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Kentucky (Kentucky, United States) (search for this): chapter 14
ey, and paid out as money, months afterward, when my neighbor has become bankrupt, buy up other of his checks and drafts at discount, and pay them to me instead of money, upon the ground that I had made a special deposit. The respectability of the source from which the claim of the bank proceeds alone saves it from ridicule. The United States can in no form recognize any of the sequestrations or confiscations of the supposed Confederate States; therefore, the accounts with the Bank of Kentucky will be made up, and all its property will be paid over and delivered, as if such attempted confiscation had never been made. The result is, therefore, upon the showing of the bank by its return, that there is due and payable to the Confederate States, and therefore, now to be paid to the United States, the sums following:-- Confederate States treasurer's account$219,090.94 Confederate States special accounts12,465.00 Deposits by officers: J. M. Huger, receiver106,812.60 G. M. War
Europe (search for this): chapter 14
obeyed orders. Shortly prior to Nov. 13, 1862, I was informed that our minister at Brussels had written to the State Department that the Confederate agents in Europe were embarrassed by the non-arrival of a large amount of coin from New Orleans, and that the purveyors of cloth could not be paid. One of these was the commissarans, based upon interruptions and losses in trade, were numerous. . . . Some were intricate and delicate, and even threatened to endanger friendly relations with European powers. The Secretary found half his time engrossed with these questions. He determined that it would be wise to establish some tribunal at New Orleans to examthe 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 provocative
South Carolina (South Carolina, United States) (search for this): chapter 14
ard Yeadon's residence. 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 Courier from Darlington District:-- I propose to spin the thread to make the cord to execute the order of our noble president, Davis, when old Butler is caught, and my daughter asks that she may be allowed to adjust it around his neck. It is evident that she had not been in New Orleans and got tamed. There is no difference between a he adder and a she adder in their venom. The first recital of the proclamation, namely, that Mumford was executed for a crime comm
Lake Pontchartrain (Louisiana, United States) (search for this): chapter 14
manifestation of Union sentiments in New Orleans during that summer, save that the continual bad news from the army of McClellan on the peninsula made them afraid that the Union control of New Orleans would be short; and that view of the war was fostered continually by telegrams from Richmond giving the most glorious accounts of the destruction of McClellan's army. The rebels had telegraphic communication from Richmond to a point within forty miles of the city on the opposite side of Lake Pontchartrain, and thence by the use of fishing-boats, spies, and secret communications, generally known as the grapevine telegraph, the news came to the rebels. To me, no authentic information came from Washington or the North under fifteen days, and newspapers were eight and ten days old when I received them. On the 25th of June a despatch came from Richmond via grapevine, which was believed by all the secessionists, that McClellan with forty thousand men had been captured and carried into Ric
Lowell (Massachusetts, United States) (search for this): chapter 14
ves Butler in Washington, seeking reasons interviews with Lincoln, Stanton and Seward double-dealing of the latter shown farewell address Davis proclaims Butler a felon and an outlaw ,000 reward Lincoln desires Butler's services return to Lowell One of the most important matters which pressed upon me immediately after my occupation of the city was the condition of the currency. It was absolutely necessary for the successful administration of my department in New Orleans that I shouldity, where the Twenty-Sixth Regiment was encamped, they turned out on the quay and gave me many cheers. My voyage was without incident except some quite rough weather off Hatteras. I reached the Narrows on the 1st day of January, on my way to Lowell. My vessel was met by a revenue cutter, the commander of which brought to me a letter from President Lincoln, asking me to call on him at once. A fac-smile of this letter appears on page 389. In obedience to his wish, I went to see him. H
Ship Island (Mississippi, United States) (search for this): chapter 14
aring Confederate colors, and if she didn't put them on and go down street purposely. She said she did; she felt very patriotic that day. Well, I said, then I think your patriotism better be exhibited somewhere else, and I will send you to Ship Island to be confined there two years. Her husband then interposed and said she was his wife. Well, I said, why didn't you take care of her and prevent her from getting up a riot in the street? I couldn't, General. Well, you see I can. Did you say that it was made of the thigh-bone of a Yankee? Yes; but that was not true, General. Then you added lying to your other accomplishments in trying to disgrace the army of your country. I will sentence you to hard labor on Ship Island for two years, and you will be removed in execution of this sentence. Then came Fidel Keller, who had exhibited what he called the skeleton of a Chickahominy Yankee and lied when he did so, and he was given the same term of hard labor, two
New Orleans (Louisiana, United States) (search for this): chapter 14
ingly issued, on the 16th of May, the following General Order No. 29:-- New Orleans, May 16, 1862. I. It is hereby ordered that neither the city of New OrleaNew Orleans, nor the banks thereof, exchange their notes, bills, or obligations for Confederate notes, bills, or bonds, nor issue any bill, note, or obligation payable in Conear the loss. Thereupon I issued the following General Order No. 30:-- New Orleans, May 19, 1862. It is represented to the commanding general that great dising. War Records, Vol. XV., p. 514. headquarters Department of the Gulf, New Orleans, La., July 2, 1862. Hon. Salmon P. Chase, Secretary of the Treasury: Sir:--Wal position, only a portion of which was heretofore yours. Benj. F. Butler. New Orleans, Dec. 24, 1862. There is a companion piece to this address, published atlicly executed in cold blood by hanging, after the occupation of the city of New Orleans by the forces under Gen. Benjamin F. Butler, when said Mumford was an unresi
England (United Kingdom) (search for this): chapter 14
hin 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 of Europe. For such acts the reco
Yorktown (Virginia, United States) (search for this): chapter 14
ds another despatch came, reporting that Washington had been taken and that an officer of the New Orleans Washington Artillery had raised the Confederate flag on the Capitol. These sensational despatches were hardly worse than some which were authentic, as far as I could understand the campaign on the peninsula. Having commanded there, I knew the situation well. The fact that the Army of the Potomac, the great army on which the safety of the republic almost depended, was waiting around Yorktown in the swamp, attacking it with spades and shovels in schoolboy engineer fashion, while the Confederates were concentrating all their forces for the defence of Richmond, left me substantially without hope. Although Confederate treasury notes under the order could not be paid out for any property, or pass from hand to hand as currency, yet they might be traded in by curbstone brokers. These were principally Jews, and as Benjamin, the Confederate Secretary of State, was a Jew, and his bro
Robert E. Lee (search for this): chapter 14
States. Whereas, A communication was addressed, on the 6th day of July last, 1862, by Gen. Robert E. Lee, acting under the instructions of the secretary of war of the Confederate States of Americen received to said letter), another letter was, on the 2d of August last, 1862, addressed by General Lee, under my instructions, to General Halleck, renewing the inquiries in relation to the executied States; And whereas, an answer, dated on the 7th of August last, 1862, was addressed to General Lee by Gen. H. W. Halleck, the said general-in-chief of the armies of the United States, allegingwill be immediately taken to ascertain the facts of the alleged execution, and promising that General Lee should be duly informed thereof; And whereas, on the 26th of November last, 1862, another in Virginia, in 1864, a portion of my colored troops raised in Virginia were captured and put by Lee into the trenches to work on the rebel fortifications, I wrote him a note stating that if they we
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