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Benjamnin F. Butler, Butler's Book: Autobiography and Personal Reminiscences of Major-General Benjamin Butler, Appendix. (search)
er of war. Abraham Lincoln. Believing that this atrocity has been perpetrated without your knowledge, and that you will take prompt steps to disavow this violation of the usages of war, and to bring the offenders to justice, I shall refrain from executing a rebel soldier until I learn your action in the premises. I am, very respectfully, your obedient servant, John J. Peck, Major-General. [Inclosuire no. 2.] headquarters Army and district of North Carolina, New Berne, N. C., Feb. 13, 1864. Major-General Pickett, Department of Virginia and North Carolina, Confederate Army : General:--I have the honor to enclose a list of fifty-three soldiers of the U. S. Government who are supposed to have fallen into your hands on your late hasty retreat from before New Berne. They are loyal and true North Carolinians, and duly enlisted in the Second North Carolina Infantry. I ask for them the same treatment in all respects as you will mete out to other prisoners of war. I am, ver