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1853 AD (search for this): chapter 11
er with such virulence as to drive from the city all unacclimated persons who could get away. In 1853, the victims of yellow fever were so numerous that there were no means of burying them, and so thnce of the disease than in the case of that other scourge of armies, the smallpox. In the year 1853, beginning August 1, excluding those that were not liable to have the yellow fever and those who e of my officers other than descriptions of the incidents of the attacks of the terrible fever in 1853, when its dead lay in heaps because of the inability of the living to inter them. An instance the best book he knew of was the description of the rise, progress, and decline of the disease in 1853, by Professor Everett, who had written upon the matter very intelligently. I asked him if he wouer there was in the country, Doctor MacCormick, who fought it in New Orleans through the siege of 1853. Before he came I procured a perfectly competent quarantine officer, to whom I was to pay double
May 9th, 1862 AD (search for this): chapter 11
f of the poor. There were one hundred and fifty thousand inhabitants. There were more paroled rebel soldiers in the city than the general had troops within fifty miles of his headquarters. The families of many of those who had gone to Shiloh, Richmond, and the other Confederate armies, were all left behind, generally in a state of destitution. What was to be done? It was attempted to meet this exigency by the following order:-- headquarters Department of the Gulf, New Orleans, May 9, 1862. General Order No. 25. The deplorable state of destitution and hunger of the mechanics and working classes of this city has been brought to the knowledge of the commanding general. He has yielded to every suggestion made by the city government, and ordered every method of furnishing food to the people of New Orleans that government desired. No relief by those officials has yet been afforded. This hunger does not pinch the wealthy and influential, the leaders of the rebellion, who
May 6th (search for this): chapter 11
odies being piled up for that purpose in heaps. And yet, even after that terrible warning, no method or means of prevention in the future had ever been had. The reason for this is best told in the words of a leading editorial in the True Delta, the proprietor of which, it will be recollected, was so ardent a secessionist that he refused to print my proclamation. The editorial was printed after he was disciplined for his secession conduct.:-- For seven years past, said the True Delta, of May 6, the world knows that this city, in all its departments,--judicial, legislative, and executive,--has been at the absolute disposal of the most godless, brutal, ignorant, and ruthless ruffianism the world has ever heard of since the days of the great Roman conspirator. By means of a secret organization emanating from that fecund source of every political infamy, New England, and named Know-Nothingism or Sammyism, --from the boasted exclusive devotion of the fraternity to the United States,--
May 7th (search for this): chapter 11
cal but certainly true. Randolph, the rebel Secretary of War, wrote to Lovell, April 25, 1862, as follows:-- It has been determined to burn all the cotton and tobacco, whether foreign or our own, to prevent it from falling into the hands of the enemy. You will, therefore, destroy it all if necessary to prevent them from getting it. This was sent on the 25th of April,but did not reach Lovell. It was again sent on the 28th, and did not reach him directly, but he did get it on the 7th of May. Randolph renewed the instructions on May 21, 1862. [War Records, Series I., Vol. XV, pp. 459-471.] The following is from Lovell's order pursuant to the instructions from Randolph [War Records, Series I., Vol. XV., pp. 459-460]:-- headquarters Department no. 1, C. S. A. Camp Moore, La., May 3, 1862. General Orders No. 17. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . It is with the people to decide this question for themselves. If you are resolved to be free; if you are w
May 8th (search for this): chapter 11
cupy and administer the offices of the municipality and the commonwealth. Can our condition surprise any man? . . . . . . . . . . . . . We accept the reproach in the proclamation, as every Louisianian, alive to the honor and fair fame of his State and chief city, must accept it, with bowed heads and brows abashed. The condition of peace, order, and quiet to which the city had been brought at this time, is also certified to by the New Orleans Bee, another secession paper. The Bee of May 8 said:-- The federal soldiers do not seem to interfere with the private property of the citizens, and have done nothing that we are aware of to provoke difficulty. The usual nightly reports of arrests for vagrancy, assaults, wounding, and killing, have unquestionably been diminished. The city is as tranquil and peaceable as in the most quiet times. About the fourth day after my proclamation, I drove out in a calash with my wife one morning to take a look at the condition of the city
May 4th, 1862 AD (search for this): chapter 11
he 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 having been informed that rebellious, lying, and desperate men have represented, and are now representing, to honest planters and good people of the State of Louisiana that the United States Government by its force has come here to confiscate their crops of cotton and sugar, it is hereby ordered to be made known by publication in all the newspapers of this city that all cargoes of cotton and sugar shall receive the safe c
1857 AD (search for this): chapter 11
orrect and proper surgical and medical practice in my treatment of the disease. And I do not attempt to defend it either, as the best way of dealing with the yellow fever. Far be that from me. I only did what was the best thing I could find to do when I was obliged to do something. But I will say that in 1864, two years afterwards, I applied exactly the same method in the city of Norfolk, Virginia, a port which the yellow fever never before shunned when it came to the Atlantic coast. In 1857, if I get the date right, there was more than a decimation of its unacclimated inhabitants by the yellow fever, and a great many thousand dollars were subscribed that year by the good people of the North to aid the distressed place. It had not improved any in cleanliness in 1864, for it had been in military possession for four years by the troops of both sides,--and I am afraid both equally nasty,--until it was the filthiest place I ever saw where there were human habitations of a civilized
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