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It is a doubtful and debated question whether General Butler was personally to blame for this terrible and disgraceful repulse.
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Hoar questions the accountability of a general for a disastrous military defeat, reflecting on the complexities of blame.
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The irrepressible conflict had to be fought out.
He indignantly rejected it, and declared he would not eat a creature that he loved.
But, as I have already said, when the time came, he always subordinated his own desire to what he deemed the welfare of the public.
He has fallen at the very gate of an honorable and eminent career, and a thousand hopes are buried in his grave.
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