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Benjamnin F. Butler, Butler's Book: Autobiography and Personal Reminiscences of Major-General Benjamin Butler, Chapter 12: administration of finances, politics, and justice.--recall. (search)
Secretary found half his time engrossed with these questions. He determined that it would be wise to establish some tribunal at New Orleans to examine and decide upon them. . . . It had become necessary to constitute a Provisional Court. Charles A. Peabody of New York was appointed the Provisional Judge, and vested with full jurisdiction, his judgment to be final and conclusive. . . . While General Butler was the military commander, he had enforced order, maintained quiet, and adopted praisreme Court, and were all sustained, as we have seen, not because the court could not adjudicate differently, but because they decided that I had judged rightly. The order for Peabody's Court did not come down to New Orleans until Banks came. Peabody was neither a military nor a civil officer known to the Constitutional Laws of the United States. He was a New York pet of Seward, but I must do him the justice to say from what I saw of him, he was an enormous improvement upon Reverdy Johnson,
Benjamnin F. Butler, Butler's Book: Autobiography and Personal Reminiscences of Major-General Benjamin Butler, Index. (search)
30; suspected of being in league with Booth, 930; no reliable evidence against, 930-931; Alabama claims in administration of, 962, 966. Johnson, Reverdy, secures Ross Winan's release, 234; made commissioner of claims at New Orleans, 522, 525; Peabody improvement on, 536. Johnson, Gen., Bushrod, reference to, 649. Johnston, Gen., Joe, at Bull Run, 292-293; official report of, 333; Sherman's negotiations with, 876; reference to, 901; terms of surrender revoked by the President, 909; termnfederate gunboats, 751; court-martialed, 752. Parson, Lieutenant, in Roanoke Expedition, 781. Parton, Jas., 985. Paterson, Rev. Robert B., president Waterville College, 69. Patterson, General, at Harper's Ferry, 293. Peabody, Chas. A., provisional judge at New Orleans, 535-536. Peck, General, reference to, 619, 635. Pegram's Battery, 701. Pendleton, of Ohio, views on finance, 932. People's Bank of Kentucky, H. J. Lyon's connection with, 764; a financial agent of Jeff D