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Benjamnin F. Butler, Butler's Book: Autobiography and Personal Reminiscences of Major-General Benjamin Butler, Chapter 18: why I was relieved from command. (search)
and afterwards those of the military district, including the vicinage around Norfolk, Fortress Monroe, and Yorktown, which were claimed to have been very improperly administered,--and into the action of my provost marshal of the department, Col. John Cassels. Against neither of these gentlemen could a single fact be found or a suspicion or ground for suspicion against the administration of their offices in any particular, for they had acted in the most honest and high-minded manner, and with af their whole duty as gentlemen of probity. Certainly the commander of a department was never removed before, without any notice, for want of proper administration, when a commission of high officers sent to examine that administration Col. John Cassels. reported only that he had shown in his administrative duties rare and great ability. And as I was in the field subsequent to that time there had been no special administration of duties of that department excepting to let it go on in the
Benjamnin F. Butler, Butler's Book: Autobiography and Personal Reminiscences of Major-General Benjamin Butler, Chapter 19: observations upon matters connected with the War. (search)
ken, up the river with the Army of the James to City Point. I found Lieut.-Col. John Cassels as provost marshal of the department. I did not reappoint him when I alt with before the provost court came flocking in with complaints against Colonel Cassels. He, of course, was an utter stranger to me, and if I put him in charge oicer of the Twenty-Seventh Massachusetts as provost marshal, and that sent Colonel Cassels back to his regiment, the Eleventh Pennsylvania Cavalry. I had brought he recruitment of negro troops. I investigated every complaint made regarding Cassels that was not utterly frivolous, and I came to the conclusion that these complae beyond all question the ebullitions of spleen or hatred. Among other things Cassels was charged with having taken a sum of money from one man, another sum from anion about 11 o'clock P. M., on the 8th of December, and sent an orderly to Colonel Cassels' tent with directions that he should report to me forthwith. He immediate
Benjamnin F. Butler, Butler's Book: Autobiography and Personal Reminiscences of Major-General Benjamin Butler, Index. (search)
tility of the Dominion, 966. Cape Ann, Butler's summer home at, 919. Cape Henry, transport fleet anchor off, 785-786. Cape Lookout, rendezvous of Porter and Butler, 789-790. Carey, Major J. N., interview with regarding contrabands, 257-258; letter from, 262-263. Carey shoots constable Heywood, 1026. Carney, James G., offers Governor Andrew bank funds, 171-173. Carruth, Lieutenant, suppresses anti-draft demonstration in Boston, 277. Carrolton, Phelps at, 896. Cassels, Col., John, acts investigated, 850; tribute to, 851; on Butler's staff, 897-899. Casey, Major, Thomas Lincoln, report of, 804. Catinet, episode of, 464-465; 468-469. Catholics, legislation against in New Hampshire, 39; in Massachusetts, 120, 122; Mt. Benedict incident, 112-113. century magazine, Gra<*>t in, 715. Chaffin's farm, 653. Chamberlain, The, at Fort Fisher, 787, 792. Chapman, Lieut. R. T., report of, 789 Chapin, Mr., colleague in Charleston Convention, 138-140; o