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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)
ver, commit any outrages upon private property in a loyal and friendly State. But fearing that some improper person may have by stealth introduced himself among us, I deem it proper to state that any unauthorized interference with private property will be most signally punished, and full reparation therefor made to the injured party, to the full extent of my power and ability. In so doing, I but carry out the orders of the War Department. I should have done so without those orders. Colonel Monroe will cause these orders to be read at the head of each company before we march. Colonel Lefferts' command not having been originally included in this order, he will be furnished with a copy for his instruction. Colonel Lefferts reported to me at my headquarters on the grounds of the academy. As the steamer Maryland was hard and fast, and could not be floated until she was relieved of her troops, I asked him to allow the Boston to land the Seventh Regiment at the grounds of the Nava
Benjamnin F. Butler, Butler's Book: Autobiography and Personal Reminiscences of Major-General Benjamin Butler, Chapter 5: Baltimore and Fortress Monroe. (search)
. The fort required for a full war garrison twenty-five hundred men and for an ordinary garrison fifteen hundred. There was neither a well nor a spring in the fort, nor any on the point of land on which the fort was situated. The only water supply which the garrison had was the rain-water caught on the ramparts which drained into cisterns. With four hundred men in a garrison the year before, the water had failed entirely. The fort had been in this condition ever since the days of President Monroe, when work was first begun upon it. True, an artesian well had been sunk about four hundred feet, many years before I got there; but not a drop of water was obtained. The appropriation for the work became exhausted, and no appropriation on water was afterwards obtained. The fort was surrounded by a moat one hundred feet wide, which had been dug and walled, and was constructed to hold six feet of water at the tide level, the water being detained therein by proper gates. This provisi
Benjamnin F. Butler, Butler's Book: Autobiography and Personal Reminiscences of Major-General Benjamin Butler, Index. (search)
Mexican War, Grant in, 868. Michie, Maj. Peter S., directs work at Dutch Gap, 747. Military Training, Butler's, 123,125. Military Commission defined, 842-843; Butler suggests that Davis be tried by, 916-918. Milligan vs., United States, the case of, 1007-1009. Miller, Capt. Morris J., romancing note from, 194; quartermaster at Annapolis, his romance and relief, 196. Missouri Compromise, 130-131. Mobile Harbor entered by blockade runners, 849. Moise, Judge, 397. Monroe, Major, of New Orleans, 437-438. Moore, Gov. Thomas O., of Louisiana, 385; letter from Lovell to, 397; letter to Davis, 477; reference to, 430-431. Moore, Peter, the case of, 986-987. Morgan, Senator of New York, 362. Morris, Major, at Fort McHenry, 231-232. Mount Benedict, destruction of Ursuline Convent on, 110-123. Mulford, Colonel, assistant agent for exchange of prisoners, 586, 588, 589, 597, 606, 608, 609. Mumford pulls down flag at New Orleans, 370, 376; arrest, tri