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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)
er 19: observations upon matters connected with the War. Tribute to individual staff officers closing days of the Rebellion an interview with Lincoln disposal of colored troops discussed Butler proposes to take them to the Isthmus of Darien and dig a canal across Lincoln's death stops the enterprise Conferences with President Johnson belief that traitors should have been punished, and their property confiscated and given to Northern soldiers Johnston's terms of surrender to Sherdeed, many of the troops have spent a large portion of their time in digging in forts and intrenchments, and especially the negroes, for they were always put into the work when possible. The United States wants a ship canal across the Isthmus of Darien at some proper and convenient point. Now, I know of a concession made by the United States of Colombia of a strip thirty miles wide across the Isthmus for that purpose. I have the confidence of the negroes. If you will put me in command of the
Benjamnin F. Butler, Butler's Book: Autobiography and Personal Reminiscences of Major-General Benjamin Butler, Index. (search)
utler incurs enmity of, 832. Interchangeable Bonds, proposition in regard to, 956, 957. Ipswich Bay, Butler's summer home near, 919. Ironsides, The, of U. S. Navy, at Fort Fisher, 798. Isham, Governor, reference to, 765. Isthmus of Darien, Butler's scheme for canal across, 904. J Jackson, Andrew, 42, 85, 90. Jackson Musketeers, 124; division less Ransom's and Gracie's brigades, 704. Jackson, Andrew, incident of, 976, 981; reference to, 1007. James, Capt., Wm. H., onppoints Kinsman Lieutenant-Colonel, 893; Shaffer a personal friend of, 894; appoints Governor of Louisiana, 896; Butler retains confidence of, 902; proposition to Confederate commissioners, 902; on the negro question, 903; canal across Isthmus of Darien suggested, 904-907; at City Point, 908; assassinated, 908; Davis believed to be complicated in death of, 915. Lincoln, Mass., Constable Heywood shot at, 1026. Locke, Judge, Joseph, tribute to, 72. Longstreet, at variance with Lee, 879; s