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Benjamnin F. Butler, Butler's Book: Autobiography and Personal Reminiscences of Major-General Benjamin Butler, Chapter 4: the call for troops. (search)
the Potomac River, its ease or difficulty of access, had nothing to do with the location of the capital. The port of Annapolis in Chesapeake Bay was the port and harbor of Washington, as Havre was of Paris, and it was situated about the same distance from the capital as Havre was from Paris. That while the port of Annapolis was held, the whole country would have access to Washington in a most certain and easy manner, especially for the conveyance of troops, as the great bays Delaware and Chesapeake were in precise and easy connection with it. Chesapeake Bay and Hampton Roads would protect the fleets of the world, and it was not thought desirable among military men, in looking at the defence of a capital, to have it situated close upon the shores of large open seas where it would always be at the mercy of naval attacks and raids of troops by water. The very difficulty of getting up the Potomac, and the ease with which war vessels could be prevented from ascending the river, was one o