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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)
f the noblest of God's noblemen, and the other was Col. Schuyler Hamilton, who had been in the service of the United States tary to General Scott while in Mexico. Both Winthrop and Hamilton were, then acting as privates in the New York Seventh, an the time only which the Seventh had agreed to go to war. Hamilton was accepted by me as a volunteer aid on my staff, and I d I think he got up to about No. 4. I consulted with Colonel Hamilton about them, and he said:-- Don't obey them; he has the way was open between Annapolis and Washington, I put Hamilton on board the very first train to go to General Scott and ormances, and show him the orders. It took some time for Hamilton to get through, for he had other business, and meantime Gas a chain of new molten gold. While I was waiting for Hamilton to return, Lieutenant-Colonel Keyes, who didn't seem to h, I seemed always in Keyes' keeping. Late at night Colonel Hamilton reported from General Scott what he had been sent to