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Benjamnin F. Butler, Butler's Book: Autobiography and Personal Reminiscences of Major-General Benjamin Butler, Chapter 1: lineage and education. (search)
life. A consultation was held by all those who had a right to be consulted, and it was decided that I should be sent to Exeter to be fitted for college, with the hope that a free scholarship might be found for me. I continued my studies, and late in the following autumn I went to Exeter. Here I commenced the study of Latin, and soon afterwards that of Greek. I must say, truthfully, that my learning at Exeter did not amount to much. To be sure, I acquired the Latin grammar with a certainty oExeter did not amount to much. To be sure, I acquired the Latin grammar with a certainty of memory that was excelled only by my uncertainty as to the meanings of the rules it contained. My learning was nothing but memorizing. It was the same in the study of Greek. I was far too young to appreciate the beauties of the Iliad, but I was rergyman, who had befriended my mother, built a house in Lowell for her to occupy, and by his advice I came to Lowell from Exeter at the end of the winter term in 1828, and studied my Latin at home during the spring and summer. Seth Ames, afterwards
Benjamnin F. Butler, Butler's Book: Autobiography and Personal Reminiscences of Major-General Benjamin Butler, Index. (search)
th, 962, 967. Erith, England, powder explosion at, 775-776. Essex (Mass.) district, Hon. John B. Alley, member of Congress from, 919; succeeded by Butler, 919-920. Esterbrook, Lieut. James E., in Butler's staff, 896. Europe, Butler reads histories of, 868; General Grant in, 874. Evarts, counsel for President Johnson, 929-930. Everett's battery, 460-461. Everett, Captain, reconnoitres in rear of Fort St. Philip, 363. Everett, Professor, treatise on yellow fever,399. Exeter, Butler to school at, 51-52. F Fairbanks, Governor, Vermont, aids in recruiting, 300. Farmer, Captain, anecdote of 232. Farnham, Butler's tutor at Waterville, 66-69. Farragut, Admiral David G.? gets coal from Butler at Ship Island, 354-355; disbelief in efficacy of Porter's bombardment, 358, 362; plan of operations against New Orleans, 359; his passage by the forts, 364, 367; his capture of New Orleans, 370; spared Confederate gunboat McRae, 390; insulted by New Orleans women,