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Benjamnin F. Butler, Butler's Book: Autobiography and Personal Reminiscences of Major-General Benjamin Butler, Chapter 1: lineage and education. (search)
r) Academy Rev. Mr. Edson, founder of Lowell's schools clergyman objects to West Point intended for the ministry life at Waterville College Theological conflict g, then a member of Congress from Massachusetts, to give me an appointment at West Point, a thing of which I was very desirous. He had known my mother, and knew thatt. My mother's clergyman, a good Baptist, was consulted upon my being sent to West Point. He advised strongly against it. He said that I was a religiously inclined boy, and one well versed in religious principles; and at West Point there was, he understood, a great deal of free-thinking among the pupils, if not among the teachersfor whom he was dealing. He ought to have known that if I had been sent to West Point, and had my comrades, or anybody else, derided, scoffed at, or belittled the ossibly would have been one of the few religious gentlemen who have come from West Point, like General O. O. Howard. So I was sent to Waterville, where a majority
Benjamnin F. Butler, Butler's Book: Autobiography and Personal Reminiscences of Major-General Benjamin Butler, Chapter 2: early political action and military training. (search)
their four children why the youngest was sent to West Point a War every generation the Butler coat of arms a Daguerreotype. Ben Israel was appointed to West Point when I was in Congress. I had already made threee a part in his generation, I had him educated at West Point, so that his efforts for his country might not beals in the I War of the Rebellion who had been at West Point and had achieved success, had quitted the professen. The eldest, Butler Ames, is now a student at West Point. So, God willing, one of the race will be in theever seen them done by any body of men outside of West Point. Of course we were not as good as regulars in ew brigadier-general an appointment as visitor at West Point, authorizing me to examine that institution. Thuy the Secretary of War, Jefferson Davis. When at West Point, I was introduced to General Scott, who took me c had no military experience, never having been to West Point. He forgot that putting an animal into a stable
Benjamnin F. Butler, Butler's Book: Autobiography and Personal Reminiscences of Major-General Benjamin Butler, Chapter 4: the call for troops. (search)
he New York Seventh episode of Lieutenant-Colonel Keyes, also of West Point Filled with apprehension, I returned to Boston about the 28th by reading these two political pamphlets which are not taught at West Point, and probably had never been read by any West Point man then alivWest Point man then alive. And the knowledge thus derived determined me upon the proposition with which I set out as the last and best resort for defending Washingto to be that he had picked up somewhere a man who had once been at West Point, to accompany and cosset him in his command. Lefferts never callsir. Have you examined them? No, sir; but I was educated at West Point. That was the first time in carrying on war, that West Point hWest Point had ever interfered to render my movements abortive, but not the last time by a great deal, as we shall see hereafter. It stirred me then, as Thomas, Adjutant-General. So I was again out of the shadow of West Point. There are one or two episodes which enlivened the routine of su
Benjamnin F. Butler, Butler's Book: Autobiography and Personal Reminiscences of Major-General Benjamin Butler, Chapter 8: from Hatteras to New Orleans. (search)
r people to read. Not twenty-five thousand shells were thrown altogether, but five thousand only. Not one thousand struck inside the fort, but only three hundred during the whole bombardment, and at the time of Duncan's report the last day's firing had not been counted. Duncan's report reads exactly like some of the magazine war articles written by our officers who wish to establish reputations for bravery and endurance, but are somewhat economical of truth. As Duncan was educated at West Point he was taught in the same way as were these officers who write magazine articles and war books. There had been two days bombardment, when consideration had to be given to another defence of the rebels,--a chain cable across the river. This barrier had at first been made of logs fastened by shackles end to end, so as to float upon the surface. It had been thrown across the river in the early spring, the chain of logs being within point blank fire of Fort Jackson and the other end on th
Benjamnin F. Butler, Butler's Book: Autobiography and Personal Reminiscences of Major-General Benjamin Butler, Chapter 13: occupations in 1863; exchange of prisoners. (search)
stion was, whether all the negro troops then enlisted and organized should be collected together and made a part of the Army of the Potomac and thus reinforce it. He remarked that the States were beginning to organize negro troops, and that I could soon have a large corps, and he wanted me in the Army of the Potomac. I then said to him:-- Frankly, Mr. President, I do not want to go into the Army of the Potomac. I have never given cause for any prejudice against me by the officers from West Point. Now McClellan has put almost all the brigades in charge of lieutenants, captains, and majors of the regular army, and they all think they are very much my superior in the knowledge of everything pertaining to the art of war. Even members of my staff, good men and true, have occasionally intruded upon me such belief. When I went to New Orleans, you will remember, I told you when you said something of my taking some place in the Army of the Potomac, that the jealousies, feuds, and embroil
Benjamnin F. Butler, Butler's Book: Autobiography and Personal Reminiscences of Major-General Benjamin Butler, Chapter 18: why I was relieved from command. (search)
to Butler's ability something about one Badeau West Point and its claim to all military wisdom Grant did not get enough West Point to hurt him Halleck's efforts to get Butler removed Halleck's characteristics described West Point Intriguers among the Confederates after Gettysburg Lee offers to resign in Mahone's favor B an order was given and some of whom were boys at West Point when I was a major-general in command of armies, by politicians, in order, they say, to break down West Point influence. It will not be difficult to draw concnteer general, one of the civilian generals. But West Point must have the possession of the regular army. We enjoyed one set-off to the clannishness of West Point, and its opposition to every high officer that wanjoyed identically the same sort of setbacks from West Point, and I am inclined to think, in a degree quite asocument. Facsimile document. is so galling to West Point on the rebel side of the house that it has been v
Benjamnin F. Butler, Butler's Book: Autobiography and Personal Reminiscences of Major-General Benjamin Butler, Chapter 19: observations upon matters connected with the War. (search)
y dealt with those who got in my way. Gentlemen holding staff positions in the army, and especially at Washington in time of peace, who have been educated at West Point, in the language of General Sherman, too commonly construe themselves into the élite, as made of better clay than the common soldier. I had a few of such detaiommission reached him on his dying bed. Col. George A. Kensel was my chief of artillery and inspector-general. He was a Kentuckian, having been appointed to West Point by General Breckinridge, but was loyal to the cause. He was one of the young artillery officers who, when I went to Fortress Monroe in 1861, had accepted an apry, were of the greatest value in whatever position he found himself. With Colonel Shaffer there was sent to me Brig.-Gen. J. W. Turner. He had graduated at West Point. He was my chief commissary, and afforded me very great and efficient aid in seeing to the provisioning not only of the army, but of a large portion of the peo