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Benjamnin F. Butler, Butler's Book: Autobiography and Personal Reminiscences of Major-General Benjamin Butler, Chapter 9: taking command of a Southern City. (search)
her health, should be allowed to come up under forty days. Having shut the door against our destroying enemy and fastened it securely, I engaged the most competent medical director in the matter of yellow fever there was in the country, Doctor MacCormick, who fought it in New Orleans through the siege of 1853. Before he came I procured a perfectly competent quarantine officer, to whom I was to pay double the salary of the State quarantine officer upon the ground that I did not need his serhat I was right, but the oath had been false. Well, doctor, I said, here is a little order to the lieutenant of the provost guard to have a squad of sentries around that square down in Frenchtown in which these yellow fever patients are. Doctor MacCormick, you will post them. Let nobody go in or out except you accompany them or they bring my written order. Take your acclimated men and have those sick men attended to carefully. Burn everything that they see, almost, for we must prevent the
Benjamnin F. Butler, Butler's Book: Autobiography and Personal Reminiscences of Major-General Benjamin Butler, Chapter 19: observations upon matters connected with the War. (search)
etentions and delays of official correspondence, it was many weeks before I received a reply, so that 1 had to make all my dispositions against that enemy before I got any assistance of professional skill. But when it did come it brought Dr. Charles MacCormick. He was a man very considerably advanced in years, who had been a surgeon in the United States Army for quite a long period, and had been stationed at New Orleans during the great epidemic of yellow fever which more than decimated the city in 1853, of which I have spoken. Doctor MacCormick deserves that a book should be written upon his services, for they deserve much more than the brief notice my limits will permit me here to give. He was exceedingly efficient in organizing the hospitals for which I had taken possession of some of the largest buildings in the city, notably the St. Louis Hotel. He gave me great confidence because he entirely approved of what I had done, and relieved me from the load of care and anxiety whic
Benjamnin F. Butler, Butler's Book: Autobiography and Personal Reminiscences of Major-General Benjamin Butler, Index. (search)
gotiations with the East, 948. Newport News, occupation of, 253, 255; advance from, on the Bethels, 267, 269; transport fleet assembled at, 640; reference to, 627. Nesmith, Hon., Geo. W., tribute to, 39. N. Y. Tribune, see Tribune. N. Y. Times, see Times. N. Y. address in, 561, 565. N. Y. volunteer engineers, 833. N. Y. Herald, see Herald. N. Y. Evening Post, see Post. New York City, Butler ordered to preserve peace in, 754, 771; the gold conspiracy in, 762, 768; Dr. MacCormick dies in, 895; De Kay in, 889; Davenport distinguished in, 900; reference to, 943. Nineteenth Corps ordered to Butler's command, 696; reference to, 700, 817, 859. Nichols, Assistant Adjutant-General W. A., ordered to relieve Butler of his command, 827-828. Nicholay & Hay's Life of Lincoln, critical references to, 219, 227, 243, 260, 264, 421. Nim's battery, 460. Ninth Connecticut regiment, story of, 311, 316, at Baton Rouge, 483; at Camp Moore, 460. Ninth New Jersey, pos