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Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Poetry and Incidents., Volume 5. (ed. Frank Moore), Munchauseniana. (search)
ed Baton Rouge and going to Jefferson City, two miles above New-Orleans. There are barely enough soldiers in the city to guard it. The night police are ordered to get themselves in readiness for any emergency at a moment's warning. The mortality among the Yankees is very great, and three of them are down with yellow fever at the Charity Hospital. The swamp opposite New-Orleans is full of Texan and Indian guerrillas, who very frequently make a Yankee bite the dust. Being provided with Jeff. Thompson's artillery, they run it to the river and fire into transports as they pass along. The Empire Parish was so severely damaged recently that transports are afraid to venture down the river at all now. An Indian chief with our guerrillas having heard that Butler intended hanging the famous Red bill no. One, visited Butler under a flag of truce and told him if he executed that Southern man, nine Yankees, whom he had in custody, should be swung up to the nearest tree. Butler concluded to s