J. Bankhead Magruder. |
1 Magruder, who became a “Confederate general,” was an infamous character. He was a lieutenant-colonel of the artillery in the National Army, and, according to a late writer, professed loyalty until he was ready to abandon his flag. “Mr. Lincoln,” he said to the President, at the White House, at the.middle of April, “every one else may desert you, but I never will.” The President thanked him, and two days afterward, having done all in his power to corrupt the troops in Washington City, he fled and joined the insurgents. See Greeley's American Conflict, i. 506.
2 Parton's Butler in New Orleans, page 142. In that plan Winthrop put down, among other items, the following:--“George Scott to have a shooting-iron.” --“So,” says Parton, “the first suggestion of arming a black man in this war came from Theodore Winthrop. George Scott had a shooting-iron.” In one of his last letters to a friend, Winthrop wrote:--“If I come back safe, I will send you my notes of the plan of attack, J)art made up from the General's hints, part my own fancies.”
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