hide Matching Documents

The documents where this entity occurs most often are shown below. Click on a document to open it.

Document Max. Freq Min. Freq
Benjamnin F. Butler, Butler's Book: Autobiography and Personal Reminiscences of Major-General Benjamin Butler 7 3 Browse Search
Mrs. John A. Logan, Reminiscences of a Soldier's Wife: An Autobiography 2 0 Browse Search
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) 2 2 Browse Search
View all matching documents...

Browsing named entities in Benjamnin F. Butler, Butler's Book: Autobiography and Personal Reminiscences of Major-General Benjamin Butler. You can also browse the collection for L'Enfant or search for L'Enfant in all documents.

Your search returned 5 results in 2 document sections:

aying out the city, and locating the public buildings, and more than possibly in advising the choice of the site, was Major L'Enfant, a very able French engineer. To the pamphlet of Randolph, a reply was made which was supposed to have been written by L'Enfant. With that reply, we have nothing to do here, except in regard to the naval and military situation of the capital. Major L'Enfant upon these questions, replied in substance, that the person who wrote the pamphlet evidently was not a mMajor L'Enfant upon these questions, replied in substance, that the person who wrote the pamphlet evidently was not a military man, and did not understand the views which led to the location of the capital. In the first place, the advantage of little depth of water of the Potomac River, its ease or difficulty of access, had nothing to do with the location of the cap be prevented from ascending the river, was one of the protections of Washington. Great numbers of troops, concluded Major L'Enfant, could readily be brought down the Susquehanna River, and landed anywhere upon its banks or in the bays, and so march
Know-Nothing party, 120, 125. Kruttschmidt, acting Prussian consul at New Orleans, 432-435. Ku-Klux, outrages of, 961; the bill passed in regard to, 962. L Lacy, I. Horace, letter to Mahone from, 881, 887. Lafayette, upon military commission, 843. Lamb, Colonel, report of, 804; upon powder-boat, 806; upon Fort Fisher attack, 810, 818, 819; superintends construction of fort, 812; describes fort, 813; letter quoted, 814, 816. Larue, John H., and wife arrested, 511, 513. L'Enfant, Major, Washington Assistant Engineer, anecdote of, 186-187. Law, Butler first attracted to, 63; study of, 71, 74; examination for bar, 74, 77; Butler's son studies, 81. law, Geo., candidate for dictator, 279, 576. Lawrence, Hon., Wm., on Johnson impeachment case, 928. Lawrence, Captain, repels Confederates at Drury's Bluff, 663. Lee, Admiral S. P., in command on James River, 588; receives plan of operations from Butler, 638; reply, 638; ascends James River, 640; sends captur