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Benjamnin F. Butler, Butler's Book: Autobiography and Personal Reminiscences of Major-General Benjamin Butler, Chapter 7: recruiting in New England. (search)
d, July 18, Rebellion Record, Part X., page 339:-- On the morning of the 18th, finding that the enemy was assuming a threatening attitude, in addition to the regiments whose positions have already been stated, I ordered up from Camp Pickens (Manassas), as a reserve, in rear of Bonham's brigade, the effective men of six companies of Kelly's Eighth Regiment Louisiana Volunteers, and Kirkland's Eleventh Regiment North Carolina Volunteers, which, having arrived the night before en route for Winchester, I had halted in view of the existing necessities of the service. With any considerable force at Camp Pickens (Manassas), would this regiment either have been stopped en route, or the effective men of six companies only ordered up as a reserve? In his report of Bull Run, July 21, Beauregard also speaks of the intrenched batteries at Manassas being under the command of Colonel Terret. Is it possible that the rebels have been able to more than quadruple their forces in the last six