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Benjamnin F. Butler, Butler's Book: Autobiography and Personal Reminiscences of Major-General Benjamin Butler, Chapter 16: capture of fortifications around Richmond, Newmarket Heights, Dutch Gap Canal, elections in New York and gold conspiracy. (search)
tions around Richmond, Newmarket Heights, Dutch Gap Canal, elections in New York and gold conspirac troops demonstrated Medals for bravery Dutch Gap Canal: dug and blown out to let the fleet up thl. In it was imbedded a great deal of Dutch Gap Canal, on James River, below Richmond. Commencwhether it would Bomb-proof quarters at Dutch Gap Canal. come in our excavation so as to do harm k was successfully prosecuted. View of Dutch Gap Canal, on James River, below Richmond. Complett he had made some arrangements View of Dutch Gap Canal, on James River, below Richmond. Blowingjor B. C. Ludlow, begging him not to open Dutch Gap Canal because, this done, Parker was afraid tharang with another of Butler's failures at Dutch Gap Canal. I could not publish that letter in my jur monitors lying near the lower mouth of Dutch Gap Canal. Parker ordered his vessels to up anchorit has not already, become marsh land. Dutch Gap Canal is the only military construction of all
Benjamnin F. Butler, Butler's Book: Autobiography and Personal Reminiscences of Major-General Benjamin Butler, Chapter 17: Fort Fisher. (search)
f staff. See Appendix No. 107. On the same day I received a telegram requiring me to mass the troops that I had gathered for the expedition, and to stand ready to aid General Grant in a movement that he proposed to make, and to blow out Dutch Gap Canal. See Appendix No. 108. I answered at once that orders had been given to carry out these instructions. On the 7th of December my chief of staff received a telegram from my quartermaster, Colonel Dodge, that he could furnish certain meagew no more of the subject than they knew of the events of an unknown world. Thus it will be seen that this experiment was another of Butler's failures through the inefficiency of some of the officers of the navy, as we have already seen was Dutch Gap Canal by the cowardice of another officer of the navy who was afterwards convicted therefor. Yet the experiment was approved to be made by a board of officers detailed as experts by the President and the Secretary of the Navy. They arranged and
Benjamnin F. Butler, Butler's Book: Autobiography and Personal Reminiscences of Major-General Benjamin Butler, Chapter 18: why I was relieved from command. (search)
and exchanging our money and stamps for Confederate money or stamps with which to pay Confederate postage to our prisoners. I employed three clerks, paid them out of that fund, and in addition to that I turned over three thousand dollars extra postage, saved by the difference between our postage currency and Confederate currency. Now what did I do with the money thus gained,--not one cent of which came out of the treasury of the United States? I paid largely the expenses of digging Dutch Gap Canal; I built a hospital at Point of Rocks and furnished it with gas and water, and with cows for milk, and I expended a portion of it in sinking an artesian well, and built barracks for the soldiers at Fortress Monroe. I found convicts, deserters, and others imprisoned at Fort Norfolk, doing nothing but eating their rations. I got a live Yankee and put him in charge as superintendent, and sent to Massachusetts and got prison uniforms, half black and half gray, and scarlet caps, with whi
Benjamnin F. Butler, Butler's Book: Autobiography and Personal Reminiscences of Major-General Benjamin Butler, chapter 24 (search)
From that intrenched camp at Bermuda Hundred, on the 15th of July, I captured Petersburg, but lost it through the sloth or incompetency of a corps commander who had a technical military education. With the Army of the James on the 29th of September, I captured Fort Harrison and a line of intrenched works, a strong part of the defences of Richmond, which were held by my colored troops until Richmond was evacuated. I planned, carried out, and constructed the great strategic work, Dutch Gap Canal, which was prevented from being made entirely efficient only by a naval officer, who was afterward convicted for cowardice in that matter, and which remains to this day a most valuable public work, worth more as a commercial avenue in time of peace than all it cost as a military undertaking. By firmness of purpose which subsequent events have shown to have been the best military judgment, as I knew it was then, I prevented my major-general of division from making an assault on Fort F
Benjamnin F. Butler, Butler's Book: Autobiography and Personal Reminiscences of Major-General Benjamin Butler, Index. (search)
dvances money at New Orleans, 383. Barnard, General, reference to, 666; examines Dutch Gap, 744; approves cutting Dutch Gap Canal, 747; examines Butler's Department, 832; in Grant's personal Memoirs, 856; originates offensive phrase, Bottled up, 2. Durant, Hon. Thomas J., on starving condition of New Orleans, 387; arbitrator in Farragut prize case, 1011. Dutch Gap Canal, 744, 751, 752; reference to, 847. Dyer, General, telegram to Butler from, 779. E Early, General, attacks WParis, Tenn., reference to, 874. Parker, Commodore, succeeds Smith in command on James River, 750; the opening of Dutch Gap Canal, 751; runs from Confederate gunboats, 751; court-martialed, 752. Parson, Lieutenant, in Roanoke Expedition, 781.on to, 873, 874. Smith, Capt., Melancthon, commander of naval forces of the James River, 744; urges completion of Dutch Gap Canal, 750; relieved of his command on the James River, 750. Somerby, G. A., Esq., on the Storm King scurvy case, 1018-