Stormy Petrel: The Life and Times of General Benjamin F. Butler, 1818-1893Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 1969 - 335 pages |
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Page 118
... Soon after Wool reached Fortress Monroe he detailed Butler to take command of the 860 officers and men assigned to a joint Army - Navy expedition against Forts Clark and Hatteras , located at Hatteras Inlet some 20 miles south of Cape ...
... Soon after Wool reached Fortress Monroe he detailed Butler to take command of the 860 officers and men assigned to a joint Army - Navy expedition against Forts Clark and Hatteras , located at Hatteras Inlet some 20 miles south of Cape ...
Page 140
... soon as Butler heard of what had happened he sent 600 men of the Ninth Connecticut Regiment to the main- land to avenge the insult . They returned " loaded with a whimsi- cal variety of spoil and bubbling over with blatherskite ...
... soon as Butler heard of what had happened he sent 600 men of the Ninth Connecticut Regiment to the main- land to avenge the insult . They returned " loaded with a whimsi- cal variety of spoil and bubbling over with blatherskite ...
Page 171
... soon going to have a new commanding officer . When the story finally broke into print Butler wrote to Halleck , who was now general in chief of the Union Armies : " I learn from the secession newspapers that I am to be relieved of my ...
... soon going to have a new commanding officer . When the story finally broke into print Butler wrote to Halleck , who was now general in chief of the Union Armies : " I learn from the secession newspapers that I am to be relieved of my ...
Contents
Meet General Butler | 13 |
As the Twig is Bent | 20 |
A Practical Politician | 37 |
Copyright | |
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