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Benjamnin F. Butler, Butler's Book: Autobiography and Personal Reminiscences of Major-General Benjamin Butler, Chapter 11: military operations. (search)
ivates and 211 officers of the Confederate army had given the required parole. The women generally refused to take the oath. Meanwhile, it became necessary to take another precaution, and that was to require all the arms in the city to be delivered up and put in my possession. To this, the French consul of course objected in a letter to Lieutenant Weitzel, who was the assistant military commandant. This letter was as follows:-- French consulate at New Orleans, New Orleans, August 12, 1862. Sir:--The new order of the day, which has been published this morning, and by which you require that all and whatever arms which may be in the possession of the people of this city, must be delivered up, has caused the most serious alarm among the French subjects of New Orleans. Foreigners, sir, and particularly Frenchmen, have, notwithstanding the accusations brought against some of them by certain persons, sacrificed everything to maintain, during the actual conflict, the neutr