Autobiography and personal reminiscences of Major-General BenjFButler : Butler's book : a review of his legal, political, and military career . e marched under guard to Deep sent for my headquarters guard, however, and my belongings at myheadquarters at Bermuda Hundred, and took possession of a beauti-ful grove in which the house of a planter named Cox was situatedThis house and its outbuildings I turned over to my guards andattendants. I had headquarters built of logs for the occupation ofmyself and staff, because I would rather have a fresh log house forthat purpose than a planters
Autobiography and personal reminiscences of Major-General BenjFButler : Butler's book : a review of his legal, political, and military career . e marched under guard to Deep sent for my headquarters guard, however, and my belongings at myheadquarters at Bermuda Hundred, and took possession of a beauti-ful grove in which the house of a planter named Cox was situatedThis house and its outbuildings I turned over to my guards andattendants. I had headquarters built of logs for the occupation ofmyself and staff, because I would rather have a fresh log house forthat purpose than a planters deserted house, which, from my ex-perience, I found sometimes too thickly [)opulated to be headquarters Avere never abandoned until Richmond was taken. Except for the unfortunate accident of General Ords disability,this whole movement was most successful, but not all we had hopedfor, and it was cliaracterized by General Grant as one of the bestthings of the kind done in the war. In a book publislied by A. A. Humphreys, GeneralMeades chief of staff, pui-porting to be a history of the movements BUTLERS BOOK. 739. BUTLERS BOOK. 741 from the Rapidan, this movement is narrated, and although it wascarried on in obedience to my express orders and under my ownpersonal superintendence and command, he forgets to mention thatI was there at all or had anything to do with it, simply because hewas, and I was not, a captain in the regular army. I hope what Isay may not give too great a sale to his book, which can be boughtanywhere for a dollar. In the attack on Newmarket Heights by my column of coloredtroops I violated for the first time a rule of my own military admit that as generals go I was not fit to be a general, in that Inever did, nay, never could, order a movement of troops to be madewithout carefully stopping to count the loss I was likely to make ofmen in doing it, however successful it might prove. Nor did Iever forget the still more. important
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