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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)
When I took command, I found these examinations made by soldiers taken from the ranks to do it, so that their services were lost to the army. I sent back the soldiers and employed civilians as clerks to examine these invoices, for they were legion, and put a charge of one per cent. to pay the clerks and other necessary expenses, such as providing for sick soldiers, and spent $6,000 of the fund to buy vaccinating matter for our soldiers in rebel prisons, and matters of like kind. Norfolk, Hampden, and Yorktown were the points at which the importations and examinations were made. Again, Congress passed a law allowing the recruiting of soldiers for the loyal States in my department. The result was that a herd of recruiting agents came down there to take away all my able-bodied blacks, to be credited as soldiers to their States, leaving the women and children to be taken care of by the United States. Now, when recruiting was done in the several States, care was taken of the famil
Benjamnin F. Butler, Butler's Book: Autobiography and Personal Reminiscences of Major-General Benjamin Butler, Index. (search)
s Butler's administration of affairs to be examined, 832; untruthful letter from, 871; denounced, 871-872; his perfidious treatment of Grant, 872, 875; of Sherman, 876-877; quarrel with Banks, 877; with Rosecrans, 877; lies about Butler, 877; his motive, 877-878; his position with Lincoln, 879; sent to violate a truce, 909; reference to, 913. Hallett, B. F., delegate to constitutional convention, 118. Half Moon, Porter attempts to silence battery,791. Hamlin, reference to, 634. Hampden, speculation trade carried on, 843. Hampton, Wade, in Lacy's letter, 881; Lee's conversation in regard to Mahone, 884, 886. Hampton Roads, fleet in, 774-775; reference 786; Lincoln meets Confederate commissioners at, 902. Hampton, colored infantry and artillery at, 638. Hamilton, Col. Schuyler, volunteers as aid on Butler's staff, 201; sent to Washington, 206; letter from, 226. Hancock, General, reference to, 645, 651, 652, 686, 712, 715; joins in expedition against Petersbur