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Adam Badeau, Military history of Ulysses S. Grant from April 1861 to April 1865. Volume 3 309 19 Browse Search
Adam Badeau, Military history of Ulysses S. Grant from April 1861 to April 1865. Volume 2 309 19 Browse Search
General Horace Porter, Campaigning with Grant 170 20 Browse Search
J. B. Jones, A Rebel War Clerk's Diary 117 33 Browse Search
Comte de Paris, History of the Civil War in America. Vol. 2. (ed. Henry Coppee , LL.D.) 65 11 Browse Search
Edward Porter Alexander, Military memoirs of a Confederate: a critical narrative 62 2 Browse Search
Comte de Paris, History of the Civil War in America. Vol. 1. (ed. Henry Coppee , LL.D.) 36 2 Browse Search
William Tecumseh Sherman, Memoirs of General William T. Sherman . 34 12 Browse Search
Fitzhugh Lee, General Lee 29 3 Browse Search
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 2. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones) 29 3 Browse Search
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The Daily Dispatch: December 18, 1863., [Electronic resource], How Gen. Fite Lee was sent North. (search)
How Gen. Fite Lee was sent North. --A Yankee paper says that Beast Butler, in his first walk at Fortress Monroe, was astonished at meeting a rebel officer looking at a parade. It was Gen. Fitz Hugh Lee. On being told that he enjoyed the liberty of Old Point, Butler sharply expressed his disapproval of such a reprehensible courtesy. The next day Lee made a voyage to Fort Lafayette. How Gen. Fite Lee was sent North. --A Yankee paper says that Beast Butler, in his first walk at Fortress Monroe, was astonished at meeting a rebel officer looking at a parade. It was Gen. Fitz Hugh Lee. On being told that he enjoyed the liberty of Old Point, Butler sharply expressed his disapproval of such a reprehensible courtesy. The next day Lee made a voyage to Fort Lafayette.
The Daily Dispatch: December 18, 1863., [Electronic resource], Matters in Norfolk. (search)
Matters in Norfolk. We have received a copy of the "Old Dominion" newspaper, containing some intelligence from Norfolk of interest. Butler has put his engine in order for work by the appointment of a number of officers to sit as a "military commission" for the trial of persons whom he shall arrest. The Beast was in the citnt of loyal Virginians" in Norfolk and Portsmouth. A meeting was held in Portsmouth, at which "Lieut. Gov." Cowper was the chief speaker. He was authorized by Gen. Butler to say that H men enlisted in this regiment he (Butler) would take special care that their families were supported, and that the regiment should never go out ofButler) would take special care that their families were supported, and that the regiment should never go out of the department. There is great mortality among the negro troops; and the Macon House, once a well known hotel in Portsmouth, has been converted into a hospital for them. Regiments of negroes, numbering at their organization 1,000, are now reduced to six hundred. Those is North Carolina have suffered as severely. Wm. R