Stormy Petrel: The Life and Times of General Benjamin F. Butler, 1818-1893Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 1969 - 335 pages |
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... officer of the militia at his own peril . The Governor promptly threatened to discharge Butler . The latter wrote to the Governor saying that an officer could not be discharged until a court - martial had found him guilty of a military ...
... officer of the militia at his own peril . The Governor promptly threatened to discharge Butler . The latter wrote to the Governor saying that an officer could not be discharged until a court - martial had found him guilty of a military ...
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... officer's orders . Looting was forbidden under the strictest penalties ; and nobody , enlisted man or officer , was to absent himself from his outfit without arms or alone on any pretext whatsoever . Commanding officers of compa- 2 ...
... officer's orders . Looting was forbidden under the strictest penalties ; and nobody , enlisted man or officer , was to absent himself from his outfit without arms or alone on any pretext whatsoever . Commanding officers of compa- 2 ...
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... officer as they walked past her house . Occasionally , though amazingly rarely , such actions provoked verbal retaliation . Once , as a woman ostentatiously prepared to leave an omnibus an officer had just boarded he said to her , " Sit ...
... officer as they walked past her house . Occasionally , though amazingly rarely , such actions provoked verbal retaliation . Once , as a woman ostentatiously prepared to leave an omnibus an officer had just boarded he said to her , " Sit ...
Contents
Meet General Butler | 13 |
As the Twig is Bent | 20 |
A Practical Politician | 37 |
Copyright | |
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