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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)
as that of his subordinates? In no other case is he obliged to call a council of war to advise him what to do, and the commission is only a council of war. He can and ought to act on his own responsibility when the lives of thousands are in the balance; why not in punishing a rascal who has crept into the army? This matter is not well understood. In the acts of Congress military commissions and courts-martial are associated, and no discrimination is made as to their powers and duties. Andre is supposed by some historians to have been hung by order of a court-martial. That is erroneous. He was tried by a military commission, upon which was Lafayette. The commission recommended to Washington that he should be hanged, and Washington issued the order to that effect. The commission only ascertained the facts for Washington to act upon. I did not trouble military commissions much, except where there were many controverted facts. I have said I accounted for and turned over, wh
Benjamnin F. Butler, Butler's Book: Autobiography and Personal Reminiscences of Major-General Benjamin Butler, Chapter 19: observations upon matters connected with the War. (search)
the President as commander-in-chief might call a military commission in due form to advise him what should be done in regard to the offences of Mr. Davis against the Constitution and laws both civil and military. That commission should be composed of five, seven, or nine, of the major-generals in the army, to be selected by the President, to pass upon the facts and give him advice as to what he should do. This is all that a military commission can do, and is what was done in the case of Major Andre, a captured prisoner of war in the Revolution, the commission in his case being headed by General Lafayette. And as to the conduct of such a commission on the trial, I supposed that the fact of my being the senior major-general of the army might put me at the head of it. If so, I should conduct it substantially in this way: Charges should be preferred against Mr. Davis, of committing treason in carrying on war against the United States in the district of Virginia, and the overt acts alle
Benjamnin F. Butler, Butler's Book: Autobiography and Personal Reminiscences of Major-General Benjamin Butler, Index. (search)
n Emigrant Aid Society, suit against, 992-995. Ames, Brig.-General, reference to, 651, 690, 816; despatch to, 652; in Roanoke expedition, 781; reference to, 862. Ames, Adelbert, son-in-law, 81; stationed at Perryville, 211. Ames, Butler, grandson, 81. Ames, Seth, studied Latin with, 52. Anderson's Corps, first to reinforce Petersburg, 703. Andersonville, great loss of life in prison, 609, 610; lack of water at, 611. Andover, Mass., President Pierce's son killed, 1020. Andre, tried by military commission, 843, 916. Andrew, Gov. John A., interview on war, 161-162; action by, to have Massachusetts troops in readiness, 162, 163,165, 166; details Butler as brigade commander, 171-173; notified of attack on Sixth Regiment, 175; notified of march from Philadelphia, 183, 184; reprimands Butler and is answered, 211, 216, 261; hostility of, expected, 298; pleasant and unpleasant interviews with, 305, 306, 307, 308; a one idea'd abolitionist, 318; has Butler's appointme