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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)
ted by our army. There is one episode in my life of the greatest possible interest and importance, not only to myself personally but to the whole country. It caused the deepest feeling and the most acrimonious discussion, and as the true history of it is necessary to be stated at some length, it may as well be done here as elsewhere, as it wholly disconnects itself from any subsequent phase of my history. Fortress Monroe was the point from which all exchange of prisoners, east of the Alleghanies, had been made during the disagreement 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 ha