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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)
w Orleans during that summer, save that the continual bad news from the army of McClellan on the peninsula made them afraid that the Union control of New Orleans would be short; and that view of the war was fostered continually by telegrams from Richmond giving the most glorious accounts of the destruction of McClellan's army. The rebels had telegraphic communication from Richmond to a point within forty miles of the city on the opposite side of Lake Pontchartrain, and thence by the use of fishRichmond to a point within forty miles of the city on the opposite side of Lake Pontchartrain, and thence by the use of fishing-boats, spies, and secret communications, generally known as the grapevine telegraph, the news came to the rebels. To me, no authentic information came from Washington or the North under fifteen days, and newspapers were eight and ten days old when I received them. On the 25th of June a despatch came from Richmond via grapevine, which was believed by all the secessionists, that McClellan with forty thousand men had been captured and carried into Richmond. Shortly afterwards another despa
Benjamnin F. Butler, Butler's Book: Autobiography and Personal Reminiscences of Major-General Benjamin Butler, Chapter 13: occupations in 1863; exchange of prisoners. (search)
t operation, save that the enemy by giving us our wounded and sick in their hands, we retaining all the rebel sick and wounded in ours, burdened us with the care and cost of all the sick and wounded of both sides, an operation of which it is difficult to see the strategic value, and is only to be defended because of its humanity in rescuing our wounded from the destitution and suffering permitted to them by the Confederates. Nothing further was done with the exchange save to receive from Richmond such sick and wounded as they delivered to us, till the 15th of August, when I received a note from Major Mulford, assistant agent of exchange, from which the following is extracted:-- The Confederate authorities will exchange prisoners on the basis heretofore proposed by our government, that is, man for man. This proposition was proposed formally to me after I saw you. Shall I come to you before I arrange to go up river again for wounded? I intend to leave there Wednesday morning unles
Benjamnin F. Butler, Butler's Book: Autobiography and Personal Reminiscences of Major-General Benjamin Butler, Chapter 14: in command of the Army of the James. (search)
lthy one. Supplies could always come up the river from the North by water, and the enormous cost of supplying the army through the sixty odd miles of march by land from Washington to Richmond would be saved. On the 1st day of April, General Grant came down to Fortress Monroe to consult with me as to the campaign against the rebel capital. It was the first time I ever met him. I showed him my maps of the department and also of the lay of the land around Richmond. I showed him also that Richmond was by no means as strongly fortified on the south side as it had been on the north, and that the country surrounding it on the south side was high, healthy land suitable for campaigning. But whether it was determined to make the attack on the north side of the James or on the south, Bermuda and City Point should be used as a base of operations. City Point on the opposite side of the peninsula, which was known as Bermuda Hundred, needed to be fortified and held as a depot for the navy and