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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)
n by an exhibition of my fears, so that all sorts of tentative experiments were made on me. When the report came that McClellan had been captured, I happened to be at Baton Rouge. Upon its reception there was, as nearly as by any possibility there could be, an attempt to start a riot in New Orleans. One man, a German bookseller, displayed in his windows a skeleton with a large label, Chickahominy, on it, and told my soldiers who inquired about it that it was a Yankee skeleton from Chickahominy. Arrest of Mrs. Larue at New Orleans. One Andrew, a cousin of my friend the Governor of Massachusetts, a high-toned gentleman (?), presented himself in the Louisiana Club with a breast-pin constructed of a thigh-bone of a Yankee killed on the Chickahominy, as he said. A young woman, blonde and blue-eyed, wearing flowing silken curls and Confederate colors, white and red, was sent down St. Charles Street, at high noon, with a quantity of handbills containing the particulars of th
-General, headquarters armies of the Confederate States: Sir:--Will you please bring to the immediate attention of General Bragg a cause which is producing great discontent among the troops of my command. It appears that to the troops of the Army of Northern Virginia, the ration issued is very much larger than the same given to my troops, although they are doing the same duty. For instance, Kirkland's brigade, Army of Northern Virginia, is guarding the York River Railroad bridge over Chickahominy, and the local troops are performing the same service at Bottom's Bridge; the former receive a half pound of meat, flour bread (at least, in part), rice, pease, sugar, coffee, and vegetables; the local troops get but one-fifth pound of meat, and corn bread. If they receive sugar and coffee (only six pounds of one and three of the other to 100 rations) the meat is stopped. The same exists as to all my command. It very naturally and justly produces discontent. If the rations can be incr
es funds from Butler, 520; Lincoln persuades him to withdraw resignation, 537; presidential aspirations of, 631-633; letter in regard to bonds, 936; reply, 936; three year seven-thirty treasury notes, 937; report on finance, 948; in the Farragut prize case, 1010-1012. Chattanooga, battle of, reference to, 715. Chemistry, Butler's study of, at Waterville, 58-59. Chesapeake Bay, expedition into, 617; transport fleet in, 785. Chicago, Schaffer in, 895; the currency in, 943. Chickahominy River, Colonel West drives enemy from, 645. child, Linus, interview with regarding ten-hour ticket in Lowell, 103. Chittenden tests the law on greenbacks 954-956. Choate, Hon., Rufus, quoted 33, tribute to, 64; partner of Major Bell, 526; in the Storm King Scurvy case, 1018-1020. Cilley, Abigail, grandmother of Benj. F. Butler, 41; adopted by, 48-49. Cilley, Gen., Joseph, great-grandfather of Benj. F. Butler, 41. Cincinnati Gazette, market reports of, 940. Cincinnati Pla