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The Daily Dispatch: January 14, 1865., [Electronic resource], article 1 (search)
en accumulating against him for months on account of alleged illegal and arbitrary arrests, imprisonments and punishments. It is said that many cases of glaring injustice have come to light, and many others are expected to be developed by his supersedure. Major-General Butler is ordered to turn over his command, all moneys and Government property, and the civil fund in his possession, to the person named by Lieutenant-General Grant as his temporary successor, and to proceed to Lowell, Massachusetts, and to report to the War Department by letter. Major-General Edward Otho Cressup Ord, commanding the Twenty-fourth army corps, has been named the temporary successor of General Butler, and will at once take charge of the Department. Lincoln's levee — the Ape in White kid gloves. The Washington Star (court journal) has a description of Lincoln's New- Year levee. The White House was thronged from 8 o'clock till 11 o'clock. The Star says: The President, who was dre
The Daily Dispatch: January 16, 1865., [Electronic resource], Confederate Congress. (search)
eply affected, and expressed his regrets at parting with an army which, under his command, had achieved so much. But any expressions of sorrow were cut short by the rapidity of the General's arrangements. He had received his orders to report at Lowell at the earliest moment, and before 3 o'clock P. M. he announced that he was ready to leave. The order directing this change instructed General Butler to proceed to Lowell, Massachusetts, and report from thence to the adjutant-general of the armyLowell, Massachusetts, and report from thence to the adjutant-general of the army. Before 3 P. M. the General started for the North. He was accompanied by General Ord, General Devins, General Turner, General Ludlow, Captain Bruce, Captain Clard, Captain DeKay, Lieutenant Merrill, Medical Director Suckley, Major Davis and Captain Wheaton.--Never had an order been more promptly obeyed. All of the above-named officers accompanied the General to Aiken's landing, where he went on board his flagboat, the River Queen. General Butler was accompanied by Captains DeKay and Cl
The Daily Dispatch: January 16, 1865., [Electronic resource], Confederate Congress. (search)
The war News. The quiet of the military lines in front of Petersburg and Richmond remains unbroken. The Army of the James last week witnessed a very touching scene — old Benjamin Butler's farewell to his troops. He was torn suddenly and ruthlessly from his beloved niggers by Lincoln, and sent into the shades of private life at Lowell, Massachusetts. His affecting farewell address, and a full account of his leave-taking, will be found in the extracts from Northern papers published in another column. In his address, he gives Grant a severe parting kick. Though for the moment under a cloud, he will soon burst from his seclusion with renewed effulgence. It will be observed, he is ordered to report by letter to the Adjutant General of the United States. We expect next to hear from him as the Military Governor of Kentucky. The Yankee journals mention the starting out of another great naval expedition. It is already battering at Fort Fisher. Since our last issue no official
The Daily Dispatch: January 23, 1865., [Electronic resource], article 2 (search)
We have not yet heard what honors the city of Lowell and Commonwealth of Massachusetts propose to bestow upon General Butler. He is a native son of Massachusetts, and a glory to the State. He has cast all the renown of her Websters and Winthrops completely in the shade. He is the best embodiment of Massachusetts character that the war has yet produced. He only needs a slight varnish of Puritanism to make him perfect. We grieve to say that "General Butler does not add to his other virtues that of being a hypocrite. The brethren ought to take him in hand, and induce him to become a member of the Massachusetts Young Men's Christian Association. With this single exception, Butler is an honor to his native State.--He has made his own fortune and unmade the fortunes of a good many other people. What higher recommendation could man present to New England admiration and respect. Lowell ought to present him the freedom of the city in a gold box. He has had the freedom of the Sou
The Daily Dispatch: January 25, 1865., [Electronic resource], Cromwell, Lincoln and Virginia. (search)
Jamestown up to Rainbow Bluff. Over one hundred and fifty torpedoes have been taken from the river already. They are put up in block tin cans and placed from three to eight feet under the water, and in rows across the river at intervals of a few miles. The Louisville Journal (Prentice's paper), heartily approves and endorses Mr. Yeaman's speech in Congress in favor of amending the Constitution so as to abolish slavery. It deems the extermination of slavery not only a fixed fact, but in every way desirable. Sixteen years ago General Grant was setting type in an Ohio printing office. General Butler is to have an imposing public reception when he returns to Lowell. The total cost of the marble for the capitol at Washington, and for cutting it, is $2,778,544. Mr. Melvin S. Whitney, one of the most opulent and respectable merchants of New York, committed suicide by cutting his throat with a razor, in his apartments in West Thirty-second street, near Broadway.
The Daily Dispatch: February 3, 1865., [Electronic resource], General Lee Commander-in-chief. (search)
f thirty or sixty days was granted on the start. This, of course, Mr. Blair informed him would not be acceded to by the United States Government. Butler at Lowell — a good notice for Grant, the Butcher. Butler arrived at Lowell on Saturday, and that evening addressed his "fellow-citizens" at a public hall. He rehearsed Lowell on Saturday, and that evening addressed his "fellow-citizens" at a public hall. He rehearsed his services to the United States since the beginning of his infamous career, and tried to clear up the Wilmington failure by laying the fault on Farragut. As for what he did, he would do it over again under the same circumstances. He said: He was here on a letter from the Lieutenant-General to the President; but no word oe to the country instead of the blessing it was intended to be. In conclusion, General Butler apologized for speaking at such length. He was ordered to report at Lowell, and he had now reported in full. They had a right to know if their welcome was worthily bestowed. He referred to the apparent prosperity of the people, and sai
The Daily Dispatch: February 9, 1865., [Electronic resource], Disclosures by General Butler. (search)
Disclosures by General Butler. We have received a copy of a Northern paper containing, in full, the speech of General Butler at Lowell. It fills five columns, printed in very small type.--There is a good deal of information in it which will be entirely new in the Confederate States. We give some extracts from it: The exchange of prisoners — Grant responsible for stopping it. Butler emphatically denies having, at any time, stopped the exchange of prisoners. He says that he and Colonel Ould, in March last, arranged an exchange, man for man, the latter refusing to give up negro slaves captured in arms, and Butler determining to keep back a sufficient number of Confederates to balance that point. He says: I reported the points of agreement between myself and the rebel agent to the Secretary of War, and asked for power to adjust the other questions of difference so as to have the question of enslaving negro soldiers stand alone, to be dealt with by itself, and that t
The Daily Dispatch: February 11, 1865., [Electronic resource], article 5 (search)
ens of African descent, instead of Massachusetts citizens of New England descent., is a benefactor of his native land. They appreciate the difference between that Petersburg "hole filled up with American dead until it ran blood" and that placid and secure Dutch gap, where not a groan was heard, nor a funeral note, and where their favorite General snored calmly in his couch of mud, "with his martial cloak around him." General Grant need not send his recruiting officers in the neighborhood of Lowell. "'Taint, a knowin' kind of cattle That is cotch'd with mouldy corn." It will be the crowning glory of Butler in Massachusetts that only "twenty-five men were killed and wounded at Big Bethel"; and as his audience were none of the twenty-five, there is no drawback to their satisfaction. Whereas, he delares that, in the disastrous battles of Grant and others, "there were more men slaughtered and homes made desolate than there were leaves on the trees in the forest around Big B
The Daily Dispatch: February 23, 1865., [Electronic resource], article 2 (search)
Important from Europe. The foreign mails received by the City of Dublin and North American are to the 8th instant. Fort Fisher. The London journals publish elaborate accounts of the capture of Fort Fisher. The same steamer that took out the news of General Terry's victory conveyed the report of General Butler's speech at Lowell — a coincidence upon which the Daily News comments. It is added, however, that the explanations of General Butler are interesting as giving some knowledge of the difficulties of the exploit. The News says: On the whole, though it is difficult to anticipate all that may follow from this success, the difficulty is rather from the number of consequences than from any doubt of the importance of any of them. In its results it is a blow as staggering to the Confederate rule as that which delivered Savannah to its new masters. The Times says: The energy with which this enterprise has been prosecuted is creditable to the military admi
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