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Benjamnin F. Butler, Butler's Book: Autobiography and Personal Reminiscences of Major-General Benjamin Butler, Chapter 13: occupations in 1863; exchange of prisoners. (search)
which, up to that time, I had paid little attention. Soon after my return home Hon. Stephen M. Allen, of Massachusetts, called upon me bringing a letter of introduction from the Chairman of the House Committee on the Conduct of the War, the Hon. John Covode, a truer, better, and more patriotic man than whom never lived. We had been, and were to the day of his death, the warmest personal friends. It was he who left his seat at the Capitol and went over to the Treasury and subscribed and paid for the first $50,000 worth of United States bonds that were issued, and when reproached for it by one of his friends, who said: You will never get anything back, Covode, he answered: Well, I can live without it. I said to Mr. Allen: You need no letter of introduction to me. You and I have been long known to each other, and I recognize you as President of the First Republican Convention of Massachusetts. He then said that he was sent to me by the Committee on the Conduct of the War to con
Benjamnin F. Butler, Butler's Book: Autobiography and Personal Reminiscences of Major-General Benjamin Butler, Index. (search)
Point appointment, 57; presides at Charleston Convention, 134; presides at Baltimore Convention, 144; in Mexican War, 303; refused army appointment by Andrew, 308; opinion regarding Trent affair, 318. Cushing, Lieut. J. W., on Butler's staff, 896. cook, Jay, on the national debt, 935; on bank taxes, 944. Corwine, meddles in Farragut prize case, 1010. Constitution, The Ship, at Annapolis, 192-193. Courier, The Boston, 895. Courier, The Lowell, attacked by, 107-108. Covode, Hon., John, anecdote of, 580. D Dana, Hon. Charles A., Assistant Secretary of War, 687, 831; offers to pay Badeau's claim against Mr. Grant, 860. Dana, Richard H., Jr., Butler's opponent in congressional campaign, 921; speech in Lynn, 921-922; Butler's reply, 922; defeated, 922. Danville Railroad, cut, 651. Davenport, Lieut. John I., reports Smith's movements, 687,690; reports of, 701; on Butler's staff, 900. Davis, Jefferson, vote for, in Charleston Convention explained, 138,