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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) 237 77 Browse Search
HISTORY OF THE TOWN OF MEDFORD, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, FROM ITS FIRST SETTLEMENT, IN 1630, TO THE PRESENT TIME, 1855. (ed. Charles Brooks) 148 0 Browse Search
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Massachusetts in the Army and Navy during the war of 1861-1865, vol. 2 19 19 Browse Search
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Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events, Diary from December 17, 1860 - April 30, 1864 (ed. Frank Moore) 10 4 Browse Search
George P. Rowell and Company's American Newspaper Directory, containing accurate lists of all the newspapers and periodicals published in the United States and territories, and the dominion of Canada, and British Colonies of North America., together with a description of the towns and cities in which they are published. (ed. George P. Rowell and company) 8 0 Browse Search
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 3. (ed. Frank Moore) 8 0 Browse Search
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Henry Walcott Boynton, Reader's History of American Literature 7 7 Browse Search
John D. Billings, Hardtack and Coffee: The Unwritten Story of Army Life 7 1 Browse Search
The Cambridge of eighteen hundred and ninety-six: a picture of the city and its industries fifty years after its incorporation (ed. Arthur Gilman) 7 7 Browse Search
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Benjamnin F. Butler, Butler's Book: Autobiography and Personal Reminiscences of Major-General Benjamin Butler, Chapter 21: practice of the law. (search)
tate prison, the longest term for which the law allowed him to be sentenced. After he was sentenced I stepped back to the dock and said: Carey, you have had a narrow escape; I think you may feel obliged for that point of law. No; I wish I had been sentenced to be hanged. I wish you had let me know your preference a few hours ago, I said, and I would have accommodated you. And that was all the fee I got for trying this case except $2.50 which the law paid to me. That was not all. Cambridge is perhaps twelve miles distant from Lincoln, which is a nice little town, at that time not having a doctor, a pauper, or a lawyer in it. The constable, I believe, had also been tax collector and held several other local offices, for he was one of the most popular of their townsmen. The people of the town had many of them turned out to see his murderer convicted, and their disgust was infinite when they saw his fast friend of years, and a man who had attended his funeral, earnestly and ze
Benjamnin F. Butler, Butler's Book: Autobiography and Personal Reminiscences of Major-General Benjamin Butler, Appendix. (search)
ten thousand or twenty thousand men to Westover and Lee know nothing of it. What, then, is to become of Petersburg? Its loss surely involves that of Richmond,--perhaps of the Confederacy. An earnest appeal is called for now, else a terrible disaster may, and I think will, befall us. Very respectfully, D. H. Hill, Major-General and Aide-de-Camp. [no. 71. see page 692.] Jackson, N. H., July 8, 1891. Gen. B. F. Butler : Dear Sir:--Your letter of the 25th ultimo addressed to me at Cambridge has followed me to this place where I am invalided for the summer, my physicians having advised me that I must seek recuperation in a change of climate, as my health was so much shattered that they could do nothing to help me but to recommend such a change. I have no records or reports available here to which to refer, and therefore can only reply to the suggestions contained in Mr. Campbell's communication, herewith returned, from memory. It seems to me to have been of little conseque