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Benjamnin F. Butler, Butler's Book: Autobiography and Personal Reminiscences of Major-General Benjamin Butler, Chapter 6: contraband of War, Big Bethel and Hatteras. (search)
rieved at all; that I would beat Scott at his own game, as indeed I was already prepared to do; that he had sent Wool down without any instructions; that Wool could not go anywhere or do anything; that Wool did not like Scott any better than Scott did me; that Wool wanted all the work done by some one else while he had a nice place in the camp, and I wanted to do all the work I could do and have somebody else take the responsibility. I had been watching the building of Fort Hatteras and Fort Clark. I had had some loyal North Carolinians for many weeks in the forts at work, and I proposed, as soon as I could, to take the forts, for they were very important. But it would be of no more use for me to ask Scott for any troops with which to do it than it would be to attempt to fly. No, he would not even let me take the troops I had or any part of them. Therefore, as soon as General Wool got fairly in his saddle, I explained to him these matters about the forts at Hatteras, and the gr
Benjamnin F. Butler, Butler's Book: Autobiography and Personal Reminiscences of Major-General Benjamin Butler, chapter 24 (search)
ter, without orders from anybody having a technical military education, of my own motion, I seized and strongly fortified the important strategic point of Newport News, at the mouth of the James River, which was held during the war, thus keeping open a water-way for the transportation of troops and supplies to the intrenchments around Richmond, and by which the Army of the Potomac under McClellan escaped from Harrison's Landing. In co-operation with the navy I captured Fort Hatteras and Fort Clark, thus making the holding of the sounds of Virginia and North and South Carolina practicable. I raised a division of more than six thousand men for the United States without payment of bounties or impressment. With the division thus raised, aided by an equal number of troops added to that force, co-operating with the fleet of the immortal Farragut to his entire satisfaction, we opened the Mississippi River, captured New Orleans, subdued Louisiana, and held all of it that was ever afterw