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Benjamnin F. Butler, Butler's Book: Autobiography and Personal Reminiscences of Major-General Benjamin Butler, Chapter 2: early political action and military training. (search)
hat our children must not be bereft of both parents, did she leave me to seek safety on board a gunboat. But of that more hereafter. She suffered great privations and hardships on the sands of Ship Island while we were awaiting the attack on New Orleans, and was on the first vessel containing troops that went up the river after the surrender of Forts Jackson and St. Philip. She went ashore with me and lodged at the St. Charles Hotel on the night after I took possession of the city of New Orleans. When in 1863 I was assigned to the command of the Department of Virginia and North Carolina, she accompanied me again to Fort Monroe. In 1864 she went with me to the field, and was present with me during most of the campaign of 1864. Thus I had an advantage over most of my brother commanding generals in the department and in the field, in having an adviser, faithful and true, clear-headed, conscientious and conservative, whose conclusions could always be trusted. In the mere milita
Benjamnin F. Butler, Butler's Book: Autobiography and Personal Reminiscences of Major-General Benjamin Butler, Chapter 9: taking command of a Southern City. (search)
eadquarters Department of the Gulf, New Orleans, May 1, 1862. The city of New Orleans and its environs, with all its interior and exterior defences, having been sthe Government of the United States in thus taking possession of the city of New Orleans and the State of Louisiana, and the rules and regulations by which the laws been in rebellion against their authority. Thrice before has the city of New Orleans been rescued from the hand of a foreign government, and still more calamitouformed that there is now at Mobile a stock of flour purchased by the city of New Orleans for the subsistence of its citizens. The suffering condition of the poor ofssage to the military commandant and the city council of New Orleans:-- New Orleans, June 4, 1862. to the military commandant and City council of New Orleans: as an author and an artist, and not inferior in either calling. The city of New Orleans, as well as the writer, owes him a debt of deepest gratitude, for in additio
Benjamnin F. Butler, Butler's Book: Autobiography and Personal Reminiscences of Major-General Benjamin Butler, Chapter 10: the woman order, Mumford's execution, etc. (search)
authorized the mayor to issue the bonds of the city for a million dollars; and provided that the chairman of the finance committee might pay over the said bonds to the Committee of Public Safety, appointed by the common council of the city of New Orleans, as per resolution No. 8,930, approved 20th of February, 1862, in such sums as they may require for the purchase of arms and munitions of war, provisions, or to provide any means for the successful defence of the city and its approaches. Ane honor to be your obedient servant, Benjamin F. Butler, Major-General Commanding. The government sustained Order No. 55, and upon that being made known to the commanding general, on December 9, 1862, he issued the following order:-- New Orleans, December 9, 1862. Under General Order No. 55, current series, from these headquarters, an assessment was made upon certain parties who had aided the rebellion, to be appropriated to the relief of the starving poor of New Orleans. The ca
Benjamnin F. Butler, Butler's Book: Autobiography and Personal Reminiscences of Major-General Benjamin Butler, Chapter 11: military operations. (search)
ad issued an order as follows:-- headquarters Department of the Gulf, New Orleans, La., June 6, 1862. Brigadier-General Thomas Williams, Commanding forces, Batoned to him the following letter:-- headquarters Department of the Gulf New Orleans, La., July 26, 1862. Major-General Halleck, Commanding Department of the West: refore. Be it resolved, That the freedom and hospitalities of the city of New Orleans be tendered, through the commander of the Catinet, to the French naval fleettice of the lamented Williams:-- headquarters Department of the Gulf, New Orleans, La., August 7, 1862. General Order No. 56. The commanding general announceS. Davis, Captain and A. A. G. headquarters Department of the Gulf, New Orleans, La., August 9, 1862. General Order No. 57. Soldiers of the Army of the Gulserve Brigade. Maj. George C. Strong, Asst. Adjt.-Gen., Dept. of the Gulf, New Orleans, La. My surprise may not be imagined when I received these reports from Wei
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)
ingly issued, on the 16th of May, the following General Order No. 29:-- New Orleans, May 16, 1862. I. It is hereby ordered that neither the city of New OrleaNew Orleans, nor the banks thereof, exchange their notes, bills, or obligations for Confederate notes, bills, or bonds, nor issue any bill, note, or obligation payable in Conear the loss. Thereupon I issued the following General Order No. 30:-- New Orleans, May 19, 1862. It is represented to the commanding general that great dising. War Records, Vol. XV., p. 514. headquarters Department of the Gulf, New Orleans, La., July 2, 1862. Hon. Salmon P. Chase, Secretary of the Treasury: Sir:--Wal position, only a portion of which was heretofore yours. Benj. F. Butler. New Orleans, Dec. 24, 1862. There is a companion piece to this address, published atlicly executed in cold blood by hanging, after the occupation of the city of New Orleans by the forces under Gen. Benjamin F. Butler, when said Mumford was an unresi