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Benjamnin F. Butler, Butler's Book: Autobiography and Personal Reminiscences of Major-General Benjamin Butler, Chapter 2: early political action and military training. (search)
s no means of determining. Early in the session of 1851 Robert Rantoul, Jr., than whom the State never boasted a more eloquent or logical man as a political debater, was elected to the short term in the U. S. Senate, in the place of the Hon. Robert C. Winthrop, who had been appointed by the governor to succeed Webster in the Senate. Winthrop was the candidate of the opposition to Charles Sumner, who was loyally supported by the Coalition Democrats, or those who were elected on that ticket, Winthrop was the candidate of the opposition to Charles Sumner, who was loyally supported by the Coalition Democrats, or those who were elected on that ticket, with the exception of two or three. From the first, Sumner received within a very few votes of a majority, though bitterly opposed by the Hunker Democrats and all the Whigs, sixteen persons receiving scattering votes. The voting went on until April of that year, when Sumner lacked only two votes of an election. But the count disclosed that there had been two more votes cast than there were members present. Early in the session a bill for voting by sealed envelopes at State elections was in
Benjamnin F. Butler, Butler's Book: Autobiography and Personal Reminiscences of Major-General Benjamin Butler, Chapter 4: the call for troops. (search)
nown to two gentlemen who were connected with the New York Seventh. One was Major Winthrop, one of the noblest of God's noblemen, and the other was Col. Schuyler Haminduct, and was made military secretary to General Scott while in Mexico. Both Winthrop and Hamilton were, then acting as privates in the New York Seventh, and WinthrWinthrop had enlisted for the time only which the Seventh had agreed to go to war. Hamilton was accepted by me as a volunteer aid on my staff, and I told Winthrop to serve Winthrop to serve out his time with the regiment, because those were the terms of his enlistment, and then to come to me wherever I was and I would give him a place on my staff. This ighth Massachusetts and Seventh New York is told in that beautiful story by Major Winthrop, which reads like a poem. I do not care to go into the detail of the incidsabled locomotive or weighing the anchor of the good ship Constitution. While Winthrop was a member of the Seventh, and wished in his loyalty to give it all the cred
Benjamnin F. Butler, Butler's Book: Autobiography and Personal Reminiscences of Major-General Benjamin Butler, Chapter 6: contraband of War, Big Bethel and Hatteras. (search)
h; Wendell Phillips said a bad one. My staff officer, Major Winthrop, insisted it was an epigram which freed the slaves. Ta personal reconnoissance of the lay of the country by Major Winthrop, I came to the conclusion to attempt to take this postbage head to undertake to do anything, except it might be Winthrop. Greble held his position an hour and a half, while the and at once concluded to retire. He did retire, leaving Winthrop near the fort in expectation of instant victory. WinthroWinthrop did not know that the order had been given for the retirement of Townsend's troops. Winthrop sprang upon a log to take a Winthrop sprang upon a log to take a view of the situation, and see how matters stood. He was supported by one private. All the rest of his support had retiredarer to it than you? No; there were some as near. But Winthrop went clear up farther than any of us, and then he. went borge Scott, who was to have a shooting iron and accompany Winthrop, and found him The contraband of War. meeting of Gen.
Benjamnin F. Butler, Butler's Book: Autobiography and Personal Reminiscences of Major-General Benjamin Butler, Index. (search)
le College, life at, 57, 69. Watson, Lieutenant-Colonel, mention of in command of picked men of Massachusetts Sixth Regiment, 229. Weber, Col. Max, in attack on Fort Hatteras, 283. Webster, Daniel, tribute to, 64; succeeded in Senate by Winthrop, 116; his political death, 131. Weitzel, Gen., Godfrey, prepares material for storming Forts Jackson and St. Philip, 358; valuable knowledge regarding those forts, 359, 363, 365; report regarding forts, 369; examines and repairs forts, 465, 4g, Union forces occupy, 617; colored cavalry at, 638; move under West to, 640. Wilmington expedition, 774, 779, 782, 830; blockade runners enter harbor, 849. Windmill Point, Hancock at, 686. Winans, Ross, 227, 229, 233, 235, 239. Winthrop, Robert C., appointed U. S. Senator, 116. Winthrop, Theodore, first meeting with, 201; story of march to Washington, 203; opinion of contraband story, 259; draws order attack Big Bethel, 267; killed at Big Bethel, 269-270. Wise, Brigadier-Gene