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Benjamnin F. Butler, Butler's Book: Autobiography and Personal Reminiscences of Major-General Benjamin Butler, Chapter 11: military operations. (search)
eet. Thereupon he left directly, and seized Baton Rouge. Here we left some two thousand men, more because it was a healthy location than for any particular military usefulness. We concluded to make no fortification there. Farragut passed Port Hudson, where there were at that time no considerable defences. He had determined to look upon Vicksburg as the only place where a fortified stronghold was substantially possible for the protection of the surrounding country. The fleet accordingly aking the commissions from their line officers, which I had given them, and to brand their organizations with the stigma of a designation as a Corps d'afrique. Yet, in spite of his unwisdom, they did equal service and laid down their lives at Port Hudson in equal numbers comparatively with their white brothers in arms. Of the folly, injustice, and stupidity of this class of prejudice I may speak in describing the events of the campaign of 1864. I can now give a curious instance of the exhi
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)
he commander-in-chief, I went on with my business. I was then planning an expedition against Port Hudson, and arranging so that my troops should be in readiness for it as soon as I received the reinhe military situation of the department and the details of my plan for an immediate attack on Port Hudson, representing to him the necessity for the promptest action. As the nine months regiments ther the cover of the fleet, to ascend the river and take possession of the west shore opposite Port Hudson, in order to keep it from being furnished with further supplies. Now that there could be no ed that the rest of the army, including all old troops, should be sent at once in the rear of Port Hudson on the east bank, to prevent reinforcements and supplies being furnished to this fort by the Holabird, Colonel, Chief Quartermaster. I may remark here that no movement was made upon Port Hudson for many months,--not until the enemy had time to fortify it fully, and to reinforce it. The
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 between the commissioners of exchange on the part of the United States, and the rebel commissioner, Mr. Ould. This disagreement was substantially as to the number which had been determined and credited on either side, and in consequence of it all exchange of prisoners had ceased. The rebels were confessedly in debt to us in a balance of some eighteen thousand prisoners for whom they had given us no equivalent. Major-Generals Grant and Banks had paroled large numbers of prisoners at Port Hudson and Vicksburg. If they had been held as prisoners they could not have been put again into the Confederate service without a corresponding number being given us in exchange. The fact that these men were soon afterwards re-enlisted was claimed by us to be a breach of the cartel on the part of the Confederates. Meanwhile our prisoners, to the number of some thirteen thousand, were suffering and dying by cold and starvation in Richmond and elsewhere, while we held in our prisons some twent
Benjamnin F. Butler, Butler's Book: Autobiography and Personal Reminiscences of Major-General Benjamin Butler, Appendix. (search)
report, the only points on which I deem instructions necessary, are :-- 1st. Touching the validity of the paroles of the prisoners captured at Vicksburg and Port Hudson. 2d. The status of colored prisoners. As to the first. No arrangement for the exchange of prisoners will be acceded to that does not fully recognize themay be in our favor by virtue of these paroles. Until there is released to us an equal number of officers and men as were captured and paroled at Vicksburg and Port Hudson, not another Confederate prisoner of war will be paroled or exchanged. As to the second. No distinction whatever will be made in the exchange between white attempt, yet the path of duty was plain. Not so strong a work as Fort Fisher had been taken by assault during the war, and I had to guide me the experience of Port Hudson, with its slaughtered thousands in the repulsed assault, and the double assault of Fort Wagner, where thousands were sacrificed in an attempt to take a work les
Benjamnin F. Butler, Butler's Book: Autobiography and Personal Reminiscences of Major-General Benjamin Butler, Index. (search)
-530; receives information from Butler leaving New Orleans, 531-532; reference to by Seward, 535; paroles prisoners at Port Hudson and Vicksburg, 584; reference to, 629; quarrel with Hancock, 877. Barker, Jacob, advances money at New Orleans, 383leck's orders, 459; proposed junction with Curtis, 463; declared by Davis responsible for non-exchange of prisoners at Port Hudson and Vicksburg, 584; proposes to Butler to cease exchanging prisoners, 592, 595; forbids further exchange, 596; despatc 1858,123; defeated for governor in 1860, 149. Pope, Alex., 1001. Pope, General, 587; letter to Halleck, 460. Port Hudson, Butler advises Banks regarding, 531-532. Port Walthall Junction railroad destroyed, 645. Portsmouth, Union forcnt Mejan, 474; reports on Williams' position at Baton Rouge, 481; experience with colored troops, 496-500; man to take Port Hudson, 531; advises Butler, 642; reference to, 649; suggestion at Drury's Bluff, 658; division at Drury's Bluft, 658; made c