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Adam Badeau, Military history of Ulysses S. Grant from April 1861 to April 1865. Volume 3 309 19 Browse Search
Adam Badeau, Military history of Ulysses S. Grant from April 1861 to April 1865. Volume 2 309 19 Browse Search
General Horace Porter, Campaigning with Grant 170 20 Browse Search
J. B. Jones, A Rebel War Clerk's Diary 117 33 Browse Search
Comte de Paris, History of the Civil War in America. Vol. 2. (ed. Henry Coppee , LL.D.) 65 11 Browse Search
Edward Porter Alexander, Military memoirs of a Confederate: a critical narrative 62 2 Browse Search
Comte de Paris, History of the Civil War in America. Vol. 1. (ed. Henry Coppee , LL.D.) 36 2 Browse Search
William Tecumseh Sherman, Memoirs of General William T. Sherman . 34 12 Browse Search
Fitzhugh Lee, General Lee 29 3 Browse Search
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 2. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones) 29 3 Browse Search
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The Daily Dispatch: October 25, 1862., [Electronic resource], article 1 (search)
be attacked once more, for the Yankees have neither forgotten nor forgiven the defence made by that gallant town. Beast Butler has left New Orleans to superintend operations against Mobile, where already seven or eight men of war have congregated, xpect it, and we are prepared for it.--The example of New Orleans will never be imitated during this war. Thanks to Beast Butler and the lesson he has taught, that is impossible.--Thanks to that other, and far different example — thanks to glorious lt saving the towns because they are our towns. Better would it have been for the wretched inhabitants who were caught by Butler in New Orleans, that they had permitted their city to be burnt to ashes rather than have surrendered, to become the sport of a murderer and robber, such as Butler the Beast. The people of Charleston, and Savannah, and of Mobile, have a plain duty to perform. it is never to surrender their cities so long as one house be left standing. If they choose to bombard, l
The Daily Dispatch: October 25, 1862., [Electronic resource], Further from the North. (search)
om the town. The officer then asked Mr. Smith if he knew who he was: on being replied in the negative, he said, "I am Col. Butler, of South Carolina. I am instructed to make an examination of the bank, and report to Gen. Stuart my success." The guonging to the Hampton Legion. They were all well dressed, and generally speaking fine looking men. Shortly afterwards Col. Butler said, "I understood before coming that the money had all been removed, but I hear there are some Government securitiesere no Government securities, and the examination made was of a very slight character. All the doors were opened, and Col. Butler merely looked in, without making a very minute search. In one portion of the bank about two hundred dollars in splite, he asked Mr. Smith if he was married. Mr. Smith said he was, and intimated that his family was close at hand. Colonel Butler told him that his family should not be harmed, and desired him to quiet the fears of any citizens he met with, and de
The Daily Dispatch: October 25, 1862., [Electronic resource], article 2 (search)
om our guns on this side. I lost not a man killed on the expedition, and only a few slight wounds.--The enemy's loss is not known, but Pelham's one gun compelled the enemy's battery to change its position three times. The remainder of the march was destitute of interest. The conduct of the command and their behavior toward, the inhabitants is worthy the highest praise; a few individual cases only were exceptions in this particular. Brig. Gen Hampton and Cols. Lee, Jones, Wickham, and Butler, and the officers and men under their command, are entitled to my lasting gratitude for their coolness in danger and cheerful obedience to orders. Unoffending persons were treated with civility, and the inhabitants were generous in prefers of provision on the march. We seized and brought over a large number of horses, the property of citizens of the United States. The valuable information obtained in this reconnaissance as to the distribution of the enemy's force was communicated oral