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Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 1., Chapter 21: beginning of the War in Southeastern Virginia. (search)
h Carolina for the same purpose. They were taken before General Butler. He needed laborers on field-works, which he expected to erect immediately. Regarding these slaves, according to the laws of Virginia, as much the property of Colonel Mallory as his horses or his pistols, and as properly seizable as they, as aids in warfare, and which might be used against the National troops, Butler said:--These men are contraband of war; set them at work. This order was scarcely pronounced before Major Carey, of the Virginia Volunteers, sought an interview with the General respecting the fugitives, representing himself as the agent of Colonel Mallory in charge of his property. The interview was granted, when the Major wished to know what the General intended to do with the runaways. I shall detain them as contraband of war, was the reply; and they were held as such. Other slaves speedily followed those of Colonel Mallory, and General Butler wrote to the Secretary of War concerning them,