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Benjamnin F. Butler, Butler's Book: Autobiography and Personal Reminiscences of Major-General Benjamin Butler, Appendix. (search)
n the dignity of the government, and give a promise to afford protection to its citizens. I have the honor to be, General, very respectfully, your obedient servant, Benj. F. Butler, Major-General Commanding. [Inclosure no 1.] headquarters Armiy and district of North Carolina, New Berne, N. C, Feb. 11, 1864. Major-General Pickett, Department of Virginia and North Carolina, Confederate Army, Petersburg: General:--I have the honor to enclose a slip cut from the Richmond Examiner of Feb. 8, 1864. It is styled The advance on New Berne, and appears to have been extracted from the Petersburg Register, a paper published in the city where your headquarters are located. Your attention is particularly invited to that paragraph which states that Colonel Shaw was shot dead by a negro soldier from the other side of the river which he was spanning with a pontoon bridge, and that the negro was watched and followed, taken, and hanged after the action at Thomasville. The Petersburg Regi