Tuesday, October 27, 2015

Governor John A. Andrew to Brigadier-General Benjamin F. Butler, April 19, 1861, 7 p.m.

From Telegraph Office, BosTON, Apr. 19th, 7 P.M.

Brig. Gen. BENJ. F. BUTLER, with Mass. troops at Phila.:

When did you reach Phila.? When will you leave? Is the way open? Can you communicate by telegraph with Washington? Has Jones reached Washington? Answer tonight Sure.

JoHN A. ANDREW

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. 16

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