 | Benson John Lossing - History - 1866 - 628 pages
...his alleged crimes, when a letter, bearing a sting of reproof, came from General Scott, saying: — "Your hazardous occupation of Baltimore was made without...approbation. It is a God-send that it was without a conflict of arms. It is also reported that you have sent a detachment to Frederick, but this is impossible.... | |
 | Benson John Lossing - United States - 1874 - 1956 pages
...General Scott, saying: — "Your hazardous occupation of Baltimore was made without my knowledge, aod, of course, without my approbation. It is a God-send that it was without a conflict of arms. It is also reported that you have sent a detachment to Frederick, but^this is impossible.... | |
 | Thomas Augustus Bland - Generals - 1879 - 230 pages
...May, something occurred to disturb Gen. Butler. It was the following telegram from Washington : — " SIR, — Your hazardous occupation of Baltimore was...is a godsend that it was without conflict of arms." This furious telegram bore the name of the threehundred-pound thunderer, Lieut.-Gen. Winfield Scott... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin Butler - Generals - 1892 - 1252 pages
...dated the 14th, which, if not appalling, was certainly amusing. It was in the following words : — Sir: — Your hazardous occupation of Baltimore was...course, without my approbation. It is a godsend that it is without conflict of arms. It is also reported that you have sent a detachment to Frederick ; but... | |
 | William Thomas Davis - Lawyers - 1895 - 866 pages
...The occupation was made, but was not approved by General Scott, who sent him the following dispatchi "Sir, your hazardous occupation of Baltimore was made...received from you as to either movement. Let me hear from yon." He was soon after removed from the Department of Annapolis and, May Hi, 1861, made major'general... | |
 | United States. War Department - Confederate States of America - 1880 - 1128 pages
...WASHINGTON, DC, May 14, 1861. Brig. Gen. BENJAMIN F. BUTLER, Commanding Department of Annapolis, Md.: SIR : Your hazardous occupation of Baltimore was made...have I received from you as to either movement. Let mo hear from you. Very respectfully, youre, WINFIELD SCOTT. WASHINGTON, DC, May 15, 1861—2.17 am... | |
 | Barbara Jeanne Fields - History - 1987 - 288 pages
...need."24 General Scott, who had no warning of the move, demanded to know what Butler thought he was doing. "Your hazardous occupation of Baltimore was made without...a God-send that it was without conflict of arms," Scott wrote Butler. Receiving no immediate reply, he telegraphed Butler in the middle of the night,... | |
 | George W. Liebmann - Biography & Autobiography - 2001 - 324 pages
...apparently against the orders of General Scott, who wired: "Your hazardous occupation . . . was made without my approbation. It is a God-send that it was without conflict of arms."132 Butler reported to Scott that Brown "did not consider it the duty of the city authorities... | |
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Your hazardous occupation of Baltimore was made without my -knowledge, and, of course, without my approbation. It is a God-send that it was without a conflict of arms. 