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Benjamnin F. Butler, Butler's Book: Autobiography and Personal Reminiscences of Major-General Benjamin Butler, Chapter 18: why I was relieved from command. (search)
truce officers received an immense quantity of letters with money accompanying them to pay their postage to their Dismal Swamp Canal. From Photographs. 1. Deep Creek lock. 2. West Weir at Deep Creek. 3. village of Deep Creek. 4. Canal. destination within the Confederate lines. I saw an opportunity to pay the expenses ofDeep Creek. 3. village of Deep Creek. 4. Canal. destination within the Confederate lines. I saw an opportunity to pay the expenses of the office by collecting these stamps and exchanging our money and stamps for Confederate money or stamps with which to pay Confederate postage to our prisoners. I employed three clerks, paid them out of that fund, and in addition to that I turned over three thousand dollars extra postage, saved by the difference between our posDeep Creek. 4. Canal. destination within the Confederate lines. I saw an opportunity to pay the expenses of the office by collecting these stamps and exchanging our money and stamps for Confederate money or stamps with which to pay Confederate postage to our prisoners. I employed three clerks, paid them out of that fund, and in addition to that I turned over three thousand dollars extra postage, saved by the difference between our postage currency and Confederate currency. Now what did I do with the money thus gained,--not one cent of which came out of the treasury of the United States? I paid largely the expenses of digging Dutch Gap Canal; I built a hospital at Point of Rocks and furnished it with gas and water, and with cows for milk, and I expended a p