Headquarters, Third
Brigade, Second Division, Mass. Vol. Militia, April 21, 1861
GovERNOR OF
MARYLAND
SIR: I have the honor to receive your note by the hands of
Mathews of the United States Naval School at Annapolis. I am sorry that your
Excellency should advise against my landing here. I am not provisioned for a
long voyage. Finding the ordinary means of communication cut off by the burning
of Railroad bridges by a mob, I have been obliged to make this detour, and hope
that your Excellency will see that from the very necessity of the case there is
no cause of excitement in the minds of any good citizens because of our being
driven here by any ordinary casualty.
I should at once obey, however, an Order from the Secretary
of war.
Respectfully,
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. 22
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