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Benjamnin F. Butler, Butler's Book: Autobiography and Personal Reminiscences of Major-General Benjamin Butler, Chapter 10: the woman order, Mumford's execution, etc. (search)
d them, so far as I have any evidence, was that almost immediately afterwards, on June 10 and 15, his entire army dissolved. War Correspondence, Series I., Vol. XV., p. 501. It was post hoc if not propter hoc. He was taken sick, resigned his command, and went to Bladon Springs to recover. Palmerston, however, got up in Parliament and denounced the order as unfit to be written in the English language. The only possible objectionable phrase in it was part of an ordinance of the city of London, from which I adapted it. Palmerston's indignation even went so far, and the women-beaters and wife-whippers of England were so shocked, that they called upon their government to represent their condemnation of the order to our State Department. When their minister here brought it to the attention of our Secretary of State, Mr. Seward answered him in that easy and perfect manner with which he could turn away an application without leaving an opportunity for the interlocutor to gather offenc
Benjamnin F. Butler, Butler's Book: Autobiography and Personal Reminiscences of Major-General Benjamin Butler, Chapter 18: why I was relieved from command. (search)
t him except to avoid him. Badeau found himself in the army a lieutenant of infantry, unassigned, serving as aid of Brigadier-General Sherman [not William T.]. He seems to have attached himself to Grant as a sort of military secretary. His name does not appear, even mentioned in the War Records of the campaign around Richmond. He availed himself of his intimacy to publish a history of Grant to his own great profit. Grant appointed him Secretary of Legation and afterwards Consul-General at London, one of the most profitable offices in the gift of the President. He remained there nine years. Hayes removed him and appointed him Consul-General at Havana, another very lucrative office, where he remained until his conduct was such as to require his resignation. In the meantime for his great services to the Union in suppressing the Rebellion he was retired as an officer of the army of rank with large pay and emolument. He then claimed that he was employed by Grant to assist him in rev