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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)
ion of it preparing to capture the ferry-boat Maryland a soldier who was anxious to fight and another who Wasn't arrival at Annapolis and the naval Academy Oh, won't you save the Constitution? Militiamen should know how to cook arrival of the New York Seventh the Colonel's West Point dry nurse private Homans and the locomotive some remarks on the New York Seventh episode of Lieutenant-Colonel Keyes, also of West Point Filled with apprehension, I returned to Boston about the 28th of December, being delayed one day in a snowstorm. I felt it my duty immediately to call upon Governor Andrew, and state to him that I believed there was to be an attempt, on the 4th of March, to prevent, by armed force, the inauguration of Lincoln, in Washington; and that it seemed to me that Massachusetts should be prepared to meet such a crisis, by having her militia ready to march to the aid of the government. I explained to him that while we were quite well equipped with arms for service,