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Benjamnin F. Butler, Butler's Book: Autobiography and Personal Reminiscences of Major-General Benjamin Butler, Chapter 6: contraband of War, Big Bethel and Hatteras. (search)
e captured guns on the retirement of our main body. Also spikes to spike them if retaken. George Scott to have a shooting iron. Perhaps Duryea's men would be awkward with a new arm in a night oull trot over those thirteen feet high parapets. I sent quite early in the evening to have George Scott, who was to have a shooting iron and accompany Winthrop, and found him The contraband of Wf artillery, served by men who had not yet been mustered into service. Of course this move of Scott ended all hope or expectation that anything further would be allowed to be done at Fortress Monroe. To make it sure that nothing more would be done, as Scott thought, he soon afterward sent a man to relieve me from command that could not do anything but simply occupy the position of commander nd leave me to do the work, and restrain me from doing anything. General Wool's condition and Scott's knowledge of it will appear in the following correspondence:-- Fortress Monroe, August 8,