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Benjamin F. Butler (search for this): chapter 24
es of achieving national independence. General Butler was soon inaugurated as the autocratic rulnfederate leaders within our borders. General Butler's order 28. Head Quarters Department of Guneral Butler. George C. Strong, A. A. G. Butler's government in New Orleans, and his assaults ay, to avoid either avowal or disavowal of General Butler's cruel course in the execution of an inno the United States and its maintaining of said Butler in high office under its authority for many mo said Government sanctions the conduct of said Butler, and is determined that he shall remain unpuni name, do pronounce and declare the said Benjamin F. Butler to be a felon, deserving of capital puniissioned officers in the command of said Benjamin F. Butler be declared not entitled to be considere non-commissioned officers in the army of said Butler be considered as only the instruments used fore T3th, Lord Carnarvon called attention to General Butler's proclamation relative to the ladies of N[2 more...]
1862 AD (search for this): chapter 24
ws of the said States. Fourth. That the like orders be executed in all cases with respect to all commissioned officers of the United States, when found serving in company with armed slaves in insurrection against the authorities of the different States of this Confederacy. In testimony whereof I have signed these presents and caused the seal of the Confederate States of America to be affixed thereto, at the city of Richmond, on this 23d day of December, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-two. Jefferson Davis. In the House of Lords, on the T3th, Lord Carnarvon called attention to General Butler's proclamation relative to the ladies of New Orleans, and condemned it in severe terms as without precedent in the annals of war. He asked if the Government had information of its authenticity, and if it had protested against it. He also asked if there was any truth in the rumors of the mediation of France and England. The success of such mediation would
May 15th, 1862 AD (search for this): chapter 24
from the Mint, of which act he was innocent, and in issuing Order no. 28, excited strong resentment not only in the South, but in the North and abroad, but does not properly come within the scope of a biography of the President of the Confederacy. The moral effect of his infamous Order no. 28 was great, and reconciled whomsoever might have differed from the policy of the Confederate leaders within our borders. General Butler's order 28. Head Quarters Department of Gulf, New Orleans, May 15, 1862. As officers and soldiers of the United States have been subject to repeated insults from women calling themselves ladies of New Orleans, in return for the most scrupulous non-interference and courtesy on our part, it is ordered hereafter, when any female shall, by mere gesture or movement, insult or show contempt for any officers or soldiers of the United States, she shall be regarded and held liable to be treated as a woman about town plying her avocation. By command of Major-Gene
December 5th, 1861 AD (search for this): chapter 24
They knew that we were still masters of the river south of Fort Pillow, and they believed that we should be able still to retain the rich valley of the lower Mississippi. But general disappointment and a temporary feeling of alarm suddenly arose from an event unexpected, and never hitherto feared: the fall of New Orleans, which had been regarded as strong enough to repel the attacking force. Such also had been the belief of General Lovell, the military commander there, as late as December 5, 1861. Chains were stretched across the approaches to New Orleans, and obstructions sunk in the river at the narrowest points; the forts had been all strengthened; but all these were passed. Our new ram, the Jlississzippi, was destroyed by our forces, and all the machinery and materiel of war was lost, and the key to the Mississippi was in the enemy's hands. The loss of New Orleans was a terrible disaster. But deeply as its capture was deplored by the Confederates, the spirit of the p
January 1st (search for this): chapter 24
ous agents in the commission of these crimes, and no instance is known of the refusal of any one of them to participate in the outrages above narrated; And whereas the President of the United States has, by public and official declaration, signified not only his approval of the effort to excite the servile war within the Confederacy, but his intention to give aid and encouragement thereto if these independent States shall continue to refuse submission to a foreign power after the first day of January next, and has thus made known that all appeals to the laws of nations, the dictates of reason, and the instincts of humanity would be addressed in vain to our enemies, and that they can be deterred from the commission of these crimes only by the terms of just retribution; Now, therefore, I, Jefferson Davis, President of the Confederate States of America, and acting by their authority, appealing to the Divine Judge in attestation that their conduct is not guided by the passion of r
December (search for this): chapter 24
, to be dealt with according to the laws of the said States. Fourth. That the like orders be executed in all cases with respect to all commissioned officers of the United States, when found serving in company with armed slaves in insurrection against the authorities of the different States of this Confederacy. In testimony whereof I have signed these presents and caused the seal of the Confederate States of America to be affixed thereto, at the city of Richmond, on this 23d day of December, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-two. Jefferson Davis. In the House of Lords, on the T3th, Lord Carnarvon called attention to General Butler's proclamation relative to the ladies of New Orleans, and condemned it in severe terms as without precedent in the annals of war. He asked if the Government had information of its authenticity, and if it had protested against it. He also asked if there was any truth in the rumors of the mediation of France and England.
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