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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)
of furnishing this on the same 5th of February. The outfits of these men were prepared with the utmost diligence. The South evidently desired to gain time, as it was not in any readiness to make an attack on Washington on the 4th of March. Floyd, who was Secretary of War under Buchanan, aided to make ready the Southern States, by ordering large quantities of arms to be sent South, both small arms and ordnance, and this was continued up to the time he left his office, on the 4th day of March. Many of the Southern senators resigned earlier, but Floyd took care to hold on to his office, so as to be purveyor of military supplies of the United States to the South as long as he could. As a means by which time was gained; the State of Virginia expressed a desire to meet her sister States in convention in Washington. This gathering was commonly called the Peace convention, and it resulted, of course, in nothing but talk (and some of it very foolish talk), and the desired delay
Benjamnin F. Butler, Butler's Book: Autobiography and Personal Reminiscences of Major-General Benjamin Butler, Index. (search)
th Regiment, M. V. M., mention of, 199. Fifteenth Maine Regiment, drawing lots in peril off Hatteras, 344. First Vermont at Fortress Monroe, 252. First Maine Heavy Artillery, conduct of, 291. First Regiment of Native Guards, 496. First Brigade of Massachusetts troops, 890. Fiske, General, services on Frying-Pan Shoals, 339-340. five Forks, The battle of, 901. Flanders, chosen congressman in Louisiana, 523. Flag Pond Hill battery, Porter attempts to silence, 791, Floyd, Secretary of War, under Buchanan, 166-167. Flusser, Commander, tribute to, 635; killed at Plymouth, 636. Fox, Gustavus V., Assistant Secretary of Navy. anecdote of, 287-288; arbitrator in the Farragut prize suit, 1011. Foote, Senator, reference to, 695, 715, 716; calumnious letter from Smith to, 696-697; letter quoted, 712-713. Ford's Theatre, Lincoln assassinated at, 930. Forty-Seventh Regiment of Virginia Volunteers, 679. Fort Burnham (formerly Fort Harrison), 737. Fo