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Varina Davis, Jefferson Davis: Ex-President of the Confederate States of America, A Memoir by his Wife, Volume 2, Chapter 4 : going to Montgomery .-appointment of the Cabinet . (search)
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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Constitution of the United States (search)
Contrabands.
On the day after his arrival at Fort Monroe, General Butler sent out Colonel Phelps, of the Vermont troops, to reconnoitre the vicinity of Hampton.
The citizens had just fired the bridge.
The flames were extinguished by the troops eir race, who were employed in building fortifications for the insurgents, desired to follow.
They were taken before General Butler.
He needed laborers in field-works which he was about to construct.
Regarding these slaves, according to the laws o e as they, as aids in warfare, and which might be used against the National troops, These men are contraband of war, said Butler; set them at work.
This order was scarcely announced before Major Carey, as agent of Colonel Mallory, and in charge of h shall detain them as contraband of war, said the general; and they were held as such.
Other slaves speedily came in. General Butler wrote to the Secretary of War, telling him what he had done, on the assumption that they were the property of an en