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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)
assachusetts troops. I supposed that the Articles of War were in force in New York and Annapolis, and known to the New York troops, as they were to the Massachusetts troops. I refer more particularly to the following paragraphs:-- The militia, when called into actual service of the United States for the suppression of rebellion against and resistance to the laws of the United States, shall be subject to the same rules and articles of war as the regular troops of the United States. （Rev. Stats. U. S., Sec. 1644; Feb. 28, 1795.) If, upon marches, guards, or in quarters, different corps of the army happen to join or do duty together, the officer highest in rank of the line of the army, marine corps or militia, by commission, there on duty or in quarters, shall command the whole, and give orders for what is needful to the service, unless otherwise specially directed by the President, according to the nature of the case. Finding this regiment joining me, I supposed it came un