ANNAPOLIS, MD., April
23, 1861
DEAR SARAH: I have worked like a horse, slept not two hours
a night, have saved the “Old Ironsides” Frigate from the secessionists, and
have landed in the Capital of Maryland against the protest of her Government. I
am now about to march on Washington as I have telegraphed you. You must not
hope to get regular intelligence, as the mails are stopped. I think no man has
won more in ten days than I have. We will see, however. Goodbye – kiss the
children for me.
BUTLER
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. 32
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