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Benjamnin F. Butler, Butler's Book: Autobiography and Personal Reminiscences of Major-General Benjamin Butler, Chapter 17: Fort Fisher. (search)
there is hay enough in the country. It can only arise from inexcusable remissness somewhere, which needs but to be brought to your attention to be remedied. Benj. F. Butler, Major-General Commanding. During General Grant's absence I was informed that the navy had adopted my plan, and the vessel to contain the powder was being got ready by the navy, which was to furnish one hundred and fifty tons of powder at Fortress Monroe. Later I received in answer to a telegram which I had sent General Dyer, chief of ordnance, a message that the army would also furnish one hundred and fifty tons of powder at Fortress Monroe. See Appendix No. 97. General Grant had then returned. From information received it was supposed that the garrison at Wilmington and all the forces about Wilmington, except a small garrison at Fort Fisher, had been detached to meet General Sherman. Thereupon, after a consultation, General Grant desired me to do two things. One was to send an expedition up the Roan
Benjamnin F. Butler, Butler's Book: Autobiography and Personal Reminiscences of Major-General Benjamin Butler, Appendix. (search)
the inadvertence of the adjutant-general. You have leave to remain till Monday if you desire to do so. (Signed) E. M. Stanton, Secretary of War. [no. 97. see page 779.] Washington, Dec. 1, 1864. Major-General Butler: Telegram received. One hundred tons mining powder was sent from New York and Boston between the 24th and last of November to Captain Edson at Fortress Monroe, who is ordered to hold the same subject to your order; fifty tons will leave New York in a day or two. A. B. Dyer, Chief of Ordnance. [no. 98. see page 780.] headquarters Army of the James, in the field, Nov. 30, 1864. Admiral Porter: Brigadier-General Wild will hand you this note, and brings also orders to General Palmer about the matter of which we were speaking. Please give him an order, to be transmitted through him to the commander of your naval forces in the sound, to co-operate in the fullest extent with General Palmer, and to move with all promptness and celerity. General Wild will
Benjamnin F. Butler, Butler's Book: Autobiography and Personal Reminiscences of Major-General Benjamin Butler, Index. (search)
e of, 663, 666; in reference to, 833, 855; anecdote of, 891-892. Dubow, Colonel, reference to, 723. Dumas, Matthew, on the battle of Marengo, 865. Duncan, Gen. J. H., report on Porter's bombardment, 360, 361, 369; reference to, 371. Dupont, Captain (Admiral), 181,183. Duryea, Col. A., at Big Bethel, 267-272. Durant, Hon. Thomas J., on starving condition of New Orleans, 387; arbitrator in Farragut prize case, 1011. Dutch Gap Canal, 744, 751, 752; reference to, 847. Dyer, General, telegram to Butler from, 779. E Early, General, attacks Washington, 628; reported capture of, 651; reference to, 1009. Eastern Bay State Regiment, 310. Eastport, Miss., reference to, 874. Edmunds, Senator, reference to, 955. Edson, Rev. Dr., father of Lowell schools, 52, 55; married by, 79. Edson, Captain, telegram to, 780. Eighteenth Army Corps, embark at Yorktown, 639-640; ordered to join Grant, 671; return to Bermuda Hundred, 685; fail to reach Deep Bottom, 694;