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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)
opposed, it would be impossible to make use of that, and it would be a march of some thirty odd miles from Annapolis to Washington. The Philadelphia, Wilmington & Baltimore Railroad could send me to Perryville, on the northerly side of the Susquehanna River, opposite Havre de Grace, and the march from Havre de Grace was but a little longer than that from Annapolis. My regiment could be ferried across the Susquehanna on the steamer Maryland, the railroad ferry-boat between Perryville and Havreulty of getting up the Potomac, and the ease with which war vessels could be prevented from ascending the river, was one of the protections of Washington. Great numbers of troops, concluded Major L'Enfant, could readily be brought down the Susquehanna River, and landed anywhere upon its banks or in the bays, and so march to protect Washington. I had read those pamphlets in earlier days, and now that I saw our means of access by railroad in the hands of hostile States, I was at once put in m