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Benjamnin F. Butler, Butler's Book: Autobiography and Personal Reminiscences of Major-General Benjamin Butler, Chapter 4: the call for troops. (search)
t that under the orders of General Scott, I was prepared to march to the Relay House, within eight miles of Baltimore, and hold that very important point against I did not know what force or under what circumstances. What ought I to do; stand to what I had done if right, and defend it, or resign my commission and go home? This is what I did do. Here is the governor's letter of reprimand and my reply:-- Commonwealth of Massachusetts. executive Department, council chamber Boston, April 25, 1861. General:--I have received through Major Ames a despatch transmitted from Perryville, detailing the proceedings at Annapolis from the time of your arrival off that port until the hour when Major Ames left you to return to Philadelphia. I wish to repeat the assurance of my entire satisfaction with the action you have taken with a single exception. If I rightly understood the telegraphic despatch, I think that your action in tendering to Governor Hicks the assistance of our Massachuse