Private and Official Correspondence of Gen. Benjamin F. Butler: During the Period of the Civil War ... Privately Issued, Volume 1Plimpton Press, 1917 - Generals |
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Adjt Adjutant Annapolis April arms Army Artillery authority B. F. BUTLER Baltimore Battery BENJ BENJAMIN F Blanche Butler boat BOSTON Brig Butler Head Quarters Butler Headquarters Department Camp Capt Captain chronological order citizens Colonel Comdg command companies Confederate Consul DEAR SIR desire despatch duty enclosed enemy England Excellency Flag Officer force Fort Jackson Fort Monroe Fortress Monroe forts Gen'l Genl Government Governor Andrew Gulf guns Head Quarters Dept honor informed June land laws leave LETTERS OF GEN Lieut Major General B. F. Major General Butler Massachusetts matter ment military morning negroes obedient servant Orleans persons rebels received recruiting regiment Regt Respectfully river Saxon Scott Secretary Secretary of War sent Servt Ship Island SIMON CAMERON soldiers Steamer tion transportation troops United vessels Virginia Vols Volunteers War Department Washington WINFIELD SCOTT
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Page 340 - Now would I give a thousand furlongs of sea for an acre of barren ground ; long heath, brown furze, any thing : The wills above be done ! but I would fain die a dry death.
Page 450 - Orleans, in return for the most scrupulous non-interference and courtesy on our part, it is ordered that hereafter when any female shall, by word, gesture or movement, insult or show contempt for any officer or soldier of the United States, she shall be regarded and held liable to be treated as a woman of the town plying her avocation.
Page 535 - I, AB, do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the United States of America ; that I will serve them honestly and faithfully against all their enemies whomsoever ; and that I will obey the orders of the President of the United States, and the orders of the officers appointed over me, according to the rules and articles of war.
Page 187 - I certify, on honor, that the above account is correct and just, and that I have actually, this 31st day of December, 1898, paid the amount thereof.
Page 409 - We are a band of brothers, and native to the soil, Fighting for the property we gained by honest toil; And when our rights were threatened, the cry rose near and far, Hurrah for the Bonnie Blue Flag that bears a Single Star.
Page 397 - All foreigners, not naturalized and claiming allegiance to their respective governments, and not having made oath of allegiance to the government of the Confederate States, will be protected in their persons and property, as heretofore, under the laws of the United States.
Page 179 - After tranquillity shall have been restored upon the return of peace, Congress will doubtless properly provide for all the persons thus received into the service of the Union, and for a just compensation to loyal masters. In this way only, it would seem, can the duty and safety of the Government and just rights of all be fully reconciled and harmonized.
Page 19 - I therefore conclude that it is only left to the Commanding General to watch and await .their action, which, if it shall be to arm their people against the United States, he is to adopt the most prompt and efficient means to counteract, even, if necessary, to the bombardment of their cities and, in the extremest necessity, the suspension of the writ of habeas corpus.
Page 419 - 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.
Page 534 - United States flag from a public building of the United States, for the purpose of inciting other evil-minded persons to further resistance to the laws and arms of the United States, after said flag was placed there by Commodore Farragut, of the United States...