Stormy Petrel: The Life and Times of General Benjamin F. Butler, 1818-1893Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 1969 - 335 pages |
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... returned 23 years and a few weeks later to learn that Butler had just been elected governor of Massachusetts . 22 Quoted in T. A. Bland , Life of Benjamin F. Butler ( Lee and Shep- ard [ Boston , 1879 ] ) , p . 25 . 4 The Democratic ...
... returned 23 years and a few weeks later to learn that Butler had just been elected governor of Massachusetts . 22 Quoted in T. A. Bland , Life of Benjamin F. Butler ( Lee and Shep- ard [ Boston , 1879 ] ) , p . 25 . 4 The Democratic ...
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... returned to Federal Hill to get some sleep for the first time in nearly 40 hours . Having been frequently disturbed during the night he rose on May 15 but little refreshed . At 8:30 A.M. , not long after he finished breakfast , he ...
... returned to Federal Hill to get some sleep for the first time in nearly 40 hours . Having been frequently disturbed during the night he rose on May 15 but little refreshed . At 8:30 A.M. , not long after he finished breakfast , he ...
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... returned " loaded with a whimsi- cal variety of spoil and bubbling over with blatherskite . . . . They had landed , marched six miles into the country and broken up a camp of militia . . . . The enemy had fired two rounds without ...
... returned " loaded with a whimsi- cal variety of spoil and bubbling over with blatherskite . . . . They had landed , marched six miles into the country and broken up a camp of militia . . . . The enemy had fired two rounds without ...
Contents
Meet General Butler | 13 |
As the Twig is Bent | 20 |
A Practical Politician | 37 |
Copyright | |
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