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Benjamnin F. Butler, Butler's Book: Autobiography and Personal Reminiscences of Major-General Benjamin Butler, Chapter 18: why I was relieved from command. (search)
uct had been. It will be observed how promptly and kindly the President replied to me. Soon afterwards I learned that the report which had been sent to Washington had upon it a sufficiently severe endorsement, especially as it contained the baldest misstatement that my report stated that one reason for my return was that I had no intrenching tools, which was untrue, as the report shows. It is a singular fact that this misstatement originated with Porter, who put it in his report of December 31. The fact was I had ordered that Weitzel should take quite a large quantity of intrenching tools, and as Grant thought the number should be increased three or four times, the whole were taken with us. My report, with the endorsement thereon, which had been sent to Washington, was recalled by General Grant, and the endorsement, which was not in the hand-writing of the lieutenant-general, was changed by somebody who erased in a rather bungling way two or more lines by scratching them o