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Benjamnin F. Butler, Butler's Book: Autobiography and Personal Reminiscences of Major-General Benjamin Butler, Chapter 13: occupations in 1863; exchange of prisoners. (search)
all the disposable troops that the East, and West, and North can furnish. . . . I would also urgently recommend that the whole of the regular army, old and new, be at once ordered to report here, excepting the mounted batteries actually serving in other departments and the minimum numbers of companies of artillery actually necessary to form the nucleus of the garrisons of our most important permanent works. There should be no delay in carrying out this measure. McClellan's letter, Sept. 8, 1861. His story, page The regular troops of all countries are always relied upon by those who seek to become dictators and tyrants to enslave the people. It is incredible that McClellan could have published his treasonable utterances. Although they are private letters, his family has made them the property of the historian. What a spectacle! A young man not only receiving many letters — that he could not help — but having a great many conversations with those who were urging him t