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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
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
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
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
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<
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
Swan Point (Maryland, United States) (search for this): chapter 15
back into the Union. [Renewed applause.] no danger from the Army. There never has been any division of sentiment in the army itself. They have always been for the Union unconditionally, for the government and the laws at any and all times. And who are this army? Are they men different from us? Not at all. I see some here that have come back from the army, and are now waiting to recover their health to go back and join that army. Are they to be any different on the banks of the Potomac or in the marshes of Louisiana, or struggling with the turbid current of the Mississippi than they are here? Are our sons, our brothers, to have different thoughts and different feelings from us, simply because to-day they wear blue and to-morrow they wear black, or to-day they wear black and to-morrow they wear blue? Not at all. They are from us, they are of us, they are with us. The same love of liberty, ay, and you will pardon me for saying it, a little more love for the Union, have ca
Alleghany Mountains (United States) (search for this): chapter 15
ted by our army. There is one episode in my life of the greatest possible interest and importance, not only to myself personally but to the whole country. It caused the deepest feeling and the most acrimonious discussion, and as the true history of it is necessary to be stated at some length, it may as well be done here as elsewhere, as it wholly disconnects itself from any subsequent phase of my history. Fortress Monroe was the point from which all exchange of prisoners, east of the Alleghanies, had been made during the disagreement between the commissioners of exchange on the part of the United States, and the rebel commissioner, Mr. Ould. This disagreement was substantially as to the number which had been determined and credited on either side, and in consequence of it all exchange of prisoners had ceased. The rebels were confessedly in debt to us in a balance of some eighteen thousand prisoners for whom they had given us no equivalent. Major-Generals Grant and Banks ha
Vicksburg (Mississippi, United States) (search for this): chapter 15
ommissioners of exchange on the part of the United States, and the rebel commissioner, Mr. Ould. This disagreement was substantially as to the number which had been determined and credited on either side, and in consequence of it all exchange of prisoners had ceased. The rebels were confessedly in debt to us in a balance of some eighteen thousand prisoners for whom they had given us no equivalent. Major-Generals Grant and Banks had paroled large numbers of prisoners at Port Hudson and Vicksburg. If they had been held as prisoners they could not have been put again into the Confederate service without a corresponding number being given us in exchange. The fact that these men were soon afterwards re-enlisted was claimed by us to be a breach of the cartel on the part of the Confederates. Meanwhile our prisoners, to the number of some thirteen thousand, were suffering and dying by cold and starvation in Richmond and elsewhere, while we held in our prisons some twenty-six thousand
Port Hudson (Louisiana, United States) (search for this): chapter 15
t between the commissioners of exchange on the part of the United States, and the rebel commissioner, Mr. Ould. This disagreement was substantially as to the number which had been determined and credited on either side, and in consequence of it all exchange of prisoners had ceased. The rebels were confessedly in debt to us in a balance of some eighteen thousand prisoners for whom they had given us no equivalent. Major-Generals Grant and Banks had paroled large numbers of prisoners at Port Hudson and Vicksburg. If they had been held as prisoners they could not have been put again into the Confederate service without a corresponding number being given us in exchange. The fact that these men were soon afterwards re-enlisted was claimed by us to be a breach of the cartel on the part of the Confederates. Meanwhile our prisoners, to the number of some thirteen thousand, were suffering and dying by cold and starvation in Richmond and elsewhere, while we held in our prisons some twent
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