Headquarters Third
Brigade, Second Division, M.V.M., ANNAPOLIS, April 23, 1861
To Mr. Hammond
SIR: I have your favor of this date in answer to mine of the
same. Lieut. Col. Hinks reports to me that in obedience to my order he has
taken possession of all the movable R. R. property that he can find belonging
to your Co., a duplicate list of which he has signed & delivered to the
person in charge thereof, so that the rights of the Company will be entirely
guarded. I will answer your inquiries with the same explicitness that you did
mine. My authority is the Order of the Government. My justification the
necessity for transportation. Your reparation the pledge of the faith of the
Government. I beg leave to call your attention to the fact that the United
States mail is not the only valuable property that the Government desires to be
carried over your Road.
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. 27
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