ANNAPOLIS, MARYLAND, April
24th, 1861
ORDER No. 3
GENERAL B. F. BUTLER, being the senior officer present, will
take command of this Department of troops assembled at Annapolis.
By order of the PRESIDENT
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
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