Browsing named entities in Benjamnin F. Butler, Butler's Book: Autobiography and Personal Reminiscences of Major-General Benjamin Butler. You can also browse the collection for Willards (Maryland, United States) or search for Willards (Maryland, United States) in all documents.

Your search returned 1 result in 1 document section:

Benjamnin F. Butler, Butler's Book: Autobiography and Personal Reminiscences of Major-General Benjamin Butler, Chapter 17: Fort Fisher. (search)
. And though I have suffered more from thus acting on my judgment than from any other act of my life, I rejoice — I trust modestly — with exceeding joy that I had sufficient firmness to do as I did do. Weitzel had no profession but arms, and his disobedience of orders would have ruined him in that profession. That we foresaw the result when we acted, and that I endeavored to repair for Weitzel as much as I could the consequences of his act, will appear from the letters between us:-- Willard's, Jan. 23, 1865. Maj.-Gen. G. Weitzel: My Dear Weitzel:--I am afraid you have been annoyed lest I might possibly think that your advice at Fort Fisher was not such as I ought to have acted upon. Let me assure you that I have never in any moment, amid the delightful stream of obloquy which is pouring upon me, doubted the military sagacity of the advice you gave, or the propriety of my action under it. Indeed, my friend, I am glad I was there to act as a shield to a young officer in a mom