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oints bearing upon the channels leading inland. Defensive works were erected at all important points along the coast. Many of the defenses, being injudiciously located and hastily erected, offered but little resistance to the enemy when attacked. These defeats were not surprising, when we take into consideration the inexperience of the engineers, and the long line of seacoast to be defended. As soon as a sufficient naval force had been collected, an expedition under the command of General B. F. Butler was sent to the coast of North Carolina, and captured several important points. A second expedition, under Admiral Dupont and General Thomas W. Sherman, was sent to make a descent on the coast of South Carolina. On the 7th of November Dupont attacked the batteries that were designed to defend Port Royal harbor, as stated above, and almost without resistance carried them and gained possession of Port Royal. This is the best harbor in South Carolina, and is the strategic key to all t
ksburg, but especially it deprived the enemy of any pretext for bombarding the town and sacrificing the lives of the women and children. It appears that General Lovell called for ten thousand volunteers from the citizens, but failed to get them. There were many river steamboats at the landing, and if the volunteers called for were intended to man these boats and board the enemy's fleet before their land forces could arrive, it cannot be regarded as utterly impracticable. The report of General Butler shows that he worked his way through one of the bayous in rear of Fort St. Philip to the Mississippi River above the forts so as to put himself in communication with the fleet at the city, and to furnish Commodore Farragut with ammunition. From this it is to be inferred that the fleet was deficient in ammunition, and the fact would have rendered boarding from river boats the most likely to succeed. In this connection it may be remembered that, during the war, John Taylor Wood, Colonel
, continued Farragut demands the surrender of New Orleans reply of the mayor United States flag hoisted advent of General Butler antecedents of the people Galveston its surrender demanded another visit of the enemy's fleet appointment of Gen some marines remained at the customhouse to guard the United States flag hoisted over it until the land forces under General Butler arrived. On May 1st General Butler took possession of the defenseless city; then followed the reign of terror, pillaGeneral Butler took possession of the defenseless city; then followed the reign of terror, pillage, and a long train of infamies too disgraceful to be remembered without a sense of shame by anyone who is proud of the name American. Had the population of New Orleans been vagrant and riotous, the harsh measures adopted might have been excused,their atrocities were such as shocked the common sense of humanity; if any one shall inquire minutely into the conduct of Butler and his followers at New Orleans, he will find there a history yet more revolting. Soon thereafter, on May 17, 1862, C
attempt in Louisiana martial law barbarities inflicted invasion of plantations order of General Butler execution of Mumford judicial system set up civil affairs administered by military author of New Orleans on May 1, 1862. The United States forces were under the command of Major General Benjamin F. Butler. Martial law was declared, and Brigadier General George F. Shepley was appointed ms known of the refusal of any one of them to participate in the outrages. The order of Major General Butler to which reference is made above was as follows: headquarters, Department of the Ged and held liable to be treated as a woman about town plying her vocation. By command of Major-General Butler. This order was issued on May 15, 1862, and known as General Order No. 28. Another On December 15, 1862, Major General N. P. Banks took command of the military forces, and Major General Butler retired. The military governor, early in August, had attempted to set on foot a judicial
atever but the people of Louisiana; not the strangers, not the slaves, but the manhood that knew its rights and dared to maintain them. Under what principles, then, could a citizen of Massachusetts, whether clothed in regimental or a civilian's dress, come into Louisiana and attempt to set up a state government? Under no principles, but only by the power of the invader and the usurper. If the true principles of a republican government had prevailed and could have been enforced when Major General Butler appeared at New Orleans, he would have been hanged on the first lamppost, and his successor, Major General Banks, would have been hanged on the second. Under what principles, then, could the government of the United States appear in Louisiana and attempt to institute a state government? As has been said above, it was the act of an invader and a usurper. Yet it proposed to institute a republican state government. The absurdity of such intention is too manifest to need argument.
olonel Bradley T. Johnson, who hung close upon his rear, finally reached the defenses of Richmond. There, out of respect to the field artillery he encountered, he turned off to cross the Chickahominy, and that night he was routed by the cavalry command of our gallant cavalier General Wade Hampton. Thus ended the combined movement with which Northern papers had regaled their readers by announcing as made with instructions to sack the rebel capital. During the first week in May, Major General B. F. Butler landed at Bermuda Hundred with a considerable force, and moved up so as to cut the telegraph line and reach by a raiding party the railroad at Chester, between Richmond and Petersburg. General Ransom, then in command of the defenses at Richmond and those of Drewry's Bluff, with a small force attacked the advance of General Butler, and after a sharp skirmish compelled him to withdraw. Meantime, because of the warning which Stuart had sent, General Ransom was summoned to Richmond
ition of Lee to Grant reply of Grant his dispatch to General Butler another proposition made by us proposition relative to Washington a failure correspondence between Ould and Butler order of Grant report of Butler responsibility of GrantButler responsibility of Grant for Andersonville barbarities of the United States government treatment of our men in Northern prisons Deaths on each siorted to have been murdered at New Orleans by Major General Benjamin F. Butler, and of Colonel John Owens, reported to have he occupation of New Orleans by the forces under General Benjamin F. Butler, when said Mumford was an unresisting and noncomthe government of the United States and its maintenance of Butler in high office, under its authority, afforded evidence toolast of March, 1864, I had several conferences with General B. F. Butler, then agent of exchange at Fortress Monroe, in relaregard to the failure in the exchange of prisoners, General B. F. Butler has irrefutably fixed the responsibility on the gov
James River, repaired his losses, and must have increased the numerical disparity between the two armies; yet, notwithstanding the great superiority in the number of his force, the long-projected movement for the reduction of Fort Fisher and the capture of Wilmington was delayed because of Grant's unwillingness to detach any of his troops for that purpose until after active operations had been suspended before Petersburg. It was proposed to make a combined land and naval attack—Major General B. F. Butler to command the land forces, and Admiral D. D. Porter the fleet. The enemy seems about this time to have conceived a new means of destroying forts; it was, to place a large amount of powder in a ship, and having anchored off the fort, to explode the powder and so destroy the works and incapacitate the garrison as to enable a storming party to capture them. How near Fort Fisher it was expected to anchor the ship I do not know, nor have I learned how far it was supposed the open at
o, having the power to check these outrages on humanity, numerous and well authenticated as they have been, have not yet in a single instance, of which I am aware, inflicted punishment on the wrong-doers. Since my last communication to you, one General McNeil murdered seven prisoners of war in cold blood, and the demand for his punishment has remained unsatisfied. The Government of the United States, after promising examination and explanation in relation to the charges made against General B. F. Butler, has, by its subsequent silence, after repeated efforts on my part to obtain some answer on the subject, not only admitted his guilt, but sanctioned it by acquiescence. . . . Recently I have received apparently authentic intelligence of another general by the name of Milroy, who has issued orders in West Virginia for the payment of money to him by the inhabitants, accompanied by the most savage threats of shooting every recusant, besides burning his house, and threatening similar atro
Rufus,W. 632. Burnside, Gen. Ambrose E., 64, 269, 294, 295, 298, 300, 357, 358, 365, 421, 436, 438. Mining of Confederate fort at Petersburg, 545-47. Butler, General (Confederate), 538, 539. Gen. Benjamin F., 64, 187, 251, 414, 423, 426, 427, 428-29, 430, 432, 499, 500, 501, 506, 513, 541,547, 600. Conduct in New Orleans,des (warship), 175. New Market, Battle of, 444-45. New Orleans, La. Harbor defense, 177-79, 180-82, 183, 186, 187. Evacuation, 182, 188-89. Occupation, by Butler, 195. New York. Subversion of state government, 402-15. Suspension of writ of habeas corpus, 409-11. Nichols, Maj., George Ward. Description of Federal lop), 217-18. Orr, —, 626. Osterhaus, General, 39. Ould, Robert C., 500, 504, 510, 513, 515. Attempt to relieve condition of prisoners, 506. Negotiations with Butler concerning exchange of prisoners, 506-08. Offer to purchase medicine for U. S. prisoners, 509. Owasoo (gunboat), 196. Owens, Col., John, 499. P Palme