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July 10. A meeting was held in Huttonville, Randolph County, Va., at which the following resolution was adopted: Resolved, That we, as citizens, are willing to live under the Federal Government and its laws, and that we will give any information to the Federal commanders in relation to the operation of certain bands of men known as Guerrillas or Mountain Rangers. At New Orleans John H. Larue, being by his own confession a vagrant, was committed to the parish prison, and Anna Larue, his wife, having been found in the public streets wearing a confederate flag upon her person, in order to incite riot, was sent to Ship Island, by the command of Gen. Butler.--Special Order, No. 179. The Provost-Marshal of Memphis, Tennessee, issued an order requiring all persons connected with the rebel army or government to leave the city with their families within five days.--A company of guerrillas, ninety in number, engaged in drilling in a field between Gallatin and Hartsville, Ten
Benjamnin F. Butler, Butler's Book: Autobiography and Personal Reminiscences of Major-General Benjamin Butler, Chapter 12: administration of finances, politics, and justice.--recall. (search)
e currency Compelling the Banks to pay out specie curbstone dealers in Confederate money their course a reliable news barometer Street disturbances case of Mrs. Larue no money to pay the troops Farragut's appeal for influence Adams express company called on an Army self-supported Banks' subsequent troubles General Butleows a skeleton with a large label, Chickahominy, on it, and told my soldiers who inquired about it that it was a Yankee skeleton from Chickahominy. Arrest of Mrs. Larue at New Orleans. One Andrew, a cousin of my friend the Governor of Massachusetts, a high-toned gentleman (?), presented himself in the Louisiana Club with a and prevent her from getting up a riot in the street? I couldn't, General. Well, you see I can. It is a very tyrannical order. Ah, who are you? John H. Larue. And what is your occupation? I am a sporting man, sir; I play cards for a living. Ah, in my country such men are classed as vagrants, having no visible
rkwood House, Washington, Johnson at, 930. Know-Nothing party, 120, 125. Kruttschmidt, acting Prussian consul at New Orleans, 432-435. Ku-Klux, outrages of, 961; the bill passed in regard to, 962. L Lacy, I. Horace, letter to Mahone from, 881, 887. Lafayette, upon military commission, 843. Lamb, Colonel, report of, 804; upon powder-boat, 806; upon Fort Fisher attack, 810, 818, 819; superintends construction of fort, 812; describes fort, 813; letter quoted, 814, 816. Larue, John H., and wife arrested, 511, 513. L'Enfant, Major, Washington Assistant Engineer, anecdote of, 186-187. Law, Butler first attracted to, 63; study of, 71, 74; examination for bar, 74, 77; Butler's son studies, 81. law, Geo., candidate for dictator, 279, 576. Lawrence, Hon., Wm., on Johnson impeachment case, 928. Lawrence, Captain, repels Confederates at Drury's Bluff, 663. Lee, Admiral S. P., in command on James River, 588; receives plan of operations from Butler, 638; reply
of threats and abuse, and further took out of her bosom innumerable bits of paper, on which were written insulting epithets, addressed to the United States authorities, and one by one thrust them into General Shepley's hand. After some few questions she was put in a carriage and conveyed to General Butler's headquarters, where she was recognized as the mistress of a gambler and murderer, now, by General Butler's orders, confined at Fort Jackson, but nominally passing as the wife of one John H. Larue.--The result of the examination was as follows: Headq'rs Department of the Gulf,New Orleans July 10, 1862 Special Order No. 179,--John H. Larne, being by his own confession a vagrant, a person without visible means of support, and one who gets his living by playing cards, is committed to the Parish. Prison till further orders. Anna Larue, his wife, having been found in the public streets, wearing a Confederate flag upon her person, in order to incite to riot, which act has alr