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[1] DS, DNA RG 46, Senate 37A F2; DS, DNA RG 233, House Executive Document No. 11. Butler's letter forwarding the swords---one of which had been presented to the hero of Monterey by Congress, one by the State of Georgia, and one by his native city of Augusta---is printed in House Executive Document No. 11. Upon fleeing from New Orleans, Twiggs presented the swords to Miss Rowena Florence, ``but as she had neglected to inform her father of this singular donation,
causa fugae, and as the girl's mother caused them to be given to a negro, to be sent back to General Twiggs' house, I ventured to interfere. . . .'' Butler suggested that the congressional sword be presented to ``some officer as a token of appreciation of loyalty,'' that the State of Georgia sword be placed in the library at West Point ``as a perpetual memento . . . how worse than useless are all education and military training . . . if heartfelt patriotism and undying fealty to the Constitution and the flag is wanting,'' and that the Augusta sword be placed in the Patent Office ``as a warning against the folly and uselessness of such an invention as `secession.''' A resolution (S. 116) introduced on January 7, 1863, disposing of the swords as Butler had suggested and following Lincoln's recommendation that Butler receive the congressional sword, was pigeonholed. Butler deposited the swords in the Treasury, and after the war they were returned to Twiggs' daughter (Butler's Book, p. 568 note).