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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)
gh. I have reported you to General Scott, and here is your order to report to him forthwith, and here is a pass for you to go, and if you don't go by the next train, I will send you under guard. Good-morning, sir. And as long as General Scott had anything to do with the army, Colonel Keyes was not Field Marshal. Among the orders that came to me from Scott, was one creating the military department of Annapolis. It read as follows:-- War Department, Adjutant-General's office, April 27, 1861. A new military department to be called the Department of Annapolis, headquarters at that city, will include the country for twenty miles on each side of the railroad from Annapolis to the city of Washington, as far as Bladensburg, Maryland. Brigadier-General B. F. Butler, Massachusetts Volunteers, is assigned to the command. L. Thomas, Adjutant-General. So I was again out of the shadow of West Point. There are one or two episodes which enlivened the routine of superintending