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Benjamnin F. Butler, Butler's Book: Autobiography and Personal Reminiscences of Major-General Benjamin Butler, Chapter 7: recruiting in New England. (search)
ths steadily, and we did not do $50,000 worth of actual damage; we did not kill as many men in Charleston as we burned tons of powder. There will be no more bombardments of forts even, since the fiasco of Porter at Forts Jackson and St. Philip. Bombardments as matters of importance in war will take their place with bayonet wounds and sword cuts. I was casting my eye the other day over a page of the consolidated report of the wounds received at the battles of North Anna, from May 21 to May 26, 1864. In these engagements the total strength of the army was 51,659, and the whole number of wounded was 1,046. There was just one bayonet wound and no sword cut. Yet we all remember we were told how reckless the enemy was in charging upon our men sword in hand and with bayonets fixed. As to the expenses of the bombardment of our cities: If England had declared war, by the rules and laws of war that act would have confiscated all the debts our people owed to the subjects of the crown of
Benjamnin F. Butler, Butler's Book: Autobiography and Personal Reminiscences of Major-General Benjamin Butler, Chapter 18: why I was relieved from command. (search)
stion had been put to me by Mr. Odell:-- Q.--You have noticed in the communication to which you have reference that one of the alleged causes for your removal was your arbitrary arrests. Has General Grant ever spoken to you upon that subject? A.--General Grant never spoke to me but once of arbitrary arrest, and with your leave I will state what that one was; and if I am removed for that I am well pleased to meet the issue. (I will condense my further answer:) Previous to the 26th of May, 1864, a very decided attack upon my action at Drury's Bluff, saying that I had not intrenched as I should have done, was published in the New York Evening Post. I sent to General Gillmore on the night of the 26th of May, and asked him if he had authorized the statement in any form. He said he had not. I then went to work to find out who had written that communication, as it evidently came from General Gillmore's headquarters. About a month afterwards I ascertained that it was written by o