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Benjamnin F. Butler, Butler's Book: Autobiography and Personal Reminiscences of Major-General Benjamin Butler, Chapter 13: occupations in 1863; exchange of prisoners. (search)
n their hands, we retaining all the rebel sick and wounded in ours, burdened us with the care and cost of all the sick and wounded of both sides, an operation of which it is difficult to see the strategic value, and is only to be defended because of its humanity in rescuing our wounded from the destitution and suffering permitted to them by the Confederates. Nothing further was done with the exchange save to receive from Richmond such sick and wounded as they delivered to us, till the 15th of August, when I received a note from Major Mulford, assistant agent of exchange, from which the following is extracted:-- The Confederate authorities will exchange prisoners on the basis heretofore 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 followi