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Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight) 23 1 Browse Search
Edward Porter Alexander, Military memoirs of a Confederate: a critical narrative 20 0 Browse Search
William Tecumseh Sherman, Memoirs of General William T. Sherman . 17 9 Browse Search
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 22. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones) 6 0 Browse Search
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 31. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones) 6 0 Browse Search
Horace Greeley, The American Conflict: A History of the Great Rebellion in the United States of America, 1860-65: its Causes, Incidents, and Results: Intended to exhibit especially its moral and political phases with the drift and progress of American opinion respecting human slavery from 1776 to the close of the War for the Union. Volume II. 6 0 Browse Search
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 1. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones) 5 5 Browse Search
Benjamnin F. Butler, Butler's Book: Autobiography and Personal Reminiscences of Major-General Benjamin Butler 5 3 Browse Search
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 3. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones) 5 5 Browse Search
Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 1, Colonial and Revolutionary Literature: Early National Literature: Part I (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.) 4 0 Browse Search
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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)
I do not believe it existed on either side. Mr. Davis makes one assertion of fact which is very possibly true. It is based upon the statistical report of General Barnes, Surgeon-General of the United States Army, which I always believed to be erroneous, and which is now held so to be. In this report Barnes places the whole nuBarnes places the whole number of prisoners on the Union side at 270,000, and I believe that he is approximately correct, and that of the rebel prisoners at 260,000, instead of 220,000, as Davis puts it on the strength of General Barnes' estimate. Then Mr. Davis says that 26,000 of the rebel prisoners died in our hands, and only 20,000 of ours died in theGeneral Barnes' estimate. Then Mr. Davis says that 26,000 of the rebel prisoners died in our hands, and only 20,000 of ours died in the hands of the Confederates, making an aggregate death of twelve per cent. more of rebel prisoners than Union prisoners. I have an authority for the statement of the number of Confederate. prisoners held by us which would relieve substantially the imputation, but it is hardly necessary to go into such examination to do so. Can
Benjamnin F. Butler, Butler's Book: Autobiography and Personal Reminiscences of Major-General Benjamin Butler, Appendix. (search)
will give the navy in taking and holding the different positions deemed necessary (which should be named), the number and kind of transports requiring convoy and protection, where to and when. In a word, to give me such full and perfect information in writing as will enable the Navy Department fully to understand the nature of the service to be performed, to ascertain its ability to furnish the means needed, and to enable me to make timely professional dispositions. I send this by Fleet-Captain Barnes, my chief of staff, and solicit an early reply. I have the honor to be, General, respectfully yours, S. P. Lee, Acting Rear-Admiral, Com'g N. A. Blo'g Squadron. to Maj.-Gen. B. F. Butler, Commanding Dept. of Virginia and North Carolina, Fortress Monroe. [no. 22. see page 638.] [Confidential.] flag-Ship North Atlantic Blockading Squadron. Hampton Roads, Va., April 27, 1864. Received 8 P. M. General:--I received, late on the night of its date, your confidential communicatio