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Adam Badeau, Military history of Ulysses S. Grant from April 1861 to April 1865. Volume 3 309 19 Browse Search
Adam Badeau, Military history of Ulysses S. Grant from April 1861 to April 1865. Volume 2 309 19 Browse Search
General Horace Porter, Campaigning with Grant 170 20 Browse Search
J. B. Jones, A Rebel War Clerk's Diary 117 33 Browse Search
Comte de Paris, History of the Civil War in America. Vol. 2. (ed. Henry Coppee , LL.D.) 65 11 Browse Search
Edward Porter Alexander, Military memoirs of a Confederate: a critical narrative 62 2 Browse Search
Comte de Paris, History of the Civil War in America. Vol. 1. (ed. Henry Coppee , LL.D.) 36 2 Browse Search
William Tecumseh Sherman, Memoirs of General William T. Sherman . 34 12 Browse Search
Fitzhugh Lee, General Lee 29 3 Browse Search
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 2. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones) 29 3 Browse Search
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Comte de Paris, History of the Civil War in America. Vol. 1. (ed. Henry Coppee , LL.D.), Book II:—secession. (search)
ctivity. Reinforcements were promptly sent to Butler, who landed them and took possession of Annapotested in vain against the bold proceedings of Butler; but the militia, which had been called out, dge, and no longer concealed their sympathies. Butler, who had remained at Annapolis Junction, deterdaring act to oppose his course. On the 14th, Butler made a feint to the westward, and, while Genernfederates. It was three days after this that Butler recaptured Baltimore. The occupation of thearious points in Virginia. On the 22d of May, Butler arrived at Fort Monroe, where he soon receivedwith the peculiar institutions of the States. Butler had always been politically opposed to the Reption had been proclaimed. By the 27th of May, Butler had firmly established himself around Fortressederal commanders, and stimulated their zeal. Butler, who had then four or five thousand men under e stationed at the points most threatened; and Butler took upon himself the responsibility of orderi[2 more...]
Comte de Paris, History of the Civil War in America. Vol. 1. (ed. Henry Coppee , LL.D.), Book III:—the first conflict. (search)
ing campaigns that were in store for them, or the defeats that brought ruin to their cause, and which very few among them lived to witness. The small armies of Butler, McClellan, and Patterson having already fought the enemy, the North could not understand the inactivity of the much larger forces assembled at Washington under e which were dictated either by political influence or personal favor; and among the first major-generals appointed by Mr. Lincoln we find two— Messrs. Banks and Butler—who are the two types of the class then styled political generals: Banks, a former workingman of Massachusetts, who through his intelligence had attained the highrd hesitations, and who did not always succeed in staving off, by his great personal courage, the disastrous results of enterprises he had imprudently undertaken; Butler, a shrewd lawyer, a bold politician, without scruples, who had rendered a great service to his country by taking upon himself the responsibility of occupying Balt
Comte de Paris, History of the Civil War in America. Vol. 1. (ed. Henry Coppee , LL.D.), Book IV:—the first autumn. (search)
These vessels were to be joined by the frigate Susquehanna and the sailing sloopof-war Cumberland. At the same time, General Butler, who had been superseded by General Wool, but who still retained command of the forces encamped at Newport News, emba without carriages, and two strong works, were surrendered to the Federals by the capitulation, signed a few days after. Butler and Stringham, appreciating the importance of their conquest, determined not to abandon it. The small garrisons which therts they had captured on the 30th of August, had sent the Twentieth Indiana regiment to reinforce the small garrison that Butler had left there. Nor did they stop there, for they had only taken possession of an entrance into the inland sea, into whirophies, while the Federals hastened back to Fort Hatteras. The success obtained in the month of August by Stringham and Butler had demonstrated to the Federal government all the advantages to be derived from such expeditions; it accordingly determi