PRIVATE.
H’d Q’rs Dep't of
New England, BosTON, Nov.
9th, 1861
MY DEAR SIR: Gen. Wool has resigned. Gen. Fremont must. Gen.
Scott has retired.
I have an ambition, and I trust a laudable one, to be Major
General of the United States Army. Has any body done more to deserve it? No one
will do more. May I rely upon you as you have confidence in me to take this
matter into consideration?
I will not disgrace the position. I may fail in its duties.
Truly Yours,
BENJ. F. BUTLER
P.S. I have made the same suggestion to other of my friends.
B. F. B.
SOURCES: 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. 274; Clara B. Hay, Letters
of John Hay and Extracts from Diary, Volume 1, p. 51; Tyler Dennett, Lincoln
and the Civil War in the Diaries and Letters of John Hay, p. 33-4.
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