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Benjamnin F. Butler, Butler's Book: Autobiography and Personal Reminiscences of Major-General Benjamin Butler, Chapter 7: recruiting in New England. (search)
d to recommend the officers to him for his appointment, subject, however, to the withdrawal of anyone whom he did not choose to appoint for reasons affecting his character and standing. Whom do you want for colonel? said he. I think Col. Jonas H. French will make as good an officer as anyone I know. Why, said the governor, French helped break up a John Brown meeting. Yes, said I, that is why I want him. He showed a disposition to fight somebody if necessary, and I guess he can get ma'd abolitionist, and that was true, although it was not a pleasant thing to say. But certainly his ability and his position in the country would seem to entitle him to the place if he would take it, and I think he will. But I will not appoint French, and I will not appoint any other officer of his way of thinking in a Massachusetts regiment. Very well, Governor, I shall appoint him, on the authority given me by the President, and he will recruit a regiment. He won't if I can help it.
Benjamnin F. Butler, Butler's Book: Autobiography and Personal Reminiscences of Major-General Benjamin Butler, Chapter 9: taking command of a Southern City. (search)
In the interval between the evacuation by Lovell and Farragut's arrival, a panic had seized the city, exhibiting itself in the destruction of property. Cotton, sugar, tar, rosin, timber, and coal were set on lire, and all the ships and vessels that could not be taken away with a few exceptions were burned. There was even some talk among the citizens of burning the city. Some of the Confederate leaders favored it on the ground that there was a large foreign interest in the city, especially French, and that if the city were destroyed it would bring the war so home to them that France would try to cause it to be ended by intervention. This destruction of property was also done on the outside of the city upon the ground that the supplies, especially cotton, would be destroyed by us upon capture. To allay this fear I issued General Order No. 22:-- headquarters Department of the Gulf, New Orleans, May 4, 1862. General Order No. 22. The commanding general of the department hav
Benjamnin F. Butler, Butler's Book: Autobiography and Personal Reminiscences of Major-General Benjamin Butler, Chapter 18: why I was relieved from command. (search)
ets can get books to read in their quarters. I devoted more time to these than to books relating to the course of studies. Much of the time, I am sorry to say, was devoted to novels, but not those of a trashy sort. I read all of Bulwer's then published, Cooper's, Marryat's, Scott's, Washington Irving's works, Lever's, and many others that I do not now remember. Mathematics was very easy to me, so that when January came, I passed the examination, taking a good standing in that branch. In French, the only other study at that time, in the first year's course, my standing was very low; in fact, if the class had been turned the other end foremost, I should have been near the head. I never succeeded in getting squarely at either end of my class, in any one study, during the four years. I came near it in French, artillery, infantry, and cavalry tactics, and conduct. Early in the session of the Congress which met in December, 1839, a bill was discussed abolishing the Military Academy.
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)
erve with me until his own health failed. He died in the city of New York several years after the war. He was one of the truest friends I ever had. Lieut.-Col. Jonas H. French was also upon my staff for a short time in New Orleans after he had been deprived of his command of the Thirty-First Massachusetts Volunteers by Governor Andrew. When General Shepley was designated by the President as Governor of Louisiana, Lieut.-Col. French was promoted from acting provost marshal on my staff to the post of provost marshal general of the State of Louisiana, and remained in that office when I left New Orleans. To his energy and ability the quiet and good orderof the populace of New Orleans may be largely ascribed. Col. S. H. Stafford, of a New York Regiment, who had been acting as assistant provost marshal, took Colonel French's place on my staff when he was promoted, and showed himself to be a brave, determined, and thorough executive officer who fully executed the duty devolved up
Benjamnin F. Butler, Butler's Book: Autobiography and Personal Reminiscences of Major-General Benjamin Butler, Index. (search)
sachusetts Regiment sails for Fortress Monroe, 173-174. Fourth Wisconsin Regiment, 371-460. France, secret sessions of National Assembly, 119; the revolution, 122-123; terms of proposed treaty with Confederacy, 464-465; vessel at New Orleans, 468-469; trouble with consul of, 473-476; understanding with Secretary Seward, 489-491; Butler's name in, 552; reference to in speech, 566. Franklin writes to Butler, 873-874. Fremont, Gen. John C., abolitionist candidate for dictator, 576. French, Lieut.-Col. Jonas H., refused appointment by Governor Andrews, 307-308; on Butler's staff in New Orleans, 896. Fuller, Captain, as member of Lafourche confiscation commission, 521. Fuller, Lieutenant-Colonel, message to, 653. Fusion party, 983-984. G Galveston, Butler's advice, regarding, 531-532. Gardner, Henry J., elected know-nothing Governor, 120; conflict with over disbandment of Militia Company, 124,127. Garfield, General, Counsel for Milligan, 1008. garrison,