. Autobiography and personal reminiscences of Major-General Benj. F. Butler; Butler's book . CHAPTER XLMILITARY OPERATIONS. kHE question must have arisen in the mind of the reader,in poring over the administration of these many civilaffairs: Were military operations delayed while thesethings were being done ? By no means. Farragut and myself were orderedto do two things, if we could; first, to open theMississippi River; second, to capture Mobile. Now, the capture ofMobile was of no earthly military consequence to anybody. It waslike the attempted capture of Savannah, Port Royal, Fernandina,Bru
. Autobiography and personal reminiscences of Major-General Benj. F. Butler; Butler's book . CHAPTER XLMILITARY OPERATIONS. kHE question must have arisen in the mind of the reader,in poring over the administration of these many civilaffairs: Were military operations delayed while thesethings were being done ? By no means. Farragut and myself were orderedto do two things, if we could; first, to open theMississippi River; second, to capture Mobile. Now, the capture ofMobile was of no earthly military consequence to anybody. It waslike the attempted capture of Savannah, Port Royal, Fernandina,Brunswick, and Charleston, in which places the lives of so manygood men were sacrificed. These places could all have been heldby a few vessels under the command of vigilant, energetic, andambitious young naval officers. The absolute inability of the Confederacy to have a navy orany force on the sea, ought to have suggested to us a militianavy for coast protection and defence. Then there could havebeen an early concentration of our troops into large armies for thepurpose of instruction and d
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