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Benjamnin F. Butler, Butler's Book: Autobiography and Personal Reminiscences of Major-General Benjamin Butler, Chapter 4: the call for troops. (search)
th, for recalling attention to the documents which show what I had done, as well as to my statement of what I had done, because if as to the last my memory should have failed me, which I do not think possible, the documentary evidence is irreversible. It appears, then, that upon the very first days of January, even before his inauguration, I reported the condition of things to Governor Andrew, and urged the necessity that our troops should be put in full readiness to march. On the 19th of January, in my brigade, resolutions were passed tendering the services of my home regiment to Governor Andrew and the legislature. On January 22 those resolutions were received by Governor Andrew, and immediately communicated to the legislature as being received from my hands. On the 5th of February, the legislature appropriated one hundred thousand dollars to put the troops in readiness and provide for their transportation. This emergency bill was passed at a secret session, at which I wa