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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)
s at this time, which accused me of a desire to feed the moths with overcoats, and praised my shrewdness in getting up the scare so as to get for the company in which I was a stockholder the contract for cloth to feed the insects. On the 11th day of April, the legislature, having practically disarmed the Commonwealth (for its troops could not be moved without the expenditure of appropriated money), adjourned without delay, and went home in happiness, at the bright prospect of lasting peace. Another event happened on that same 11th day of April, which showed how little the legislature of Massachusetts knew of the condition of the country, and of the determination of the South to make war. The rebels opened fire on Fort Sumter. Gen. William Schouler, who was the first adjutant-general appointed by Governor Andrew, and who remained in that office during the war, published a book in 1869, entitled The history of Massachusetts in the civil War, in which he relates with great part