Stormy Petrel: The Life and Times of General Benjamin F. Butler, 1818-1893Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 1969 - 335 pages |
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Page 107
... asked first if citizens of Virginia who wanted to go north would be allowed to pass through the blockade . Butler answered , with irrefutable logic that one of the reasons for the blockade was " to prevent the admission of supplies and ...
... asked first if citizens of Virginia who wanted to go north would be allowed to pass through the blockade . Butler answered , with irrefutable logic that one of the reasons for the blockade was " to prevent the admission of supplies and ...
Page 115
... asked : " Are these men , women and children slaves ? Are they free ? Is their condition that of men , women and children , or of property , or is it a mixed relation ? " He knew , as he thought everybody did , that they had been ...
... asked : " Are these men , women and children slaves ? Are they free ? Is their condition that of men , women and children , or of property , or is it a mixed relation ? " He knew , as he thought everybody did , that they had been ...
Page 239
... asked for 40 days to prepare their case . " Forty days ! As long as it took God Almighty to destroy the world , " Butler shouted . One of the President's counsel protested that railroad speed ought not to be used . Butler asked : " Why ...
... asked for 40 days to prepare their case . " Forty days ! As long as it took God Almighty to destroy the world , " Butler shouted . One of the President's counsel protested that railroad speed ought not to be used . Butler asked : " Why ...
Contents
Meet General Butler | 13 |
As the Twig is Bent | 20 |
A Practical Politician | 37 |
Copyright | |
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