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Benjamnin F. Butler, Butler's Book: Autobiography and Personal Reminiscences of Major-General Benjamin Butler, Chapter 10: the woman order, Mumford's execution, etc. (search)
that my necessities, which caused the request for permission to use your house during your absence this summer, have been relieved. I have taken the house of General Twiggs, late of the United States army, for quarters. Inclined never on slight causes to use the power intrusted to me to grieve even sentiments only entitled to reptly and cheerfully followed by the planters and factors of the other States of the Confederacy, the same cotton factors made a petition to Governor Moore and General Twiggs to devise means to prevent any shipment of cotton to New Orleans whatever. For answer to this petition, Governor Moore issued a proclamation forbidding the bringing of cotton within the limits of the city, under the penalties therein prescribed. This action was concurred in by General Twiggs, then in command of the Confederate forces, and enforced by newspaper articles, published in the leading journals. This was one of the series of offensive measures which were undertaken by
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)
the independence of the Confederacy; and those governments and their officers did not scruple to take full advantage of Seward's timidity. After I had been relieved and had settled all my accounts with the government, so that not a dollar's difference stood between me and the government, suits were brought against me in New York, Baltimore, and elsewhere, to the amount of several hundred thousand dollars, for my acts during the war, or those done by my orders, even for the capture of General Twiggs' swords. All such suits have now been tried which the plaintiff would prosecute. These suits, by the law of military affairs, were to be defended by the government, and were so done by its law officers. I refused to have a single one settled. All were adjudicated in my favor; and not a dollar of a judgment has been rendered against the United States or myself in those suits. As all of them were against me as well as the government, and as the government could not defend itself
Benjamnin F. Butler, Butler's Book: Autobiography and Personal Reminiscences of Major-General Benjamin Butler, Chapter 13: occupations in 1863; exchange of prisoners. (search)
ets in the hands of slaves; after peculation the most prodigious, and lies the most infamous, he returns, reeking with crime, to his own people, and they receive him with acclamations of joy in a manner that befits him and becomes themselves. Nothing is out of keeping; his whole career and its rewards are strictly artistic in conception and in execution. He was a thief. A sword that he had stolen from a woman — the niece of the brave Twiggs —— was presented to him as a reward of valor. Twiggs' sword, being deposited in the treasury by me, after the war was returned to his daughter, although his reputed mistress, from whose possession it was taken, brought suit against me in New York for it, which I successfully defended. He had violated the laws of God and man. The law makers of the United States voted him thanks, and the preachers of the Yankee gospel of blood came to him and worshipped him. He had broken into the safes and strong boxes of merchants. The New York Chamber of Com<
Benjamnin F. Butler, Butler's Book: Autobiography and Personal Reminiscences of Major-General Benjamin Butler, Index. (search)
r Law, early history of contest, 90, 1090. Twenty-First Indiana Regiment, 481; 482; ought to have been sent to Galveston, 531. Twenty-Sixth Massachusetts, recruitment of, 306; on Ship Island at Fort St. Philip, 371, 467; cheers Butler leaving New Orleans, 533. Twenty-Fifth Virginia (city battalion), position near Richmond, 723. Twenty-Fourth Corps in Roanoke expedition,781. Twenty-Fourth Virginia cavalry, position near Richmond, 724. Twenty-Seventh Massachusetts, 898. Twiggs, General, evacuates New Orleans, 370; Butler occupies house of, 424; reference to, 431; his swords, 523; true story of his sword, 568; Lincoln recommends giving swords to Butler, 878-879. Tyler, Ex-President, in peace convention, 167; influences President Buchanan, 218. U United States of Columbia concedes land, 904. Ursuline Convent, 110-123; bill for relief of sufferers at brought by Butler, 113. Usher, Col. Roland G., warden of State prison, Massachusetts, 974. V Van Bure