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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)
t. The proclamation also threatened that no officer would be paroled until I was punished by hanging. Yet the parole went on in all the armies precisely as though the proclamation had never been published. And when in Virginia, in 1864, a portion of my colored troops raised in Virginia were captured and put by Lee into the trenches to work on the rebel fortifications, I wrote him a note stating that if they were not immediately taken out and treated as prisoners of war, I would put in Dutch Gap to work, under the fire of the rebels, the Virginia reserves whom I had captured, who were highly respectable gentlemen of Richmond, over sixty years of age. It is needless to say that afterwards the negroes were treated as prisoners of war. Jefferson Davis did not believe one word of the proclamation himself. That is evinced by the fact that while that document declared me to be utterly vile and a felon, yet he treats me quite differently in his Rise and fall of the Confederate gove
Benjamnin F. Butler, Butler's Book: Autobiography and Personal Reminiscences of Major-General Benjamin Butler, Chapter 13: occupations in 1863; exchange of prisoners. (search)
by the Government of the United States. Being assured by General Ewell, commanding Confederate forces on the north side of the James, that an answer to this communication, if any, would be sent by 11 o'clock A. M., to-day and it being now past 12 (noon) and no answer having been received, It is ordered: That an equal number of prisoners of war, preferably members of the Virginia reserves, by and under whose charge this outrage is being carried on, be set to work in the excavation at Dutch Gap, and elsewhere along the trenches, as may hereafter seem best, in retaliation for this unjust treatment of the soldiers of the United States so kept at labor and service by the Confederate authorities. It being also testified to by the same witnesses, that the rations served to the soldiers of the United States so at labor is one pound of flour and one third of a pound of bacon daily, it is ordered that the same ration precisely be served to these Confederate prisoners so kept at work,
Benjamnin F. Butler, Butler's Book: Autobiography and Personal Reminiscences of Major-General Benjamin Butler, Chapter 16: capture of fortifications around Richmond, Newmarket Heights, Dutch Gap Canal, elections in New York and gold conspiracy. (search)
d and fifty (450) men for duty, with its pickets advanced beyond Cox's overseer's house toward Dutch Gap, holding the line nearly three quarters of a mile beyond that point to a point near the Varinach he might ascend the James with his vessels, which were then lying below at the point called Dutch Gap, to the defences of Richmond. Here is a peculiar formation: The river running up by Trent'sly about four hundred and twenty-five feet from the water on the upper side across the neck at Dutch Gap to twenty-five feet of water on the lower side. So a canal wide and deep enough for our gunboe premises. This they did, and made a very careful exploration of the point. It was known as Dutch Gap for the reason that some enterprising German had cut down quite a gap in undertaking to build ence was changed to a lighter punishment by Gideon Welles, who thought cowardice excusable. Dutch Gap has since been dredged out, and is the main channel of commerce between Richmond and the outer
Benjamnin F. Butler, Butler's Book: Autobiography and Personal Reminiscences of Major-General Benjamin Butler, Appendix. (search)
it is ordered, that the prisoners of war of the Confederate forces put to work in the canal at Dutch Gap, in retaliation, shall be at once withdrawn and sent to Point Lookout, to be held and treated er, in the event of such an alarm, would be very serious. I would suggest Trent's Reach, or Dutch Gap, as a good location for such obstructions. I do not see clearly how such a movement can be l corps in operation along James River. I would respectfully suggest that the occupation of Dutch Gap, which is high and narrow, could be a great advantage to us, and that a body of skirmishers, t Atlantic Block. Squad. P. S. 4 P. M. The rebel artillery has appeared on the heights at Dutch Gap. S. P. Lee, Acting Rear-Admiral. [no. 47. see page 651.] Washington, D. C., May 13, 1864, hdraw from north of the James, you abandon all of your present lines except at Deep Bottom and Dutch Gap. Just occupy what you did prior to the movement which secured our present position. Preparat
Benjamnin F. Butler, Butler's Book: Autobiography and Personal Reminiscences of Major-General Benjamin Butler, Index. (search)
th Hancock, 877. Barker, Jacob, advances money at New Orleans, 383. Barnard, General, reference to, 666; examines Dutch Gap, 744; approves cutting Dutch Gap Canal, 747; examines Butler's Department, 832; in Grant's personal Memoirs, 856; origiurprising fortifications, 721; at Fort Harrison, 734, 735, 736; returns to City Point, 736; reference to, 738; examines Dutch Gap, 744; directs Butler to dig canal at Dutch Gap, 744; desires to use canal, 750; visited by Butler on way to Fortress MoDutch Gap, 744; desires to use canal, 750; visited by Butler on way to Fortress Monroe, 752; telegram from Butler, 753; urges the return of troops sent to New York, 773; complimentary telegram to Stanton, 771; reference to, as Lincoln's successor, 773; proposes a reconnoissance of Fort Fisher, 774; quoted upon the Wilmington expeodist Church divided by slavery question, 143. Mexican War, Grant in, 868. Michie, Maj. Peter S., directs work at Dutch Gap, 747. Military Training, Butler's, 123,125. Military Commission defined, 842-843; Butler suggests that Davis be t