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Private and Official Correspondence of Gen. Benjamin F. Butler; During the Period of the Civil War Privately Issued
Private and Official Correspondence of Gen Benjamin F Butler During the Period of the Civil War Privately Issued Author:Benjamin Franklin Butler General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1917 Original Publisher: The Plimpton Press Subjects: Butler, Benjamin F., 1818-1893-Correspondence Generals United States Correspondence United States History Civil War, 1861-1865 United States Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no ill... more »ustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: We know of their being reenforced by Hoke's Div. and three brigades of Field's Division, about 3500 men. Look out for tomorrow morning. - T-i T. - s , 7, fa Benj. F. Butler, Maj. Gen 1. Comdg. From General Butler Hd. Qrs. Army of the James, Sept. 30, '64, 11 P. M. Maj. Gen. Birney, Comd'g. 10th Army Corps You will have to send me another officer and thirty men, as prisoners still keep coming in and I have actually no guard here. Please hurry the men forward. T, Ti T Benj. F. Butler From General Butler Hd. Qrs. Army of the James, Sept. S0, '64, 11 P. M. Maj. Gen. Birney, Comd'g. 10 Corps You will please at once order your commissary to prepare and send here immediately, reporting to my Prov. Mar. here, rations for one hundred and thirty men prisoners of war. Benj. F. Butler, Maj. Gen'l. Comd'g. From General Butler Head Qrs. Army of the James, in the Field, Sept. S0th, 1864 Col. Moore, Comd'g. 203rd Reg't Pa. Vols. Birney's sharpshooters are hereby detailed to take command of the post of Deep Bottom and on the other side of 4 mile creek. He will be responsible for picket, provost, and other duties, and will receive all recruits and report them to their proper commands, and forward them, if ordered by their commanding officers. He will see that no enlisted man passes the pontoon bridge from the post without a proper order or an orderly bearing despatches. Benj. F. Butler, Maj. Gen'l. Comd'g. From ...« less