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Benjamnin F. Butler, Butler's Book: Autobiography and Personal Reminiscences of Major-General Benjamin Butler, Chapter 17: Fort Fisher. (search)
ked unfavorable, and I telegraphed General Grant that the army was ready, and was waiting for the navy. See Appendix No. 115. On the next Monday evening the fleet not having yet sailed, I ordered nearly all the transports to move up Chesapeake Bay to the Potomac River and Matthias Point, and then if they could, to return in the night-time and anchor off Cape Henry. They were started at 3 o'clock on the morning of Tuesday the 13th. We knew the enemy continually kept scouts in Northumberland County, Va., at the mouth of the Potomac, to report every transport that passed up and down the bay, in fact, everything that occurred there. We had frequently seen their reports in the Richmond papers. I ordered the fleet to go up the bay that they might be reported to the enemy as going up the Potomac. Then, after dark, they were to come down the bay again with all lights put out, and thus deceive the enemy as to our movements. Early on the morning of Wednesday, the 14th, a steamer cam
Benjamnin F. Butler, Butler's Book: Autobiography and Personal Reminiscences of Major-General Benjamin Butler, Index. (search)
's Life of Lincoln, critical references to, 219, 227, 243, 260, 264, 421. Nim's battery, 460. Ninth Connecticut regiment, story of, 311, 316, at Baton Rouge, 483; at Camp Moore, 460. Ninth New Jersey, position at Drury's bluff, 663. Norfolk, Union forces occupy, 617; Butler confers with Porter at, 785; goods received and examined at, 843; yellow fever prevented, 847; needy assisted, 848; Shepley sent to Fortress Monroe, 871. North Anna, reference to battle of, 710. Northumberland Co., Va., Confederate scouts in, 785. Nottingham Square, Butler goes to school at, 44-46. O Odell investigates causes of Butler's removal, 833; Butler's answer to, 833. Oliver, Gen. H. K., 172. One Hundred and Forty-Eighth New York Volunteers' expedition into Chesapeake Bay, 617. Orr, South Carolina secession commissioner, 156. Ord, Major-General, Butler's order to, regarding movement to surprise Confederate forces around Richmond, 722-730; starts on expedition, 730; captu