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Frenchtown (New Jersey, United States) (search for this): chapter 11
he was attacked in this way: Two newsboys stood near him and one said: Jack, have you heard the news? No, Tom, what is it? Got the yellow fever prime down in Frenchtown; two Yanks dead already. It will sweep them all off. No surgeon in my army ever saw a case of yellow fever or had any instruction in meeting this hideous foossessed faith in my ideas about the prevention of yellow fever. General, said he, I am sorry to tell you that you have got two cases of yellow fever down in Frenchtown. Ah! Where did they come from? There were two passengers on board the little tug that came from Nassau. You must be mistaken, doctor. It was sworn expth had been false. Well, doctor, I said, here is a little order to the lieutenant of the provost guard to have a squad of sentries around that square down in Frenchtown in which these yellow fever patients are. Doctor MacCormick, you will post them. Let nobody go in or out except you accompany them or they bring my written ord
New Bern (North Carolina, United States) (search for this): chapter 11
ard between Norfolk and the fever-stricken town of Newbern, North Carolina, a small country town on the Neuse liver. NewbernNewbern is in a region surrounded by resinous pines, and I had always supposed that a more healthy place could not be found in North attention had not been drawn to that question at all, for Newbern was an inland town in a pine region. But to my horror andstonishment in the latter part of July yellow fever struck Newbern, and as my recollection is now,--and it will be of little hould come up on the boats through Dismal Swamp canal from Newbern until proper means of fumigation and cleansing had been tas the condition of things which caused the yellow fever in Newbern, and after the frosts came I went down there. When I got he camps of the regiments that had been located around it. Newbern had been held for nearly three years by the Union and rebeis smell of human excrement, itself in decay, pervaded all Newbern, in full conjunction with the exhalations of the decaying
Mississippi (United States) (search for this): chapter 11
of salt water back into the lake. All the drainage of the city flowed into the lake through the drains from the houses, and all the water pumped from the Mississippi River by the Commercial Water Works also flowed into the lake through these open drains. It must be borne in mind that the banks, or levees, of the Mississippi Mississippi River are some sixteen to eighteen feet higher than the city. When the river is full, one standing in the streets looks up to a ship in the river as he would look up to the top of a house. In the dry time, the water falls away about the same distance, exposing to the sun a wide expanse of batture, or silt, brought down from aboveading if we can. Orderly, take these orders to the quartermaster and have him see to it that bright Topographical map. Survey between Lake Ponchartrain and Mississippi River. fires at the four corners of the square are kept burning day and night, supplied with tar barrels and pitch, so as always to keep an upward current of air.
George F. Shepley (search for this): chapter 11
d lives of so many would be dependent upon the truth of those reports, he was notified that any remissness in his duty would be punished with the heaviest punishment known. The next requirement that complicated the matter was the necessity of doing all this at once. Therefore, on the 4th of June, I sent the following message to the military commandant and the city council of New Orleans:-- New Orleans, June 4, 1862. to the military commandant and City council of New Orleans: General Shepley and Gentlemen:--Painful necessity compels some action in relation to the unemployed and starving poor of New Orleans. Men willing to labor cannot get work by which to support themselves and families, and are suffering for food. Because of the sins of their betrayers, a worse than the primal curse seems to have fallen upon them: In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread until thou return unto the ground. The condition of the streets of the city calls for the promptest action f
Pierre Soule (search for this): chapter 11
s of women. But to return to our. meeting. I read my proclamation to the city officials. Pierre Soule, late United States senator and minister to Spain, was put forth as their spokesman. Mr. SouMr. Soule did not complain of the proclamation except so far as it foreshadowed the occupation of the city. He said that he knew the temper of the people, and their gallant courage, and they never would sue were starving for supplies that could not be got from any known source. I further stated to Mr. Soule: I learn that we have captured a thousand barrels of Alexandria beef. I will turn that over tI immediately ordered this to be turned over to the committee of the city government, to whom Pierre Soule was added. This I did upon the solemn pledge that all such provisions should be used only foality, and by the most effectual means. I soon learned that the committee, with the assent of Soule, had smuggled the one thousand barrels of beef intrusted to them across the lake to feed Lovell'
J. Burnham Kinsman (search for this): chapter 11
us mob. They did not seem to be the canaille. They interrupted our consultation by their noise very considerably. Lieutenant Kinsman came in and reported that a Union man, Mr. Somers, who had once been recorder of the city, and who had taken refugeto the mob, I thought it was dangerous for him to have to go through the mob without a strong force, and I directed Lieutenant Kinsman to take my headquarters guard at the St. Charles down to the Custom House with him. The appearance of Somers, guard to wait in our conference, looking out the window at the scene, while the little bunch of troops, gallantly led by Lieutenant Kinsman, took Somers through the crowd. Then the mob gathered about the hotel again, and resumed its shouting and offensive morning to take a look at the condition of the city and its suburbs. We took no guard save an orderly on the box. General Kinsman of my staff was with us. We went up the river in a street parallel with it and about one hundred yards from it. A li
Jonas H. French (search for this): chapter 11
In the interval between the evacuation by Lovell and Farragut's arrival, a panic had seized the city, exhibiting itself in the destruction of property. Cotton, sugar, tar, rosin, timber, and coal were set on lire, and all the ships and vessels that could not be taken away with a few exceptions were burned. There was even some talk among the citizens of burning the city. Some of the Confederate leaders favored it on the ground that there was a large foreign interest in the city, especially French, and that if the city were destroyed it would bring the war so home to them that France would try to cause it to be ended by intervention. This destruction of property was also done on the outside of the city upon the ground that the supplies, especially cotton, would be destroyed by us upon capture. To allay this fear I issued General Order No. 22:-- headquarters Department of the Gulf, New Orleans, May 4, 1862. General Order No. 22. The commanding general of the department hav
Commandling (search for this): chapter 11
was simply to organize a central force of 5,000 men, which, in connection with corps of Partisan Rangers, might succeed in confining the enemy to New Orleans, and thus subject him to the diseases incident to that city in summer. If I cannot organize that central force, I fear that I shall be compelled to abandon that plan and be driven from the State; and it was the possibility of this result which induced my note of this morning. Respectfully your obedient servant, M. Lovell, Major-General Commandling. This letter shows that this question was submitted to Lee on or before the 12th of May, and that it was agreed to by Governor Moore and Judge Moise; and there is nothing in the War correspondence which shows that it was ever objected to by Lee. I ought to state what the dangers were. It is well known that persons having had the yellow fever and thus becoming acclimated, are no more liable to a recurrence of the disease than in the case of that other scourge of armies, the
Walter Scott (search for this): chapter 11
imile letter of Abraham Lincoln. Before the war, I had met gentlemen of the South whose word I would take implicitly. I believed them men of honor, and they were so. But the dire crime of treason seemed to have obliterated the consciences of quite all of them, as well as of the foreign officials who resided among them, just as the man who makes up his mind to dishonor the wife of his friend, also prepares his conscience to permit his perjury to defend himself and her in the crime. Sir Walter Scott treats this, in a public speech, as the acknowledged duty of a gentleman. So, in the South, no pledge or engagement made with a Yankee was held to be binding. The most flagrant instance of this was in the case of the McRae, captured at Fort Jackson. She was the only Confederate gunboat that had not been destroyed by Farragut's fleet in its passage of the forts. The enemy asked that she might be sent up under a flag of Benj. F. Butler in 1863. engraved from a life-size bust. tru
John Clark (search for this): chapter 11
But to the extent possible within the power of the commanding general, it shall be done. He has captured a quantity of beef and sugar intended for the rebels in the field. A thousand barrels of these stores will be distributed among the deserving poor of this city, from whom the rebels had plundered it; even although some of the food will go to supply the craving wants of the wives and children of those now herding at Camp Moore and elsewhere, in arms against the United States. Capt. John Clark, Acting Chief Commissary of Subsistence, will be charged with the execution of this order, and will give public notice of the place and manner of distribution, which will be arranged, as far as possible, so that the unworthy and dissolute will not share its benefits. By command of Major-General Butler. Geo. C. strong, A. A. G., Chief of Staff. Under this order 32,400 men, women, and children had these provisions distributed to them, under a system which ensured that the food wen
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