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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)
difficult to provide suitable cars, the weather being cold, sufficient to transport the regiment. It was then about nine hundred strong, and it was to have another company added to it when we reached Springfield,--that of Capt. Henry S. Briggs. We left Boston at six o'clock, and were received everywhere on the route with loud plaudits, cheers, and the blessings of all the good people. We arrived at Springfield somewhere between nine and ten o'clock, where Captain Briggs' company, from Pittsfield, joined us. Here we were welcomed in the most friendly manner, and here, too, an incident occurred which gave me personally very much pleasure. My old colleague in the Charleston convention, Mr. Chapin, the president of the Boston & Albany Railroad, a firm old Democrat, met me with great cordiality, thanking me for what I was doing, and offering to provide every facility for our transportation to New York. I remember he apologized to me for not having a sleeping-car at his disposal in wh
Benjamnin F. Butler, Butler's Book: Autobiography and Personal Reminiscences of Major-General Benjamin Butler, Chapter 7: recruiting in New England. (search)
event pay State aid to all the soldiers who fought the battles of their country in her ranks, independent of any personal spite of her governor, who had the good quality of cultivating malignity as a parlor plant, I started a recruiting camp at Pittsfield in the western part of the State. It was under Lieutenant-Colonel Whelden, a good Democrat, and in a remarkably short time he put the camp into the finest possible order. I went up to review the regiment, and found it a very considerable one.r that my soldiers should not be discouraged on account of their wives and children, I published a letter, in which I guaranteed State aid to the families of every one of my recruits. This letter was in the following words:-- camp Seward, Pittsfield, Tuesday, Jan. 7, 1862. Lieut.-Col. Whelden, Commanding Western Bay Regiment: Colonel:--I have been much gratified with the appearance, discipline, and proficiency of your regiment, as evidenced by the inspection of to-day. Of the order, qu