Autobiography and personal reminiscences of Major-General BenjFButler : Butler's book : a review of his legal, political, and military career . of General Jackson,for whom he entertained the highest respect and admiration. Hence, having a sonborn on the 13 th ofFebruary, 1815, henamed him AndrewJackson. The war beingpractically ended,as the battle of NewOrleans was foughtafter the treaty ofpeace had beenagreed upon, myfather turned hisattention to mercan-tile voyages, goingseveral trips to tlieWest Indies andSpanish Islands onthe coast of SouthAmerica. Whileso eno-asfed he tookletters of marqu
Autobiography and personal reminiscences of Major-General BenjFButler : Butler's book : a review of his legal, political, and military career . of General Jackson,for whom he entertained the highest respect and admiration. Hence, having a sonborn on the 13 th ofFebruary, 1815, henamed him AndrewJackson. The war beingpractically ended,as the battle of NewOrleans was foughtafter the treaty ofpeace had beenagreed upon, myfather turned hisattention to mercan-tile voyages, goingseveral trips to tlieWest Indies andSpanish Islands onthe coast of SouthAmerica. Whileso eno-asfed he tookletters of marqueunder Bolivar, andwith his vesselformed a part of Bolivars expedition. When Bolivar crossed theCordilleras, my father returned to the West India Islands and,in order to refit, landed at the Island of St. Christopher (St. Kitts),one of the British Islands. While there he died of the yellowfever, el vomito. So did some portion of his crew and one ofhis officers, I believe his first officer. That pestilence and itsterrible results was among the first diseases of which I rememberever to have learned from my suffering mother. I mention this. (jopynghieil. Capt. John Butlek, Wak of 1812, Father of Benj. F. from an Oil Painting. BUTLERS BOOK. 43 because it made so indelible an impression on my memory that itimpelled me, when I was older, to investigate that scourge to suchextent as I might, and this investigation had some effect uponmy conduct of affairs in later life. My fathers services on the South American coast, under a com-mission from the head of a republic not then having fully achieved itsindependence, were of much the same kind that Paul Jones renderedfor our Revolutionary fathers on the coast of Scotland under likecircumstances. A few evil disposed persons, I have heard, havedenounced my fathers acts as piracy. The man has never livedwho suggested that to me, and I never saw it in print but underthe following circumstances: — After I returned from New Orl
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