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Benjamnin F. Butler, Butler's Book: Autobiography and Personal Reminiscences of Major-General Benjamin Butler, Chapter 12: administration of finances, politics, and justice.--recall. (search)
Foreign Ministers, December 15 (pp. 149, 150), says:-- General Banks sailed from New York fifteen days ago, with reinforcements for New Orleans, and we suppose that he must before this time have reached and taken command of that city. We are inaugurating a system of administration in New Orleans, under General Banks, which will relieve the condition there of much of the uneasiness which it is supposed affected the disposition of foreign powers. . . . Thus it will be seen that on October 20, by executive order, not transmitted to me, Seward caused to be established a Provisional Court, which was done in defiance of the Constitution and laws of Congress, inasmuch as it was not for military purposes. He claimed that judgments by it were to be final and conclusive, not to be revised by any court. His biographer says that the validity of its acts were considered--how could that be done?--in the Supreme Court of the United States, and were fully sustained, when, in subsequent ye
Benjamnin F. Butler, Butler's Book: Autobiography and Personal Reminiscences of Major-General Benjamin Butler, Chapter 13: occupations in 1863; exchange of prisoners. (search)
work, the first time they are mustered for labor, in order that they may know why it is that they do not receive that kind and courteous treatment they have heretofore from the United States, as prisoners of war. Upon any attempt to escape by any of these prisoners so kept at work, they will be instantly shot. By command of Major-General Butler. [Official.] Ed. W. Smith, Assistant Adjutant-General. The succeeding day the order was exactly executed. The experiment was a success. October 20 General Lee officially notified General Grant that the negro prisoners had been withdrawn from the trenches and would be treated as prisoners of war, and thereupon an order See Appendix No. 8. was issued and they were released. This experiment was a success in another point of view, showing how readily the rebels under pressure can be converted to loyalty, as nearly, if not quite, all of them, being citizens of Richmond, offered to take the oath of allegiance if they could be release
Benjamnin F. Butler, Butler's Book: Autobiography and Personal Reminiscences of Major-General Benjamin Butler, Appendix. (search)
ll continue to make suggestions wherever and whenever I think the government may be aided by so doing, although not strictly called upon so to do, to complete my routine of duty. I am informed and believe that the rebel authorities will exchange every officer and soldier they now hold in custody, whether colored or not, upon receiving an equivalent number in rank from us. Indeed, I can put no other interpretation upon the letter of Robert Ould, Esq., agent of exchange in Richmond, of October 20, referring to a letter of a previous date, in which he says:-- More than a month ago I asked your acquiescence in a proposition that all officers and soldiers, on both sides, should be released in conformity with the provisions of the cartel. In order to obviate the difficulties between us, I suggested that all officers and men, on both sides, should be released, unless they were subject to charges, in which event the opposite government should have the right of holding one or more h