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Browsing named entities in Benjamnin F. Butler, Butler's Book: Autobiography and Personal Reminiscences of Major-General Benjamin Butler. You can also browse the collection for Buell or search for Buell in all documents.

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Benjamnin F. Butler, Butler's Book: Autobiography and Personal Reminiscences of Major-General Benjamin Butler, Chapter 11: military operations. (search)
o his letter:-- Corinth, Miss., July 15, 1862, 10.40 A. M. Hon. E. M. Stanton, Secretary of War: I cannot at present give Commodore Farragut any aid against Vicksburg. I am sending reinforcements to General Curtis in Arkansas, and to General Buell in Tennessee and Kentucky. H. W. Halleck, Major-General. War Records, Vol. XV., p. 519. Now let us look a moment at the position of Beauregard's army, the only great force against Halleck. Both armies had lain for months in the conditiin neglecting Vicksburg and in sending his troops to Washington. There are two answers to that: First, that he did not send any troops there, but made as his excuse for not aiding Farragut the statement that he had sent his troops to reinforce Buell and also Curtis. Those reinforcements so sent away, on then comparatively unimportant errands, would have been invaluable if sent to Vicksburg, which was nearer him than the points where they were actually sent. The other answer is that Presi
Benjamnin F. Butler, Butler's Book: Autobiography and Personal Reminiscences of Major-General Benjamin Butler, Chapter 18: why I was relieved from command. (search)
On the morning of Sunday, March 2, 1862, desiring to give orders for the further movements of Buell's and Halleck's commands, I went to the military telegraph office--then in the headquarters of tion to be cut off from all wires except those leading to Halleck's headquarters at St. Louis and Buell's at Nashville. I then called Buell and Halleck to their respective offices, and asked for a fuBuell and Halleck to their respective offices, and asked for a full report of the condition of affairs, number, position, and condition of their troops, that of the enemy, etc. Buell promptly gave me the information needed. Halleck replied the same day :-- . .Buell promptly gave me the information needed. Halleck replied the same day :-- . . . I have had no communication with General Grant for more than a week. He left his command without my authority and went to Nashville. His army seems to be as much demoralized by the victory of Foeral conduct. On the 15th, Halleck replied that Grant had gone to Nashville to communicate with Buell, that his motives were proper, and advised that no further proceedings be had in the case. No