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Benjamnin F. Butler, Butler's Book: Autobiography and Personal Reminiscences of Major-General Benjamin Butler, Chapter 2: early political action and military training. (search)
heme upset the ripe judgment and twisted the great legal learning of the Hon. Benjamin R. Curtis, afterwards Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United Staole Court, headed by Chief Justice Taney,--an opinion that will live and render Curtis famous long after those who gave the majority opinion have dropped into obliviouch as I admire that opinion, still, I think it was the second ablest effort of Curtis, the first, in my judgment, being Mr. Curtis' opening argument in defence of AnMr. Curtis' opening argument in defence of Andrew Johnson upon the trial of his impeachment. In that case, when Curtis had finished, although much else was said by many other counsel in behalf of his client, noCurtis had finished, although much else was said by many other counsel in behalf of his client, nothing more was said. Yet that great and good man was so far thrown off his balance by the horrors of the coalition, that he wrote and published an elaborate pamphlnst the United States, as we thereby elected two United States Senators; but Judge Curtis never afterwards instructed the grand jury in the Circuit Court when he sat
Benjamnin F. Butler, Butler's Book: Autobiography and Personal Reminiscences of Major-General Benjamin Butler, Chapter 11: military operations. (search)
2, 10.40 A. M. Hon. E. M. Stanton, Secretary of War: I cannot at present give Commodore Farragut any aid against Vicksburg. I am sending reinforcements to General Curtis in Arkansas, and to General Buell in Tennessee and Kentucky. H. W. Halleck, Major-General. War Records, Vol. XV., p. 519. Now let us look a moment at thFirst, that he did not send any troops there, but made as his excuse for not aiding Farragut the statement that he had sent his troops to reinforce Buell and also Curtis. Those reinforcements so sent away, on then comparatively unimportant errands, would have been invaluable if sent to Vicksburg, which was nearer him than the poiis recall, as his force since the reinforcement by Van Dorn and Breckinridge of the enemy, is too small for operations alone, and a junction of Generals Grant and Curtis must give ample force for the reduction of the place. The disposal of the guerrilla bands is easy of accomplishment, but it requires many men to hold the various
Benjamnin F. Butler, Butler's Book: Autobiography and Personal Reminiscences of Major-General Benjamin Butler, Chapter 18: why I was relieved from command. (search)
m. I issued an order, therefore, the first paragraph of which dismissed this mutinous officer from service for the act of which he had been guilty, and the next paragraph sentenced him to work at hard labor. That man did not go home to electioneer for anybody, that I ever heard of. I do not remember his name; I had no personal knowledge of him; he was, to me, the x, y, or z of an algebraic equation, an unknown quantity to be wrought out for the good of the service. Again, I withdrew General Curtis' command from the trenches before Petersburg, because it was very much reduced by sickness, and needed rest and setting up. He issued an order that his officers should always be present at roll-call, and also that they should wear their coats when they came to headquarters. Thereupon five of his officers sent in their resignations, written upon the same day, and upon similar pieces of paper, and nearly all in the same hand-writing, saying that they resigned because they were incompeten
Benjamnin F. Butler, Butler's Book: Autobiography and Personal Reminiscences of Major-General Benjamin Butler, Chapter 20: Congressman and Governor. (search)
gorgeous apparel. I came as near running away then as I ever did on any occasion in my life. But summoning up such courage as I could, I stuck to my post and addressed the Senate in a speech of two hours length, of which forty thousand copies were ordered by the House the next day for circulation throughout the country. The board of managers occupied the floor of the Senate chamber at the left of the chief justice. On the right sat Attorney-General Stanbury, Mr. Evarts of New York, Judge B. R. Curtis, of Massachusetts, Judge Nelson, of Tennessee, and other gentlemen, counsel for Andrew Johnson, President of the United States. I had brought it to the attention of the board of managers that we should have Mr. Johnson brought in and placed at the bar of the Senate to be tried according to the forms of the English law,--or as Judge Chase had been tried when Aaron Burr presided over the Senate,--and required by the presiding officer to stand until the Senate offered him a chair. But
Benjamnin F. Butler, Butler's Book: Autobiography and Personal Reminiscences of Major-General Benjamin Butler, Appendix. (search)
f the 25th, Sunday, Captain Glisson, commanding the covering divisions of the fleet, reported the batteries silenced and his vessels in position to cover our landing. The transport fleet, following my flag-ship, stood in within eight hundred yards of the beach, and at once commenced debarking. The landing was successfully effected. Finding that the reconnoitring party just landed could hold the shore, I determined to land a force with which an assault might be attempted. Brevet Brigadier-General Curtis, who deserves well for his gallantry and conduct, immediately pushed up his brigade within a few hundred yards of Fort Fisher, capturing the Half-Moon battery and its men, who were taken off by the boats of the navy. This skirmish line advanced to within seventy-five yards of the fort, protected by the glacis which had been thrown up in such form as to give cover, the garrison being completely kept in their bomb-proofs by the fire of the navy, which was very rapid and continu
Benjamnin F. Butler, Butler's Book: Autobiography and Personal Reminiscences of Major-General Benjamin Butler, Index. (search)
t of Gulf, 577. Conant, Captain, 480. Concord, N. H., President Pierce's home, 1020. Craig, Captain, Grant in office of, 868. Crimea, medal presented soldiers of, 742; Butler reads history of war, 868. Crispin, Captain, Commandant of U. S. Arsenal, 761. Crosby, Lieutenant, at Fort Hatteras, 284. Currituck, Union Gunboat, 617. Curtis, General, given reinforcements by Halleck, 457-459; proposed junction with Grant, 463; command drawn from Pittsburg trenches, 841. Curtis, Hon. B. R., 97; Counsel for President Johnson, 929-930. Cushing, Caleb, offers Butler a West Point appointment, 57; presides at Charleston Convention, 134; presides at Baltimore Convention, 144; in Mexican War, 303; refused army appointment by Andrew, 308; opinion regarding Trent affair, 318. Cushing, Lieut. J. W., on Butler's staff, 896. cook, Jay, on the national debt, 935; on bank taxes, 944. Corwine, meddles in Farragut prize case, 1010. Constitution, The Ship, at Annapolis, 19