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William Hepworth Dixon, White Conquest: Volume 2, Chapter 3: White reaction. (search)
Rifles, hastily landed from a steamer, were distributed, and General Ogden, an old campaigner, took the chief command. The enemies whom General Ogden might have to face were three: first, General Badger and the metropolitan police; second, General Longstreet and the State miless. Should he be left to deal with Badger and his Negro regiment, Ogden supposed that fifteen or twenty minutes would suffice to settle the and discharging their pieces as they came along. Fire! cried Ogden. The citizens fired, and Badger dropt from his horse-supposed to be killed. Charge! cried Ogden. The citizens charged, and the Negroes, surprised by bayonets, broke and fled. Captain Angel led his cps. Of Badger's force, thirty were killed and thirty wounded; of Ogden's force, twelve were killed and thirteen wounded. Guns, arms, and stores were captured, and a hundred prisoners remained in Ogden's hands. At dusk the City Hall, with the whole town, except the State House a
William Hepworth Dixon, White Conquest: Volume 2, Chapter 7: banditti (search)
ing! If President Grant will leave Sheridan as free to act in Louisiana, as he left him free to act in the Blue Ridge valleys and the Peigan hunting-grounds, my dashing neighbour sees his way to square accounts with such opponents as Wiltz and Ogden, McEnery and Penn. I know these people well, he says, having lived with them in other times, when they were wilder than they are to-day. I have no doubt about my course. The White League must be trodden down. They are a bad lot: mere bandittiBlack leaguer may be brother in offence to a White leaguer. No longer of opinion that a proclamation by President Grant is sufficient, Sheridan now asks the ministers to get an Act of Congress passed, giving him authority to hang such men as General Ogden and Captain Angel, Governor McEnery and Lieutenant-governor Penn. Banditti! How the word appears to leap on every lip and blister every tongue! Banditti? We banditti? We, the proudest gentlemen and noblest gentlewomen in America, branded
William Hepworth Dixon, White Conquest: Volume 2, Chapter 8: the Conservatives. (search)
se gentlemen are right or wrong in their special claims, they will not be easily beaten from the ground they once take up. General McEnery is a small man, something like President Grant in face, with meditative eyes, and dreamy features, half-concealed by thick whiskers and heavy moustache. General Penn is younger than his chief; a typical Southern man, with shaven chin, black eyes and eyebrows, and a penthouse of moustache; in accent and appearance the embodiment of fighting power. General Ogden has a round head, set on a sturdy frame; a prompt and ready man, not troubled, one might say, by doubts and scruples as to where his duty lies. All three are gentlemen of property. We claim, says General McEnery, to represent ninety-five per cent. of all the property in this city, ninety-eight per cent. of all the property in this State. From what we learn in other quarters we have reason to believe this statement true. And yet, adds Penn, laughing, we, who own nearly all the prope
William Hepworth Dixon, White Conquest: Volume 2, Chapter 9: Governor Warmoth. (search)
noured by a card from leaders of fashion in New Orleans. This difference is at once his merit and his curse. Society has brought him into friendly intercourse with men as stern in their Conservatism as McEnery and Penn. Wiltz has received him; Ogden has visited him in jail. By his charm of manner and his moderation of view, Warmoth has half-reconciled the upper classes to his presence in their town. But his successes on a ground forbidden to his comrades, fill the scalawag ranks with furrers, and more than two thousand citizens march behind his hearse. No. one pretends to think the worse of General Warmoth for having killed a man. His prison is a court, his visiting-book filled with famous names. McEnery calls on him in jail. Ogden and Penn are no less courteous, and Speaker Wiltz pays him a formal visit. Five hundred citizens go to see him in a single day. Never has Warmoth found himself so popular. Nobody holds him guilty of the blood so lately shed, and when the charge
William Hepworth Dixon, White Conquest: Volume 2, Chapter 11: the Rotunda. (search)
, politics, and business, and the corridors boom with voices, like the uproar of a stormy sea. To-night the scene in our Rotunda is a sight. General Sheridan, dressed in plain clothes, is standing near a shaft, puffing his cigar, and chatting with his friends. Is it design or accident, his standing with his back against that shaft, so that his person is covered from assault except in front? About him fret and seethe a crowd of citizens, many of them bearing proud, historic names. General Ogden is here, General Taylor is here, and General Penn is here. The lame man pushing through the crowd is General Badger, now recovering from his wounds. The gentlemen near Sheridan, also in plain clothes, are General Emory and Colonel Sheridan, a younger brother of the chief. Banditti! How the Southern fire darts out, the Southern pride expands, as Senator and General cross the hall, restrained alike by courtesy and policy from rushing on the man who calls them outlaws and is only waiting