Stormy Petrel: The Life and Times of General Benjamin F. Butler, 1818-1893Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 1969 - 335 pages |
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... land and brings the savage here and Christianizes him , and sends him down to posterity a happy man . ” By contrast , he declared " that the Virginia slave - trader , who tears a slave family asunder from those ties which cluster around ...
... land and brings the savage here and Christianizes him , and sends him down to posterity a happy man . ” By contrast , he declared " that the Virginia slave - trader , who tears a slave family asunder from those ties which cluster around ...
Page 107
... land ] passage of families desiring to go north be permitted ? " he asked . That , Butler replied , was a question he would have to leave for his superiors in Washington to answer.8 Then , probably never dreaming of anything but ready ...
... land ] passage of families desiring to go north be permitted ? " he asked . That , Butler replied , was a question he would have to leave for his superiors in Washington to answer.8 Then , probably never dreaming of anything but ready ...
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... land . . . . Should such a landing be effected , . . . the troops should intrench themselves , and by co - operating with the Navy effect the reduction and capture of [ Fort Fisher ] .... Should Fort Fisher and the point of land on ...
... land . . . . Should such a landing be effected , . . . the troops should intrench themselves , and by co - operating with the Navy effect the reduction and capture of [ Fort Fisher ] .... Should Fort Fisher and the point of land on ...
Contents
Meet General Butler | 13 |
As the Twig is Bent | 20 |
A Practical Politician | 37 |
Copyright | |
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