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Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 1. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones) 48 0 Browse Search
Brigadier-General Ellison Capers, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 5, South Carolina (ed. Clement Anselm Evans) 38 2 Browse Search
Frederick H. Dyer, Compendium of the War of the Rebellion: Regimental Histories 31 21 Browse Search
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Benjamnin F. Butler, Butler's Book: Autobiography and Personal Reminiscences of Major-General Benjamin Butler 16 0 Browse Search
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 8. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones) 14 0 Browse Search
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 35. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones) 14 2 Browse Search
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Brig.-Gen. Bradley T. Johnson, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 2.1, Maryland (ed. Clement Anselm Evans) 14 0 Browse Search
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Benjamnin F. Butler, Butler's Book: Autobiography and Personal Reminiscences of Major-General Benjamin Butler, Chapter 13: occupations in 1863; exchange of prisoners. (search)
ficers and soldiers went on. During this delay the Confederate prisoners at Point Lookout were informed of the action of their authorities, and at my request, by the or naval service of the United States. Of the ten thousand prisoners at Point Lookout, two regiments of infantry were enlisted, and many recruits went into the nce boat which carried up Confederate prisoners in our hands, I sent up from Point Lookout some four hundred and odd prisoners, being the wounded and sick Confederatepersonal knowledge of the condition of the rebel prisoners of war except at Point Lookout, where I had from twelve to fifteen thousand under my immediate charge fromlemen of my staff. In December, 1863, I made two personal inspections at Point Lookout of the condition of the rebel prisoners of war. I went into their camp, whiFrom that hour I never had a complaint of the treatment of the prisoners at Point Lookout, although many hundreds passed through Fortress Monroe on their way to be e
Benjamnin F. Butler, Butler's Book: Autobiography and Personal Reminiscences of Major-General Benjamin Butler, Appendix. (search)
Virginia and North Carolina, Army of the James. In the field, Va., Oct. 20, 1864. General Order No. 134. It having been officially certified by General Lee, commanding Confederate forces, that the prisoners of war of this army put to work in the trenches near Fort Gilmer have been withdrawn, to be treated as prisoners of war, 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 hereafter as prisoners of war. Numbers of these prisoners having certified in writing to the commanding general their desire to take the oath of allegiance, because of the inhumanity of the Confederate authorities towards them, which application was declined lest it should be said that these prisoners took the oath of allegiance to the United States under duress, it is now ordered, that so many of them as choose, after this order is read to them, be permitted t
Benjamnin F. Butler, Butler's Book: Autobiography and Personal Reminiscences of Major-General Benjamin Butler, Index. (search)
utler visitor at West Point, 127; makes Davis Secretary of War, 140; persuades law partner not to enlist, 303-304: reference to, 982; son killed, 1020; asks Butler to defend railroad, 1021; the suit, 1021-1026. Pierce, Mrs., the piety of, 1021. Pierce, Henry B., reminds Butler of Fast Day proclamation, 970. Plymouth, N. C., occupied by Union forces, 617; captured, 636. Plymton, N. A., Esq., Butler's efforts in behalf of, 975. Point of Rocks, Butler builds hospital, 847. Point Lookout, condition of rebel prisoners at, 612-613. Pomeroy, M. M., gives publicity to spoon story, 43. Politics, early interest in, 77, 85; principles governing belief, 86; defeated for legislature in 11850, 106; elected to legislature in 1852, 110; delegate to four national conventions, 123; defeated for Congress, 123; elected to State Senate in 1858,123; defeated for governor in 1860, 149. Pope, Alex., 1001. Pope, General, 587; letter to Halleck, 460. Port Hudson, Butler advises