WASHINGTON, D.C. April
29th, 1861
To Brigadier General BUTLER
With our present force we are no longer under apprehensions
for the safety of this City. In the course of the day you will be instructed as
to forwarding more troops.
WINFIELD SCOTT
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. 54
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