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than on any previous day. It is much to be regretted that some of our own men, prisoners in Butler's hands, may be hurt by our own fire. He has now at hard labor in the canal, and exposed our fik from us; among whom is Major Henley, formerly commandant of the Third Virginia battalion, F. L. D. Butler says his treatment of these men is in retaliation for our having put a number of Yankee negwere they under fire or even within range of the Yankee guns. This is the whole story; and that Butler should pretend to retaliate for this, by exposing prisoners in his hands to the fire of our batt who arrived day before yesterday by flag of truce. They lay at City Point eleven days; and had Butler had his own way, they would not have been here yet; but Grant took the responsibility and sent them on to Richmond. Butler, it is said, grumbled at this as a usurpation of authority on the part of Grant, saying that he (the Beast) had been entrusted with the whole business of exchange, and
ce of our officers and soldiers who have been placed under fire at Dutch gap by Butler. The following is his order directing this barbarity: Headquarters Depa these prisoners so at work they will be instantly shot. By command of Major-General Butler. Ed. W. Smith, Assistant Adjutant-General. A letter, announcal forces. The following paragraph, in a letter to the New York Times from Butler's army, will assure the friends of the two citizens of Richmond named of their em expressed much chagrin at having committed so gross an error, and begged General Butler to believe they were not deserters. There was something very ludicrous in nd stove-pipe hat, and had his shoulders swathed in a dingy-white blanket. General Butler assured these poor old soldiers that they should be treated as prisoners ofoceeds of this assessment are to be applied, as a former similar one was by General Butler, to the relief of the poor of the city. A detachment of Union troops, who