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Mississippi (United States) (search for this): chapter 15
n Butler — the beastliest, bloodiest poltroon and pickpocket the world ever saw. I was called to Washington, and the question of my taking command on the Mississippi River was again discussed between the President and myself. He wished me to go on to the Mississippi River from St. Louis down, and examine what, if anything, wasMississippi River from St. Louis down, and examine what, if anything, was being done in the way of civil administration of the several departments, and also to advise him upon the military situation. I heard him fully and told him that I would take that proposition into consideration. When I saw him afterwards he produced an authorization and pass, written wholly by his own hand, dated February 11, 18eavier than at City Point; but leaving that question, as well as the one whether the prisoners held by us in the West might not be delivered somewhere on the Mississippi River, and thus save an expensive land transportation, to be adjusted by future conference, after other questions of more moment were settled. We then proceeded
Twiggs (search for this): chapter 15
ets in the hands of slaves; after peculation the most prodigious, and lies the most infamous, he returns, reeking with crime, to his own people, and they receive him with acclamations of joy in a manner that befits him and becomes themselves. Nothing is out of keeping; his whole career and its rewards are strictly artistic in conception and in execution. He was a thief. A sword that he had stolen from a woman — the niece of the brave Twiggs —— was presented to him as a reward of valor. Twiggs' sword, being deposited in the treasury by me, after the war was returned to his daughter, although his reputed mistress, from whose possession it was taken, brought suit against me in New York for it, which I successfully defended. He had violated the laws of God and man. The law makers of the United States voted him thanks, and the preachers of the Yankee gospel of blood came to him and worshipped him. He had broken into the safes and strong boxes of merchants. The New York Chamber of Com<
Francis A. Walker (search for this): chapter 15
retofore proposed by our government, that is, man for man. This proposition was proposed formally to me after I saw you. Shall I come to you before I arrange to go up river again for wounded? I intend to leave there Wednesday morning unless you direct otherwise . . . . To this I telegraphed the following reply:-- headquarters Department of Virginia and North Carolina, in the field, Aug. 16, 1864, 8.15 A. M. Major Mulford, agent of exchange, Fortress Monroe: Bring up with you General Walker to be exchanged for General Bartlett, and what wounded Confederate officers there are at the hospitals at Fortress Monroe. Also send for Captain Woolford. I do not want any women for this trip from Norfolk or Fortress Monroe. Many Southern women, claiming to be from the North, made application to be sent South by flag of truce boat, and in some instances passage had been given; but it was ascertained that most of them were female Southern spies, who conveyed information to the ene
George Washington (search for this): chapter 15
them in one particular part of the Confederacy, where we destroyed nothing of their resources, and did not diminish their capabilities of defending themselves. I stated that such a plan of operations could be carried on well enough, because Washington was then entrenched and fortified so sufficiently that if defended with half of the Army of the Potomac it could be held against any army that could be brought against it, especially as I thought there might be sufficient drain upon the Confedee Confederacy, for it is but a shell. Assuming the worst, before that army, if properly led, can be captured, there will have to be a very much larger army of the rebels brought upon it, and then our army can be sent down to help us as soon as Washington is relieved, and the fears of the administration for its safety quieted. This plan of operations, said I, is more or less faultless; but if something like this can be done, and I can have permission to get such a force together, and can be a
Wellington (search for this): chapter 15
many thousands of lives which, by the refusal to exchange, were lost by the most cruel forms of deaths from cold, starvation, and pestilence in the prison pens of Raleigh, Salisbury, and Andersonville,--many more in number than all the British soldiers ever had by Great Britain on any field of battle with Napoleon; The effective strength of the British troops (English, Irish, and Scotch) in the allied army at the commencement of the battle of Waterloo was 25,389. (See Maxwell's Life of Wellington, Vol. III., Appendix, page 564. Appendix No. 13, page 593.) the anxiety of fathers, brothers, sisters, mothers, wives, to know the exigency which caused this terrible, and perhaps as it may have seemed to them useless and unnecessary, destruction of those dear to them by horrible deaths,--each and all have compelled me to this exposition, so that it might be seen that these lives were spent as a part of the system of attack upon the Rebellion, devised by the wisdom of the general-in-chief
Woolford (search for this): chapter 15
e to go up river again for wounded? I intend to leave there Wednesday morning unless you direct otherwise . . . . To this I telegraphed the following reply:-- headquarters Department of Virginia and North Carolina, in the field, Aug. 16, 1864, 8.15 A. M. Major Mulford, agent of exchange, Fortress Monroe: Bring up with you General Walker to be exchanged for General Bartlett, and what wounded Confederate officers there are at the hospitals at Fortress Monroe. Also send for Captain Woolford. I do not want any women for this trip from Norfolk or Fortress Monroe. Many Southern women, claiming to be from the North, made application to be sent South by flag of truce boat, and in some instances passage had been given; but it was ascertained that most of them were female Southern spies, who conveyed information to the enemy. Come up as soon as you can with the New York. Benj. F. Butler, Major-General Commanding. The flag of truce steamer New York appeared off City Point
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