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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)
to collect, as I have already stated, something over half a million dollars, over a quarter of a million of which I turned over to my successor. Some of the advantages of having this money at my disposal will be appreciated when I say that in July, 1864, the treasury being very empty so that we could not get money with which to pay our sick and wounded soldiers in the hospital so that they could go home, I loaned $49,000 to the paymaster to pay them so that they might go, and he paid the moneyl winner of the America's cup and blockade runner during the War. to sustain me in that opinion, but, I regret, not all of it, because the correspondence between the higher officers of the army has not been published down to a later date than July, 1864, and I was relieved on the 8th of January, 1865. By good fortune I got from a private source a letter See Appendix No. 82. written by Halleck, which led me to the opinion above mentioned. This letter was written at the time that Halleck's
Benjamnin F. Butler, Butler's Book: Autobiography and Personal Reminiscences of Major-General Benjamin Butler, Appendix. (search)
tely this change of purpose did not take place until the numbers and morale of the troops had been so far reduced that the flanking movements became, in the main, ineffectual from the want of vigor in attack, at the critical moments, when a little of the fire which had been exhibited in the great assaults of May would have sufficed to crown a well-conceived enterprise with a glorious victory. But that fire had for the time burned itself out; and on more than one occasion during the months of July and August, 1864, the troops of the Army of the Potomac, after an all-day or all-night march which had placed them in a position of advantage, failed to show a trace of that enthusiasm and élan which characterized the earlier days of the campaign. This result was not due to moral causes only. Physically the troops were dead-beat, from the exertions and privations of the preceding two months. [no. 82. see page 715.] [Private.] Headquarters of Tie Army, Washington, July 3, 1864. Lieut.-Gen