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Benjamnin F. Butler, Butler's Book: Autobiography and Personal Reminiscences of Major-General Benjamin Butler, Chapter 16: capture of fortifications around Richmond, Newmarket Heights, Dutch Gap Canal, elections in New York and gold conspiracy. (search)
oved by the Newmarket road up to the point of intersection, where it may be necessary to turn the works by a flank movement to the left in the direction marked on the map Cox, but that, like the other method of attack, must be left largely to the discretion of General Birney. As soon as possible after the advance has been made from Deep Bottom, whether the attack is made by the third (3d) division of the Eighteenth Corps, or a division of the Tenth Corps, the third (3d) division under General Paine will have position upon the left of General Birney's column of march, so that when the junction is formed with General Ord that division may report to him, relieved from its temporary assignment to duty with the Tenth Corps. The commanding general of the army will endeavor to keep himself in communication with the corps commanders so as to afford any direction, advice, or assistance that may be in his power, and by being kept advised of the movements of the one and the other of the co
Benjamnin F. Butler, Butler's Book: Autobiography and Personal Reminiscences of Major-General Benjamin Butler, Chapter 17: Fort Fisher. (search)
- Headquarters Department of Virginia and North Carolina, Army of the James, in the field, Dec. 6, 1864. Maj.-Gen. G. Weitzel Commanding: General:--The major-general commanding has entrusted you with the command of the expedition about to embark for the North Carolina coast. It will consist of about sixty-five hundred infantry, two batteries of artillery, and fifty cavalry. The effective men of General Ames' division of the Twenty-Fourth Corps will furnish the infantry force. General Paine is under your orders, and General Ames will be ordered to report to you in person immediately. You will confer with these officers and arrange details; instruct them to select their best men, making your force about sixty-five hundred men. The chief of artillery in conference with you will designate the artillery to be taken. The horses of the batteries, except one horse for each officer and chief of piece, will be left. Take one set of wheel harness. Fifty men of the Massachusetts
Benjamnin F. Butler, Butler's Book: Autobiography and Personal Reminiscences of Major-General Benjamin Butler, Chapter 21: practice of the law. (search)
instated. Utterly disgusted with being obliged to try a case involving more than a million in money where such unheard — of proceedings could take place, and desiring nothing but the best adjudication of the case, I appealed to the Attorney-General, the Secretary of the Navy, and the Secretary of the Treasury, as he had got into it, for an agreement that the case should be referred by the rule of the court to three arbitrators,--two of them men of the highest standing as lawyers, the Hon. Henry W. Paine, of Massachusetts, and the Hon. Thos. J. Durant, of Louisiana, and the third, the Hon. Gustavus V. Fox, late assistant Secretary of the Navy,--who would have a knowledge of the course involved in the proceedings, with the right to appeal from the judgment of the admiralty court to the Supreme Court. When I presented this agreement to the Attorney-General, he said: Who ever heard of a question of prize being submitted to arbitration? Have you got any precedent for it? No, Mr.
Benjamnin F. Butler, Butler's Book: Autobiography and Personal Reminiscences of Major-General Benjamin Butler, Appendix. (search)
er, selected by the War Department, to whom General Grant objected? Answer.--General Gillmore. [no. 126. see page 798.] headquarters Department of Virginia and North Carolina, Army of the James, in the field, Jan. 3, 1865. Lieut.-Gen. U. S. Grant, Commanding armies of the United States: General:--On the 7th of December last, in obedience to your orders, I moved a force of about sixty-five hundred efficient men, consisting of General Ames' division of the Twenty-Fourth Corps, and General Paine's division of the Twenty-Fifth Corps, under command of Major-General Weitzel, to an encampment near Bermuda. On the 8th the troops embarked for Fortress Monroe. On the 9th, Friday, I reported to Rear-Admiral Porter that the army portion of the conjoint expedition directed against Wilmington was ready to proceed. We waited there Saturday the 10th, Sunday the 11th, and Monday the 12th. On the 12th, Rear-Admiral Porter informed me that the naval fleet would sail on the 13th, but
Benjamnin F. Butler, Butler's Book: Autobiography and Personal Reminiscences of Major-General Benjamin Butler, Index. (search)
ler accounted for, 843, 848. Ould, Robert, Confederate agent for exchange of prisoners, 542, 584, 586; conference with and report, 588, 592; letter demonstrating right to enlist negroes, 599, 605; references, 606-607, argument of, 752. P Paine, Hon. Henry W., arbitrator in the Farragut prize case, 1011. Paine, General, reference to, 726; in Roanoke expedition, 781. Palmer, Brigadier-General, repulses attack of Confederates at Beaufort, N. C., 618. Palmerston, Lord, denounces wPaine, General, reference to, 726; in Roanoke expedition, 781. Palmer, Brigadier-General, repulses attack of Confederates at Beaufort, N. C., 618. Palmerston, Lord, denounces woman order, 420. Palfrey, Captain, reports on Fort Jackson and St. Philip, 369. Parallel, schooner, cargo of gunpowder explodes in Golden Gate, 776. Paris, Tenn., reference to, 874. Parker, Commodore, succeeds Smith in command on James River, 750; the opening of Dutch Gap Canal, 751; runs from Confederate gunboats, 751; court-martialed, 752. Parson, Lieutenant, in Roanoke Expedition, 781. Parton, Jas., 985. Paterson, Rev. Robert B., president Waterville College, 69. Patter