Headquarters, ANNAPOLIs,
MARYLAND, April 24th, 1861
Capt. BLAKE
DEAR SIR: Of all the disasters of the unhappy state of
public affairs I reckon it not the least that we have been obliged to interrupt
so permanently the efficiency of the Naval School at Annapolis. That as little
harm as possible may be done I shall give directions that all assignments of
quarter shall be made by Captain Rodgers, and will most fully coöperate with
him in the preservation of the public property.
Faithfully your
friend,
B. F. B.
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. 35-6
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