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Tuesday, January 1, 2019

Brigadier-General Benjamin F. Butler, April 25, 1861

ANNAPOLIS, MARYLAND, April 25th, 1861
ORDERs

BRIG. GEN’L. B. F. BUTLER, Commdg the Annapolis depot, will at once take measures, in concert with the Naval Commander at this station, to arm and hold Fort Madison and old Fort Nonsense, with such other points in their vicinity, on the opposite bank of the Severn, as may be necessary to secure the safety of this station.

By authority of the PRESIDENT OF THE U. S.

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. 42