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The Daily Dispatch: December 25, 1863., [Electronic resource], The capture of New Orleans — McClellan's Orders to Gen. Butler. (search)
The capture of New Orleans — McClellan's Orders to Gen. Butler. The following is from the New York Journal of Commerce: Mason Brothers, of New York, have published Mr. Parton's history of Gen. Butler in New Orleans, containing much new matter. It seems that Gen. McClellan is entitled to the credit for laying down the plan of operations in the Southwest, and if Gen. Butler had done all that he was ordered to do we should have had a very different story from there. Gen. McClellan's Gen. McClellan's genius and foresight are admirably exhibited in the orders under which Gen. Butler went to New Orleans, and whatever credit is due to military operations there clearly belongs to the young Commander in-Chief. The following are the orders: Hey commanders in your vicinity, never losing sight of the fact that the great object to be achieved is the capture and firm retention of New Orleans. Very respectfully, your obedient serv't, George B. McClellan, Major-Gen. Commanding, &c., &c.