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Benjamnin F. Butler, Butler's Book: Autobiography and Personal Reminiscences of Major-General Benjamin Butler, Chapter 18: why I was relieved from command. (search)
s, that he stole despatches from the office of the general-in-chief in order that Grant might not see them when he came to Washington to take that office. McClellan says :-- McClellan's Own Story, p. 216, et seq. On the morning of Sunday, March 2, 1862, desiring to give orders for the further movements of Buell's and Halleck's commands, I went to the military telegraph office--then in the headquarters of the Army of the Potomac at the corner of Pennsylvania Avenue and Jackson Square — aese disappeared despatches were, and got from him the copies, as they have been hereinbefore set out. Grant gives his version of the matter in his Memoirs as follows:-- unclear>Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant, Vol. I. p. 325. On the 2d of March, 1862] I received orders [from Halleck] dated March 1 to move my command back to Fort Henry, leaving only a small garrison at Donelson. From Fort Henry expeditions were to be sent against Eastport, Mississippi, and Paris, Tennessee. We started f