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Chickahominy (Virginia, United States) (search for this): chapter 14
n by an exhibition of my fears, so that all sorts of tentative experiments were made on me. When the report came that McClellan had been captured, I happened to be at Baton Rouge. Upon its reception there was, as nearly as by any possibility there could be, an attempt to start a riot in New Orleans. One man, a German bookseller, displayed in his windows a skeleton with a large label, Chickahominy, on it, and told my soldiers who inquired about it that it was a Yankee skeleton from Chickahominy. Arrest of Mrs. Larue at New Orleans. One Andrew, a cousin of my friend the Governor of Massachusetts, a high-toned gentleman (?), presented himself in the Louisiana Club with a breast-pin constructed of a thigh-bone of a Yankee killed on the Chickahominy, as he said. A young woman, blonde and blue-eyed, wearing flowing silken curls and Confederate colors, white and red, was sent down St. Charles Street, at high noon, with a quantity of handbills containing the particulars of th
Pennsylvania (Pennsylvania, United States) (search for this): chapter 14
rs, Charles Sumner. Senate chamber, 8th Jan., 1863. Dear General:--Mr. Stanton assured me last evening that had he known your real position with regard to the proclamation he would have cut off his right hand before he would have allowed anybody to take your place,--that his fixed purpose was that on the 1st of January a general should be in command at New Orleans to whom the proclamation would be a living letter; and that in this respect it was natural, after the recent elections in Pennsylvania and New York, that he should look to a Republican rather than to an old Democrat. I mention these things frankly, that you may see the precise motive of the secret change. I afterwards saw the President, who said that he hoped very soon to return you to New Orleans. He added that he was anxious to keep you in the public service and to gratify you, as you had deserved well of the country. I do not know that you will care to hear these things, but trust that you will appreciate th
Mexico (Mexico) (search for this): chapter 14
o far as it became necessary to take it for public use under the laws of the United States. Nothing could be done in New Orleans before I got there without the aid of the negroes, and as soon as I came, the negroes came and told me everything they had done, and always truthfully. They told me where one banker had built up in the walls of his house a vault containing fifty thousand dollars. They told me whereto outside money had been sent; that the Dutch consul had eight hundred thousand Mexican dollars concealed in his consulate; that the French consul had some three or four millions in his; that some of Richmond, Va., in 1861, from a sketch. the banks had concealed large sums of money behind the altars of the churches and in the tombs. This left the currency of the people in the most horrible condition. Omnibus tickets, car tickets, drinking-house shinplasters and Confederate notes,--the latter depreciated some seventy per cent. by the capture of New Orleans,--were the only
Marlboro, Mass. (Massachusetts, United States) (search for this): chapter 14
leave to append the two following letters of the Hon. Charles Sumner:-- Senate chamber, 5th Dec., 1862. Dear General:--The President says that you shall not be forgotten, --these were his words to me. General Halleck and Mr. Stanton say substantially the same thing, although the former adds all generals call for more troops ; but I shall follow it up. Do not fail to call on me. I understand that the French government has forbidden the papers to mention your name. The name of Marlboro was once used in France to frighten children,--more than a century ago. You have taken his place. Believe me, my dear sir, Faithfully yours, Charles Sumner. Senate chamber, 8th Jan., 1863. Dear General:--Mr. Stanton assured me last evening that had he known your real position with regard to the proclamation he would have cut off his right hand before he would have allowed anybody to take your place,--that his fixed purpose was that on the 1st of January a general should be in com
Charleston (South Carolina, United States) (search for this): chapter 14
hey now depreciate) with which to buy bread. All other property has become nearly valueless from the calamities of this iniquitous and unjust war, begun by rebellious guns turned on the flag of our prosperous and happy country floating over Fort Sumter. Saved from the general ruin by the system of financiering, bank stocks alone are now selling at great premiums in the market, while the stockholders have received large dividends. To equalize, as far as may be, this general loss; to have . be immediately executed by hanging, the undersigned hereby offers a reward of ten thousand dollars ($10,000) for the capture and delivery of the said Benjamin F. Butler, dead or alive, to any proper Confederate authority. Richard Yeadon. Charleston, S. C., January 1. He did not get my head, but I did afterwards send for him, but got only his door-plate, the man himself having run away. The she publication was from the Charleston Courier:-- A daughter of South Carolina writes to the
Baton Rouge (Louisiana, United States) (search for this): chapter 14
hibition of my fears, so that all sorts of tentative experiments were made on me. When the report came that McClellan had been captured, I happened to be at Baton Rouge. Upon its reception there was, as nearly as by any possibility there could be, an attempt to start a riot in New Orleans. One man, a German bookseller, dispemy. I also told Banks that I had intended, as soon as I could spare the regiment from Weitzel, to send the Twenty-First Indiana, which had won such glory at Baton Rouge under Colonel McMillan, down to occupy Galveston, Texas, which was then held by the fleet. I looked upon Colonel McMillan as fit to command the department, andamin, who had an enormous grudge at me for doing a thing which he did not mention in the proclamation, i. e., so thoroughly preaching Unionism to his brother at Baton Rouge in July, that he took the oath of allegiance, declaring himself a Union man. While the paper is filled with simple lying abuse, yet the main ground upon which i
Wyoming (Wyoming, United States) (search for this): chapter 14
tish civilization, and yet been within the supposed rules of civilized warfare. You might have been smoked to death in caverns, as were the Covenanters of Scotland by the command of a general of the royal house of England; or roasted, like the inhabitants of Algiers during the French campaign; your wives and daughters might have been given over to the ravisher, as were the unfortunate dames of Spain in the Peninsular War; or you might have been scalped and tomahawked as our mothers were at Wyoming by the savage allies of Great Britain in our own Revolution; your property could have been turned over to indiscriminate loot, like the palace of the Emperor of China; works of art which adorned your buildings might have been sent away, like the paintings of the Vatican; your sons might have been blown from the mouths of cannon, like the Sepoys at Delhi; and yet all this would have been within the rules of civilized warfare as practised by the most polished and the most hypocritical nations
Havana, N. Y. (New York, United States) (search for this): chapter 14
e I came. The consul had been paid by Gautherin & Co., certain sums in gold as part of the expenses of the undertaking; and a very considerable amount of gold had been paid the consul's wife in order to make the affair go off well, as appeared on the books. I also was enabled to get evidence of a receipt given by the consul for the money, and full evidence that the money had been lately sent away to pay for this clothing of the Confederate army; and that there was a large amount waiting in Havana, which could not be delivered until the first was paid for, and then it was immediately to be sent to Texas and be delivered to the Confederate quartermaster. I reported all this to my government, and they demanded the exequatur of Mejan, and he was recalled by his government. I learned afterwards that Napoleon required that I be recalled from New Orleans. It was done. Under the cowardly and unjust administration of the State Department, the officer ordered to catch the thief, and wh
Scotland (United Kingdom) (search for this): chapter 14
s thesis have I administered the authority of the United States, because of which I am not unconscious of complaint. I do not feel that I have erred in too much harshness, for that harshness has ever been exhibited to disloyal enemies to my country, and not to loyal friends. To be sure, I might have regaled you with the amenities of British civilization, and yet been within the supposed rules of civilized warfare. You might have been smoked to death in caverns, as were the Covenanters of Scotland by the command of a general of the royal house of England; or roasted, like the inhabitants of Algiers during the French campaign; your wives and daughters might have been given over to the ravisher, as were the unfortunate dames of Spain in the Peninsular War; or you might have been scalped and tomahawked as our mothers were at Wyoming by the savage allies of Great Britain in our own Revolution; your property could have been turned over to indiscriminate loot, like the palace of the Empero
China (China) (search for this): chapter 14
the command of a general of the royal house of England; or roasted, like the inhabitants of Algiers during the French campaign; your wives and daughters might have been given over to the ravisher, as were the unfortunate dames of Spain in the Peninsular War; or you might have been scalped and tomahawked as our mothers were at Wyoming by the savage allies of Great Britain in our own Revolution; your property could have been turned over to indiscriminate loot, like the palace of the Emperor of China; works of art which adorned your buildings might have been sent away, like the paintings of the Vatican; your sons might have been blown from the mouths of cannon, like the Sepoys at Delhi; and yet all this would have been within the rules of civilized warfare as practised by the most polished and the most hypocritical nations of Europe. For such acts the records of the doings of some of the inhabitants of your city toward the friends of the Union, before my coming, were a sufficient provoc
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