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Benjamnin F. Butler, Butler's Book: Autobiography and Personal Reminiscences of Major-General Benjamin Butler, Chapter 1: lineage and education. (search)
o intelligent education. I remember this paragraph was the opening one of the recitation:-- l>The lamb thy riot dooms to bleed to-day, Had he thy reason would he skip and play? Pleased to the last, he crops the flowery food, And licks the hand just raised to shed his blood. Parse lamb, said the master to the pupil who stood at the head of the class. He tried. Wrong; next. He tried. Next. He tried, and so down through the class, some eight in all. Then came my turn. I said: Lamb is a noun in the objective case and governed by dooms. How do you know that? said the master. Because I construe the paragraph Thy riot dooms the lamb to bleed to-day; had he thy reason, etc. Right, said the master; take the head of the class. I did so; and it was the proudest event of my life. A consultation was held by all those who had a right to be consulted, and it was decided that I should be sent to Exeter to be fitted for college, with the hope that a free scholarship m
Benjamnin F. Butler, Butler's Book: Autobiography and Personal Reminiscences of Major-General Benjamin Butler, Chapter 17: Fort Fisher. (search)
, only copies Casey. General Whiting and Colonel Lamb agree about the distance of the powder-boater where it could burn. The testimony of Colonel Lamb, who was in command of the fort, upon this seldom hit anyone . . . . Both Whiting and Lamb, who were in command of the fort, say that on tnd deliberately. See Appendix No. 124. Colonel Lamb says they fired on the two days six hundredused it in the construction of Fort Fisher. Colonel Lamb describes the fort as follows in the Centur6. The following extract from a letter of Colonel Lamb will show the condition of the fort as regaowering with fear. See Appendix No. 138. Colonel Lamb says he had fourteen hundred and fifty men seldom hit anyone, during the bombardment. Colonel Lamb says he expended six hundred shot and shell and he knew that fort was not disabled. Colonel Lamb, then commander of Fort Fisher, says there nd marines in making the land attack, which Colonel Lamb says he thought was to be the principal ass[2 more...]
Benjamnin F. Butler, Butler's Book: Autobiography and Personal Reminiscences of Major-General Benjamin Butler, Appendix. (search)
any, was the effect of the explosion? A. Powder-boat was observed and reported at midnight aground and set on fire. Explosion reported at 12.45 A. M. No effect at all on the fort. Explosion heard plainly in Wilmington. When I telegraphed Colonel Lamb to know what it was, he replied, Enemy's gunboat blown up. . . . . . . . . . . . . . Q. 11, 12, 13. What was the effect of the naval fire of the first day upon the fort? How many and what guns did it dismount or disable? Please stattfully, your obedient servant, David D. Porter, Rear-Admiral. Report before the Committee on the Conduct of the War, No. 5, p. 182. [No. 136. See page 814.] the defences of Fort Fisher. From the Century War books. by its commander, William Lamb, Colonel, C. S. A. . . . Lee sent me word that Fort Fisher must be held, or he could not subsist his army. . . . At the land face of Fort Fisher, five miles from the intrenched camp, the peninsula was about half a mile wide. This face c
Benjamnin F. Butler, Butler's Book: Autobiography and Personal Reminiscences of Major-General Benjamin Butler, Index. (search)
ded, 790-792; troops debark at, 792; prisoners taken at, 792-795; Major Reece gives information of, 795; attack abandoned, 796; why expedition was a failure, 798, 807; second expedition to, 807-808, 819; Porter quoted, 809, 812, 818, 819, 820; Colonel Lamb reports upon, 810,813,816; General Weitzel reports upon, 816-817; General Whiting reports upon, 820; Butler justified in refusing to assault, 821; Farragut advises Butler against expedition, 823; reference to, 831-832, 849; Butler's defeat at,20, 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, Washingt