than not go at all."