The Fulham genealogy; with index of names and blanks for records . I am needed again. I wentto New York City for the practice of my pro-fession, and closely watched the military career ofBenjamin F. Butler, whose generalship continuedto show the same qualities exhibited in ditch-digging at Vicksburg. I noted his assuming thecommand of an expedition designed by his superiorto be led by Gen. Weitzel, against Fort Fisher,where he thought glory awaited him; his attemptto demolish the fort by blowing up a powder boaton the shore opposite, as effective as would havebeen the discharge of fire-cracker
The Fulham genealogy; with index of names and blanks for records . I am needed again. I wentto New York City for the practice of my pro-fession, and closely watched the military career ofBenjamin F. Butler, whose generalship continuedto show the same qualities exhibited in ditch-digging at Vicksburg. I noted his assuming thecommand of an expedition designed by his superiorto be led by Gen. Weitzel, against Fort Fisher,where he thought glory awaited him; his attemptto demolish the fort by blowing up a powder boaton the shore opposite, as effective as would havebeen the discharge of fire-crackers; and his declar-ing before Congress that Fort Fisher could not betaken, immediately followed by the announcementthat Gen. Terry had taken Fort Fisher. I lately read a pamphlet by the Rev. H. N. Hudson, Chaplain of the 1st N. , who, after tendering his resignation, necessitated by the death of amember of his family and his own feeble health, was confined 53 days by , with prisoners and fugitives, in 1864, for alleged absence without leave,. VOLXEY S. AT 54. FULHA^I. 105 with no charges against him. and until Butler was finally relieved of his com-mand; the real cause being the Chaplains authorship of a criticism on Butlersgeneralship, that had appeared in a New York paper. Gen. Grant testified beforethe Joint Committee on the Conduct of the War, Feb. 11, 1865: I received aletter from a lady here in this city telling me about this case. I immediatelyordered Chaplain Hudson to report to me, and I had his case investigated, . .this was only a case of that sort, for which he should not have been confined atall, except in his own tent under arrest. John A. Andrew, War Governor ofMassachusetts, in conversation with Chaplain Hudson, January, 1865, said: Inthe first place, General Butler is utterly void of principle, so that there is noground for confidence in him; in the second place his passions are so violentand so headstrong, that they are continually
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