. Autobiography and personal reminiscences of Major-General Benj. F. Butler; Butler's book . le. I send a copy of the terms of capitulation. I donot wish to take from the well-earned and well-deserved considerationdue to the navy for their brilliant exploit in running past Forts and Jackson. I have borne and shall ever bear testimony to their 372 BUTLERS BOOK. courage and gallantry on that occasion, but after that no shot was fireduntil the surrender, and the forts could have been held for weeks, if notmonths, so far as the bombardment was concerned, for in the judgment ofthe best en
. Autobiography and personal reminiscences of Major-General Benj. F. Butler; Butler's book . le. I send a copy of the terms of capitulation. I donot wish to take from the well-earned and well-deserved considerationdue to the navy for their brilliant exploit in running past Forts and Jackson. I have borne and shall ever bear testimony to their 372 BUTLERS BOOK. courage and gallantry on that occasion, but after that no shot was fireduntil the surrender, and the forts could have been held for weeks, if notmonths, so far as the bombardment was concerned, for in the judgment ofthe best engineering skill they were then as defensible as before the bom-bardment. I will not permit too great meed of praise on the part ofanybody to takeaway the merit fairly due my brave soldiers, who enduredso much hardship and showed as much bravery as the most gallant tarof them all, for we landed within five miles above the forts and livelyram, protected by only two gunboats, while the mortar boats, protectedby seven gunboats, retreated twenty-five miles below the forts and out ofthe
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