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Benjamnin F. Butler, Butler's Book: Autobiography and Personal Reminiscences of Major-General Benjamin Butler, Chapter 21: practice of the law. (search)
ts strongly urged him to the same dishonor. But he never hesitated an instant, and uniformly justified the coalition, and openly defended it in every presence and to the most unwilling ears. In his personal relations the same traits are observable. He is quite too ready, I have sometimes thought, to forgive (he never forgets) injuries, but his memory never fails as to his friends. The basis of Napoleon's character, says Gourgand, was a pleasant humor. And a man who jests, continues Victor Hugo, at important junctures, is on familiar terms with events. A pleasant humor and a lively wit, and their constant exercise, are the possession and the habit of General Butler. Everybody has his anecdote of him. Let me refer to one anecdote of him in this respect, and that shall suffice for the hundreds that I might recall. The General was a member of our House of Representatives one year when his party was in a hopeless and impotent minority, except on such occasions as he contrived
Benjamnin F. Butler, Butler's Book: Autobiography and Personal Reminiscences of Major-General Benjamin Butler, Index. (search)
0. Homans, Charles E., locomotive, 202. Hotel Chamberlain, Washington, Mahone's letter to Lacy written at, 881. Hood, General, reference to, 655; and Batte's battalions of Virginia militia, 679. Hopping, Nicholas, teacher, anecdote of, 56. Howard, Gen. O. O., graduate of West Point, 58. Howe, Elias, reference to, 1007. Hudson Bay Company, 1001. Hudson, Chaplain, attacks Butler in New York Evening Post, 833; reports to Butler, 833-835; arrested, 835; released, 836. Hugo, Victor, quoted, 997. Humphreys, Maj.-Gen. A. A., reference to book published by, 738, 741. Hunton, Brig.-Gen., Eppa, reference to, 620. I Ingalls, General, ordered to furnish transportation for Roanoke expedition, 783; Butler incurs enmity of, 832. Interchangeable Bonds, proposition in regard to, 956, 957. Ipswich Bay, Butler's summer home near, 919. Ironsides, The, of U. S. Navy, at Fort Fisher, 798. Isham, Governor, reference to, 765. Isthmus of Darien, Butler's sche