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Bunting (search for this): chapter 18
lature is in session. This logic and this irony were unanswerable, and the General was never again troubled with the protests of the Maryland Executive. On the morning of the 24th, the combined regiments moved forward at the rate of about a mile an hour, laying the track anew and building bridges. Skirmishers went ahead and scouts on the flanks. The main column was led by a working party on the road, behind which followed a car with a howitzer loaded with grape-shot, in charge of Lieutenant Bunting. It was a hot April morning, and the men suffered much from heat and fatigue. They had a stretch of twenty-one miles to go over between Annapolis and the Junction. A shower in the afternoon, and balmy air and bright moonlight in the evening, with the freshness of early spring, gave them pleasure in the midst of their toil. All night long they moved forward, keeping very vigilant eyes upon the surrounding country, but falling in with none of those terrible Marylanders which the Gove
Benjamin F. Butler (search for this): chapter 18
on against Baltimore, 441. plans of Scott and Butler against Baltimore, 442. opposing forces in MaMassachusetts, December 31, 1861, page 22. Butler left Philadelphia at eleven o'clock in the moralign control of the secessionists, was urging Butler not to land Northern troops. The excitement h that you had better take your men elsewhere. Butler, in reply, spoke of his necessities and his orlled almost any other man and body of men; but Butler generally exhibited an illustration of the trus leading to Baltimore and Harper's Ferry. General Butler accompanied the troops, and established a bights back of the Relay House, near which General Butler encamped, was a regular earthwork, called ral-in-chief. He had learned the metal of General Butler, and was not inclined to cast any obstacleenient Government released him. the inventor. Butler had promised Colonel Jones, of the Sixth, whicals of war intended for the insurgents; General Butler ascertained that a large quantity of arms,[50 more...]
George Cadwalader (search for this): chapter 18
commission of a Major-General of Volunteers, and the command of a much more extended military district, including Eastern Virginia and the two Carolinas, with his Headquarters at Fortress Monroe. He was succeeded in command at Baltimore by General Cadwalader, of Philadelphia, and the troops were temporarily withdrawn. Afterward the Fifth New York Regiment (Zouave), Colonel Abraham Duryee, occupied Federal Hill, and thereon built the strong earthwork known as Fort Federal Hill, whose cannon comses, at the beginning, was that of John Merryman, a member of the Maryland Legislature, who was cast into Fort McHenry late in May. The Chief-Justice of the United States (R. B. Taney), residing in Baltimore, took action in the matter, but General Cadwalader, the commander of the department, refused to obey the mandates of this functionary, as well as that of the inferior judge, and the matter was dropped, excepting in the form of personal, newspaper, and legislative discussions of the subject,
Simon Cameron (search for this): chapter 18
ned, unnecessary. The Lieutenant-General thought that the Brigadier had used too daringly the absolute power accorded to a commander of a department, unless restricted by specific orders or military law, and overlooking, for the moment, the immense advantages gained for the Government by such exercise of power, he insisted upon the recall of General Butler from Baltimore. It was done. Viewed in the light of to-day, that recall appears like an almost fatal mistake. I always said, wrote Mr. Cameron, then Secretary of War, from St. Petersburg, many The Department of Annapolis. months afterward, that if you had been left in Baltimore, the rebellion would have been of short duration. Parton's General Butler at New Orleans, page 117. There was no rebuke :in President Lincoln's recall of General Butler from Baltimore, in compliance with the wishes of General Scott. On the contrary, it had the appearance of commendation, for he immediately offered him the commission of a Major-
T. J. Cate (search for this): chapter 18
orious than to have founded them. At the middle of May, Washington City was safe, for thousands of well-armed loyal men were within its borders. Troops were quartered in the immense Patent Office building. The Capitol was a vast citadel Its legislative halls, its rotunda, and other rooms were filled with soldiery, and its basement galleries were converted into store-rooms for barrels of beef, pork, and other materials for army rations in great abundance. Under the direction of Lieutenant T. J. Cate, of the Massachusetts Sixth, the vaults under the broad terrace on the western front of the Capitol were converted into bakeries, where sixteen thousand loaves of bread were bake d every day. The chimneys of the ovens pierced the terrace at the junction of the freestone pavement and the grassy slope of the glacis, as seen in the picture; and there for months, Government bakeries at the Capitol. smoke poured forth in dense black columns like the issues of a smoldering volcano Befor
Frederick Christ (search for this): chapter 18
d day. --The History of the Civil War in America: by J. S. C. Abbott, i. 108. In contrast with this was the letter of a Baltimore mother to her loyal son, a clergyman in Boston, who, on, the Sunday after the attack on Fort Sumter, preached a patriotic discourse to his people. The letter was as follows:-- Baltimore, April 17, 1861. my dear son:--Your remarks last Sabbath were telegraphed to Baltimore, and published in an extra. Has God sent you to preach the sword, or to preach Christ? your Mother. The son replied:-- Boston, April 22, 1861. dear Mother:--God has sent me not only to preach the sword, but to use it. When this Government tumbles, look amongst the ruins for your Star-Spangled banner son. and within ten days from the time of its departure, full ten thousand men of the city of New York were on the march toward the Capital. John Sherman, now (1865) United States Senator from Ohio, was then an aid-de-camp of General Patterson. He was sent by that
Major A. M. Cook (search for this): chapter 18
the 4th of May, while the Commissioners of the Maryland Legislature were protesting before the President against Butler's occupation of their political capital, he issued orders for the Eighth New York and Sixth Massachusetts regiments, with Major A. M. Cook's battery of the Boston Light Artillery, to be ready to march at two o'clock the next morning. These troops were in Washington City. At dawn on the 5th, they left the Capital in thirty cars; and about two hours later they alighted at the Rade his going into Baltimore with his troops, he prepared to do so. Already a party of the Sixth Massachusetts had performed good service, in connection with a company of the New York Eighth and two guns of the Boston Light Artillery, all under Major Cook, in capturing Winans's steam-gun at Ellicott's Mills, May 10, 1861. together with Dickinson, See page 440. Winans was an aged man, a thorough secessionist, and worth, it was estimated, about fifteen millions of dollars. It was reported tha
John W. Davis (search for this): chapter 18
the name of the National Government. The policemen refused compliance, until they should receive orders to that effect from Marshal Kane, to whom word was immediately sent. A large crowd rapidly collected at the spot, but were quiet. Kane soon appeared, with a deputy marshal and several policemen, when Hare, in the name of General Butler, repeated the demand for a surrender. Kane replied that he could not do so without the sanction of the Police Commissioners. In the mean time, Commissioner J. W. Davis had arrived, and, after consultation, he hastened to the office of the Board of Police, when that body determined to surrender the arms under protest, and they did so. The doors of the warehouse were then opened, and thirty-five drays and furniture wagons were employed in carrying away the arms. They were in boxes, ready for shipment to the insurgents in Virginia or elsewhere, and consisted of two thousand two hundred muskets, and four thousand and twenty pikes or spears, manufactu
Ben Deford (search for this): chapter 18
nel Robert Hare, of Ellicott's Mills, and Captain McConnell, through Lee, Hanover,, Montgomery, and Light Streets, to the foot of Federal Hill. The night was intensely dark, made so by the impending storm. The flashes of lightning and peals of thunder were terrific, but the rain was withheld until they had nearly reached their destination. Then it came like a flood, just as they commenced the ascent of the declivity. The spectacle was grand, said the General to the writer, while on the Ben Deford, lying off Fort Fisher one pleasant evening in December, 1864. I was the first to reach the summit. The rain was falling in immense volumes, and the lightning flashes followed each other in rapid succession making the point of every bayonet in that slow-moving Butler's Headquarters on Federal Hill. column appear like a tongue of flame, and the burnished brass cannon like sheets of fire. Officers and men were tho roughly drenched, and on the summit of the, hill they found very little
Charles S. Dickinson (search for this): chapter 18
city were organized for treasonable work under Colonel J. R. Trimble and others. Winans's steam-gun. On Sunday, the 21st, cannon were exercised openly in the streets. A remarkable piece of ordnance, called a steam-gun, invented by Charles S. Dickinson, and manufactured by Ross Winans, a wealthy iron-worker of Baltimore, was purchased by the city authorities at the price of twenty-five hundred dollars. Much was expected of this invention, for it was claimed that it could throw two hundreth Massachusetts had performed good service, in connection with a company of the New York Eighth and two guns of the Boston Light Artillery, all under Major Cook, in capturing Winans's steam-gun at Ellicott's Mills, May 10, 1861. together with Dickinson, See page 440. Winans was an aged man, a thorough secessionist, and worth, it was estimated, about fifteen millions of dollars. It was reported that he contributed largely in aid of the revolutionists; and that, among other things for their
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