. Autobiography and personal reminiscences of Major-General Benj. F. Butler; Butler's book . to leaveher profession, however, until I had won my spurs in my own profession, and had become provided with the means of making a home for both. But a most cordial and affectionate intimacy was maintained between us. In the spring of 1843, I visited her at Cincinnati, Ohio, where she had been welcomed and honored as a star. There we became engaged. We were married on the 16th of May, 1844, at St. Annes Church in Lowell, by the Rev. Dr. Edson, its Rector. We made our home at Lowell from that time until
. Autobiography and personal reminiscences of Major-General Benj. F. Butler; Butler's book . to leaveher profession, however, until I had won my spurs in my own profession, and had become provided with the means of making a home for both. But a most cordial and affectionate intimacy was maintained between us. In the spring of 1843, I visited her at Cincinnati, Ohio, where she had been welcomed and honored as a star. There we became engaged. We were married on the 16th of May, 1844, at St. Annes Church in Lowell, by the Rev. Dr. Edson, its Rector. We made our home at Lowell from that time until her very sad and un-timely death in 18 T 7. There were born to us four children: Paul, the eldest, who died in April, 1850, at the age of four years and ten months; a daughter, Blanche, born in 1847, and a son, Paul, born in 1852, both still living; and a son, Ben Israel, born in 1854, who departed this life on the first day of September, 1881, the day he was to have gone into partnership with me in Benj r ]u_tikk ]x ^h* the practice of the law in Boston. Engraved from a 80 BUTLERS BOOK. Ben Israel was appointed to West Point when I was in had already made three appointments, two of the young menfailing to complete the course, and one, a colored lad, not beingallowed to enter. The young cadet graduated with honor, and wasdirected by his father to accept a lieutenantcy in a regiment of col-ored troops which was stationed on the Plains, that he might have,in addition to his instruction at the academy, the knowledge of themovement and care of troops in actual service. In this onerouswork of defending the scattered population on our frontier fromIndian raids, he served one year. The reason for this selection was that I believed then, as I believenow, that this country is to have a war in each generation. Everypreceding generation in this country had had its war, and in themost important of all his father had taken an active part. Thecolonies had, in 1758
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