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Benjamnin F. Butler, Butler's Book: Autobiography and Personal Reminiscences of Major-General Benjamin Butler, Chapter 15: operations of the Army of the James around Richmond and Petersburg. (search)
burg, because up to the time of his attack there had been no substantial change in them for months. My proposition to him was, as to Gillmore, to go in by an attack and rush, and I represented to him strongly that Gillmore on his expedition had only rushed at his dinner. Now I think Smith was an efficient soldier in many respects,--although it would seem that I have every cause to dislike the man in every relation of life. But he had one inevitable regular army failing — the vice Assistant Secretary Dana wrote to the War Department See Appendix No. 65. Wright and Warren were accused of: interminable reconnoissances --waiting and waiting, not going at a thing when he was told, but looking all around to see if he could not do something else than what he was told to do, or do it in a different way from what he was told. Fearing lest he might believe, as an excuse for reconnoitring, that Lee's troops had gone into Petersburg or could get there before him, I telegraphed him that
Benjamnin F. Butler, Butler's Book: Autobiography and Personal Reminiscences of Major-General Benjamin Butler, Chapter 18: why I was relieved from command. (search)
have the corps commanders attack simultaneously, each corps commander is ordered to attack as soon as he can get ready. The result of such an uncombined and miscellaneous attack was that the Confederates could mass large bodies of their troops at each point upon which an attack was made, and, after repulsing it, could put them in that portion of the intrenchments next attacked, when some corps commander got ready to make one, after their interminable reconnoissances, from which Assistant Secretary of War Dana said Meade had suffered so much. The end of it all was that we lost Petersburg and some seventeen thousand killed, wounded and captured; and then, laying down the musket, we took up the spade in a nine months endeavor to recapture that city, which was at last effected through the starvation of Lee's army. While the command of the Armies of the James and Potomac devolved upon me as the senior major-general in Grant's absence, the only action that I took while so commanding wa
Benjamnin F. Butler, Butler's Book: Autobiography and Personal Reminiscences of Major-General Benjamin Butler, Chapter 20: Congressman and Governor. (search)
s elected to Congress takes part in financial questions greenbacks are money, and hence good enough for bondholders congressional election: running against R. H. Dana, Jr. sample stump speeches E. Rockwood Hoar and Harvard College trying to Impeach President Johnson presenting the case did Johnson know of Booth's plans: a phdrawing the Republican votes from myself than to have so pestilent a greenbacker represent that solid old Republican district in Congress. Therefore, Mr. Richard H. Dana, Jr., a gentleman of very respectable talents indeed and of considerable learning, and one who prided himself on his ancestry, was procured to run against me.will come down and ride with me I assure you we won't take anybody's dust. I instance this as some of the amenities of the stump speaking of the campaign. Mr. Dana was beaten out of sight. When the next elections came I supposed the contest would be given up. At least, I was so assured by the Republican State Committee, an
Benjamnin F. Butler, Butler's Book: Autobiography and Personal Reminiscences of Major-General Benjamin Butler, Appendix. (search)
d witnessed his departure: General Grant has gone away drunk; General Butler has seen it and will never fail to use the weapon which has been put into his hands. Two or three days after that I applied for a leave of absence for the benefit of my health, and General Grant sent word to me not to go, if it were possible to stay, and I replied, in a private note, warranted by our former relations, a copy of which note I will send you in a few days. The next day the Assistant Secretary of War (Mr. Dana) came to tell me that he had been sent by General Grant to say what it becomes necessary to repeat in view of subsequent events, to wit: That he, General G., had written a letter the day before to ask that General Butler might be relieved from that department July 2, and I placed in command of it, giving as a reason that he could not trust General Butler with the command of troops in the movements about to be made, and saying also that next to General Sherman he had more confidence in my ab
Benjamnin F. Butler, Butler's Book: Autobiography and Personal Reminiscences of Major-General Benjamin Butler, Index. (search)
35; on bank taxes, 944. Corwine, meddles in Farragut prize case, 1010. Constitution, The Ship, at Annapolis, 192-193. Courier, The Boston, 895. Courier, The Lowell, attacked by, 107-108. Covode, Hon., John, anecdote of, 580. D Dana, Hon. Charles A., Assistant Secretary of War, 687, 831; offers to pay Badeau's claim against Mr. Grant, 860. Dana, Richard H., Jr., Butler's opponent in congressional campaign, 921; speech in Lynn, 921-922; Butler's reply, 922; defeated, 922. Dana, Richard H., Jr., Butler's opponent in congressional campaign, 921; speech in Lynn, 921-922; Butler's reply, 922; defeated, 922. Danville Railroad, cut, 651. Davenport, Lieut. John I., reports Smith's movements, 687,690; reports of, 701; on Butler's staff, 900. Davis, Jefferson, vote for, in Charleston Convention explained, 138, 142; interview with regarding secession, 159; might have captured Washington, 219-221; instigates burning of cotton, at New Orleans, 385-386; letter from Moore on Butler's force, 477; letter to General Smith regarding Vicksburg, 485; proclaims Butler an outlaw and a felon, 542, 546; fore