Autobiography and personal reminiscences of Major-General BenjFButler : Butler's book : a review of his legal, political, and military career . ^ the secession newspapers that I am to he relieved ofthis command. If that be so, might I ask that my successor he sent asearly as possible, as my own health is not the strongest, and it would seembut fair that he should take some part in the yellow-fever season. »The title, Provost Judge, describes an oftioer of a generals staff appointed hy luni to investi-gate and decide all complaints and other matters which tlie general would be called upon
Autobiography and personal reminiscences of Major-General BenjFButler : Butler's book : a review of his legal, political, and military career . ^ the secession newspapers that I am to he relieved ofthis command. If that be so, might I ask that my successor he sent asearly as possible, as my own health is not the strongest, and it would seembut fair that he should take some part in the yellow-fever season. »The title, Provost Judge, describes an oftioer of a generals staff appointed hy luni to investi-gate and decide all complaints and other matters which tlie general would be called upon He gets his title from tlie old Norman French jwovostre, for yourself, i. e., insteadof the general. BUTLERS BOOK. 627 \»u \, WW o p - o ^ ^ ?-! ~ w « c ^ ^ q^ A t ^ z. v ?3 c 7 > o ; z ro o O •-1 ^ o S r re_3 •r:- ra r^ kH -1 . .. BUTLERS BOOK. 529 To this letter I received the following reply: — Washington, D. C, Sept. 14, Benjamin F. Butler, New Orleans : Ge7ieral:—1 have the lienor to acknowledge the receipt of yourreport of the 1st instant. The rumor in regard to your removal from the command is a merenewspaper stoiy, without foundation. Probably someone who wished thechanges proposed made the publication as a feeler of public sentiment. . H. W. Halleck, General-in- Chief. About the time I received this information, the secessionists attheir clubs in New Orleans were • betting, a hundred dollars to ten,that I should be very shortly relieved and Banks sent in my French inhabitants declared they knew I was to be removed atthe request of the French government. Strengthened by the assurances of Halleck, the commander-in-chief, I went on with my business. I was then planning an expe-dition against Port Hudson, and arranging so that my troops shouldbe in readiness for it as soon
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