We had one person there who was very knowledgeable about Benjamin Butler and said he had at one time been gathering information to write a book about said person.
** Lincoln did not speak with his first vice president, Hannibal Hamlin.
** Butler's "powder ship" experiment was worth the shot. The Navy had a ship it was no longer using, plus lots and lots of gunpowder. It was worth a shot.
** Of interest, Admiral Porter was sure a backer of this plan until it didn't work. Then he said he knew it wouldn't work.
** Butler defended Sutter at Sutter's Mill in California for ownership of the gold found there that sparked all that 49-er rush.
** In the Trent Affair, former President Millard Fillmore played a huge role in keeping Britain out of the war. He wrote a letter to Lincoln and Queen Victoria. The Union paid $50,000 in gold and released the Confederate commissioners.
** Butler also defended the people arrested in Chicago's Haymarket Square Riot.
--Old Secesh
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