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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)
ably of the treatment they had received from you; and with all my inquiries, which were constant, I did not hear of one single instance of a lady being insulted by your command. I am, most respectfully, your obedient servant, M. Jeff. Thompson, Brigadier-General, M. S. G. It was read by Beauregard to his army at Corinth, to inflame the Southern heart; but the only effect that it had upon him and 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
Benjamnin F. Butler, Butler's Book: Autobiography and Personal Reminiscences of Major-General Benjamin Butler, Chapter 15: operations of the Army of the James around Richmond and Petersburg. (search)
utler becomes a target a pontoon Bridge built under difficulties Gen. William F. Smith ordered to attack Petersburg on June 15 he dallies and delays until it is too late Conduct and character of Smith critically considered his accusation that Gen, in any matter, are not reliable. I have already touched upon the mendacity of his report to me at midnight of the 15th of June that General Hancock had not then come up, and called attention to the statements of Lieutenant Davenport, my staff ofed went into park close to the James River, but not within sight of it. . . . . . . . . . . . . . On the morning of June 15th we moved close to the James River and parked. I was lying under a tree near an old abandoned house. Below me and a liin the breast pocket of the coat of a Confederate officer, who was killed in front of their lines at Bermuda Hundred, on June 15, was found the morning report of the Confederate army which was defending Petersburg on that day, and that this report s
Benjamnin F. Butler, Butler's Book: Autobiography and Personal Reminiscences of Major-General Benjamin Butler, Chapter 16: capture of fortifications around Richmond, Newmarket Heights, Dutch Gap Canal, elections in New York and gold conspiracy. (search)
ped to do two things which had not been done before — to surprise the enemy and at least gain and hold the outer line of their fortifications, and perhaps, if I had good luck, take Chaffin's farm and get into Richmond. I further told him that I had another thing in view. The affair of the mine at Petersburg, which had been discussed between us, had convinced me that in the Army of the Potomac negro troops were thought of no value, and with the exception of an attack under Smith on the 15th of June, where they were prevented from entering Petersburg by the sloth, inaction, or I believe worse, of Smith, the negro troops had had no chance to show their valor or staying qualities in action. I told him that I meant to take a large part of my negro force, and under my personal command make an attack upon Newmarket Heights, the redoubt to the extreme left of the enemy's line. If I could take that and turn it, then I was certain that I could gain the first line of the enemy's intrenchmen
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 the city of Norfolk, for paving, etc., and on the Dismal Swamp Canal to which the United States paid large rents, to the amount of about $38,000, while my whole prison labor cost less than $9,000. Besides this, from the 15th of April to the 15th of June there was taken a thousand loads of filth per week from Norfolk, and by this means the yellow fever was kept out. The act of Congress had provided for a contraband ration. I found that in the way this had been managed there had been great rom both armies, to move in attack upon Richmond and elsewhere:-- May 28, Smith's corps to Cold Harbor; returned June 14. June 9, Gillmore crossed the Appomattox and attacked Petersburg. June 11, I sent Gillmore to attack Petersburg. June 15, the Eighteenth Corps under Smith was sent to attack Petersburg by order of Grant. June 16, the Sixth Corps under Wright; afterwards sent thence to Washington. June 21, expedition to Deep Bottom, crossing the pontoon bridge to the south si
Benjamnin F. Butler, Butler's Book: Autobiography and Personal Reminiscences of Major-General Benjamin Butler, Appendix. (search)
e facts I reported to you upon my return to headquarters between 6 and 7 A. M. on June 16. I desire to call your attention to the fact that the night of the 15th of June was one of the most favorable nights which an army had ever presented for a night assault. The moon was substantially full, and the night as clear and bright ar as any public utterances of his are known, never by word or by pen, answered the severe and adverse criticisms upon his failure to capture Petersburg on the 15th of June, although, with hardly an exception, every speaker and writer upon the subject on either side has maintained that nothing but his inaction prevented it from bend Corps until the attack was repulsed, when it was withdrawn towards the right. Concerning the failure of the Eighteenth Corps to capture Petersburg on the 15th of June, I can only state from memory that the corps marched from the vicinity of Broadway on the Appomattox at 7 o'clock A. M. or later; I had expected that the movem