Friday, January 15, 2016

Brigadier-General Benjamin F. Butler to Governor John A. Andrew, April 20, 1861 – 1½ A.M.

PHILADELPHIA, April 20th, 1½ A.M.
GovERNOR ANDREw, 71 Charles Street, BosTON

Another despatch says all but 120 of Jones regiment have arrived at Washington. This I do not credit. My first despatch was right — its details can be relied on. I would respectfully suggest that the Boston Light Artillery, with their horses and entire equipage for field duty, be put on ship board as quick as can be done, and the importance of this movement will be made quite apparent as soon as it is accomplished.

B. F. BUTLER, Brig. Genl.

SOURCE: Jessie Ames Marshall, Editor, Private and Official Correspondence of Gen. Benjamin F. Butler During the Period of the Civil War, Volume 1: April 1860 – June 1862, p. 18

No comments: