Autobiography and personal reminiscences of Major-General BenjFButler : Butler's book : a review of his legal, political, and military career . ot liquor surreptitiously? The lieutenant-general could havecommanded all the whiskey of the United States to his army if he ,thought proper, and it would have come. If he had let it be knownthat he would use it, his admiring friends all over the North andWest would have sent him the choicest brands in the most boundlessprofusion. A man that would write such a postcript as that, it ishard to describe. 714 BUTLERS BOOK. Let us examine a moment to see-wh
Autobiography and personal reminiscences of Major-General BenjFButler : Butler's book : a review of his legal, political, and military career . ot liquor surreptitiously? The lieutenant-general could havecommanded all the whiskey of the United States to his army if he ,thought proper, and it would have come. If he had let it be knownthat he would use it, his admiring friends all over the North andWest would have sent him the choicest brands in the most boundlessprofusion. A man that would write such a postcript as that, it ishard to describe. 714 BUTLERS BOOK. Let us examine a moment to see-what kind of a creature thisSmith is. Appointed a brigadier and promoted a major-general bythe influence of his intimate friend, McClellan, when, as ive haveseen, he was seekhig to he dictator, for some service unexpressed,yet by its wages only to be guessed, he was rejected by the 1863, for his conduct in battle, he was relieved from his commandby General Burnside, then in command of the Army of the Potomac,and went to the Southern army. He ingratiated himself withGrant by his topographical performances in matters which resulted. IIeadquakteks of Gen. Alfred Terry before Richmond, in the difficulty between Generals Thomas and Grant, which lasteduntil after the battle of Nashville, in September, 1864. Grant, inSeptember, 1863, again recommended Smiths promotion to thePresident, but his name was not sent in till March, 1864. AfterGrant was put in command as general-in-chief in the spring of 1864,he once more took him up and had him again appointed major-general. The Senate delayed confirming liis appointment, butGrant, by his great influence, i)rocured his confirmation. Hedetailed him in command of a corps under myself, and sustained BUTLERS BOOK. 715 Smitli in all his insubordinations, taking him with his corps of morethan twenty-thousand men to Cold Harbor where Smith lost nearlya quarter of the troops, for which he criticised Grant, as he con-fesses. This detail Grant
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