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Benjamnin F. Butler, Butler's Book: Autobiography and Personal Reminiscences of Major-General Benjamin Butler, Chapter 1: lineage and education. (search)
looked up the law in regard to my cases, and studied each point with great avidity, so that I substantially began the study of law then. I soon became proficient in the law of evidence, especially in the rules of pleading in criminal process. My studies, therefore, lasted frequently into the night, and I often called for my horse at the stable for a ride, after the hour of twelve had struck. This went on until the autumn of 1839, when a vacancy occurred in a small academy in the town of Dracut, across the Merrimack River, and the trustees asked me to take charge of the school. For my services I was to receive the tuition paid by the pupils, and that depended upon the number of scholars. It was a queer school. There were twenty-one scholars, about sixteen of whom were boys. The large portion of them were pupils who had found cause to leave the schools in Lowell, generally not because of their virtues. They ignored all discipline, and had routed the former preceptor. I, by hab
Benjamnin F. Butler, Butler's Book: Autobiography and Personal Reminiscences of Major-General Benjamin Butler, Chapter 2: early political action and military training. (search)
Chapter 2: early political action and military training. Courtship and marriage Weds Miss Sarah Hildreth, of Dracut their four children why the youngest was sent to West Point a War every generation the Butler coat of arms Mrs. Butler during the Rebellion political course: governing principle and belief early campaign for shorter hours in Lowell mills hostility of manufacturers rise of the Democratic Free-soil Coalition State election of 1851 whoever votes the Ben. Butlehat portion of my life for whose pursuits I have had the greatest fondness, and I shall describe them in a continuous narrative later on. In the year 1839 I made the acquaintance of Fisher Ames Hildreth, the only son of Dr. Israel Hildreth, of Dracut, a town adjoining Lowell on the north side of Merrimack River. That acquaintance ripened into an affectionate friendship which terminated only with his death thirty years afterwards. Dr. Hildreth had a family of seven children, six of them be
Benjamnin F. Butler, Butler's Book: Autobiography and Personal Reminiscences of Major-General Benjamin Butler, Index. (search)
orts to, 757. Dodge, Capt., Geo. S., faithful services at Bermuda Hundred, 899. Dodge, Colonel, telegram from, 784; prepared to ship troops on Roanoke expedition, 784. Douglas, Stephen A., as candidate for presidential nomination in 1860, 135, 138, 143, 145; views of slavery, 146,147,148; reference to, 982. Downing, Maj., Jack, incident of President Jackson, 976, 981. Dow, Col., Neal, stands by his men and Butler, 344; report regarding Forts Jackson and St. Philip, 369. Dracut, Mass., teaches school in, 73; home of future wife, 78. Draper, Colonel, raid into Virginia and North Carolina, 617-618. Drury's Bluff, battle of, 663, 666; in reference to, 833, 855; anecdote of, 891-892. Dubow, Colonel, reference to, 723. Dumas, Matthew, on the battle of Marengo, 865. Duncan, Gen. J. H., report on Porter's bombardment, 360, 361, 369; reference to, 371. Dupont, Captain (Admiral), 181,183. Duryea, Col. A., at Big Bethel, 267-272. Durant, Hon. Thomas J.,