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Benjamnin F. Butler, Butler's Book: Autobiography and Personal Reminiscences of Major-General Benjamin Butler, Chapter 10: the woman order, Mumford's execution, etc. (search)
sassination the wife's appeal Mumford hanged eight years later Depredation harshly punished Butler's wonderful spy system a spy in every family negro servants tell all some amusing instances I want that Confederate flag, Madam, for a Fourth of July celebration in Lowell It must not be inferred that the several matters of which I treat at so much length followed one another in point of time. They were all going on at once, each pressing upon the other and each interfering with doing ----Street? Yes. Well, madam, my information is that you have been having a series of sewing bees at your house by a party of young secession girls, making a flag to be sent to Beauregard's army. I have occasion for such a flag on the Fourth of July. I hear there is to be a Sabbath school celebration of the children of my town and I want to send a Confederate flag up there to please them, for they have never seen one. Won't you please go with my orderly and get that flag and bring it h
Benjamnin F. Butler, Butler's Book: Autobiography and Personal Reminiscences of Major-General Benjamin Butler, Chapter 11: military operations. (search)
ce and cut off the neck of land beyond Vicksburg by means of a trench across, thus:-- Diagram showing Vicksburg's position on the River. making the cut about four feet deep and five feet wide. The river itself will do the rest for us. A large supply of spades and shovels has been sent for this purpose. Report frequently. By order of the Major-General Commanding: George C. Strong, A. A. G., Chief of Staff. Profile of Canal across Burey's Point, opposite Vicksburg. On the 4th of July General Williams reported:-- Have arrived at Vicksburg. On June 25 commenced running and levelling the line of the cut-off canal, and on the morning of the 27th broke ground. Between eleven and twelve hundred negroes, gathered from the neighboring plantations by armed parties, are engaged on the work. With the hard-working twelve hundred negro force engaged and this prospect of a rise we are in good heart. The project is a great one, and worthy of success. In the next three days w