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Historic leaves, volume 4, April, 1905 - January, 1906, Personal Experience of a Union Veteran (search)
Personal Experience of a Union Veteran By Levi Lindley Hawes
(Continued.)
About the middle of April General Butler learned that Farragut's fleet had crossed the bar and was ready to proceed up the Mississippi.
Six regiments and two batteries were immediately embarked on sailing transports and started for the front.
On the eighteenth—although about sixty miles away—we heard the gentle voice of Porter's fifteen-inch mortars.
Then came the cheering account of Farragut's passing the forts—Jackson and St. Philip—and later the landing of General Butler in New Orleans on the first of May.
Other troops were sent forward as transportation could be furnished, till early in May the Thirteenth Maine only was left on the island.
Many are called, but few are chosen, was my comment at the time; and we were the chosen few. Some of the boys regarded this as punishment, but punishment for what?
No adequate answer was forthcoming.
We had been inspected by General Butler himself, and ve