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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)
y destruction by it, it was not to be evaded or shunned, and, therefore, was not to be dreaded. When the evenings were dark, her labors with her needle began earlier. In the following winter, my mother and my uncle provided a home for me in Deerfield, with Aunt Polly Dame,--no relative of mine save that she was aunt to all the world. She was a good old lady taken care of by her daughter, and sat in the corner spinning flax on what was called the little wheel, to distinguish it from the gre in 1849, at the age of ninety-nine and a half years, and was able, the summer before she died, to mount her own horse without assistance, and ride out some three miles to visit a neighbor. I attended a partially private school or academy at Deerfield until I was eight years old. In this school almost every branch of practical learning was taught except the languages. There were many young men in the school, and some young women. My teacher was Mr. James Hersey, afterwards postmaster of Ma
Benjamnin F. Butler, Butler's Book: Autobiography and Personal Reminiscences of Major-General Benjamin Butler, Index. (search)
s to proceed through Baltimore, 176. Davis, Flag-Officer, before Vicksburg, 461-462. Dean, Hon., Benjamin, referred to, 1028. Dean, Judge, Henry Clay, threatening speech of, 756. Deep Bottom, expedition against, C93-694, 717-718. Deerfield, attend school at, 49. Dekay, Capt. Sidney B., in New Orleans mob, 375; brings information to Butler, 733; conducts Butler to Fort Harrison, 734-735; accompanies Butler to the opera, 761; reference to, 764; carries message to Porter, 791; trcount of attack at Drury's Bluff, 663-664; censures Butler, 664; captured, 664; succeeds General Ord at Fort Harrison, 734. Heidseick, Charles, acts as spy, 391. Hendricks, at Chicago National Convention, 982. Hersey, James, teacher at Deerfield, 49-50. Herald, New York, Grant in, 863. Heywood, Constable, shot by Carey, 1026. Hicks, Governor, of Maryland, correspondence with, 194; interview with, 195; correspondence with, 208, 211. Hildreth, Dr., Israel, father-in-law of Be