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City Point (Virginia, United States) (search for this): chapter 15
he business to be promptly and properly attended to, and that every reflection made upon him by General Sherman in the above extract is utterly unfounded, will now be made to appear. Secretary Stanton's first dispatch, upon learning of the capture of Savannah, related to the care of this cotton, and a copy of it was immediately sent to General Sherman and its receipt acknowledged by him. It was as follows: War Department, Washington, December 26, 1864. Lieutenant-General Grant, City Point. I wish you a merry Christmas if not too late, and thank you for the Savannah news. It is a sore disappointment that Hardee was able to get off his fifteen thousand from Sherman's sixty thousand. It looks like protracting the war while their armies continue to escape. I hope you will give immediate instructions to seize and hold the cotton. All sorts of schemes will be got up to hold it under sham titles of British and other private claimants. They should all be disregarded; and it
Savannah (Georgia, United States) (search for this): chapter 15
e cotton was this: War Department, Savannah, Ga., January 12, 1865. Brevet Major-General Mursuance of this order General Meigs, then in Savannah, issued the following: [special orders, no. 1.] Savannah, Ga., January 12, 1865. The Secretary of War having directed the Quarterm give copies or extracts from it to no one in Savannah but the Quartermaster-General. The utmostacts to the commanding officer of the post of Savannah. * * * * Lieutenant-Colonel Ransom will con possession of all the cotton in the city of Savannah, or within the lines occupied by its garrisonpon these all marks by which the merchants of Savannah and the shippers from that port had been accu at the Treasury Department in regard to this Savannah cotton: The Treasury Department has not ped upon a single claim for cotton captured at Savannah, nor has it paid out a dollar on such claims,division of the Mississippi, in the field, Savannah, Ga., January 12, 1865. 1. Brevet Brigadie[14 more...]
Washington, Ga. (Georgia, United States) (search for this): chapter 15
from Goldsboro in wagons as fast as possible, found plenty of willing ears, though my army of eighty thousand men had been at Goldsboro from March 22d to the date of his dispatch, April 26th; and such a train would have been composed of from fifteen to thirty-two six-mule teams to have hauled this specie, even if it all were in gold. I suppose the exact amount of treasure which Davis had with him is now known to a cent; some of it was paid to his escort when it disbanded at and near Washington, Georgia, and at the time of his capture he had a small parcel of gold and silver coin, not to exceed ten thousand dollars, which is now retained in the United States Treasury vault at Washington, and shown to the curious. The thirteen millions of treasure with which Jeff. Davis was to corrupt our armies and buy his escape, dwindled down to the contents of a hand valise! To say that I was merely angry at the tone and substance of these published bulletins of the War Department, would hardl
Cuba, N. Y. (New York, United States) (search for this): chapter 15
graphed substantially the same thing to Admiral Dahlgren, and also to General Gillmore. The following is Sherman's gold dispatch: Raleigh, N. C., April 25, 1865. Major-General G. A. Gillmore, Commanding Department of the South, and Real-Admiral John A. Dahlgren, Commanding S. A. B. Squadron. I expect Johnston will surrender his army. We have had much negotiation, and things are settling down to the terms of Lee's army. Jeff. Davis and his Cabinet, with considerable specie, is making his way toward Cuba. He passed Charlotte, going south, on the 23d, and I think he will try to reach the Florida coast either at Cedar Keys or lower down. It would be well to catch him. Can't you watch the East coast, and send word round to the West coast? W. T. Sherman, Major-General. The facts presented from the records in this chapter, are quite sufficient to show the totally unreliable character of what the General of the army has written reflecting upon the great War Secretary.
Charlotte (North Carolina, United States) (search for this): chapter 15
raphed substantially the same thing to Admiral Dahlgren, and also to General Gillmore. The following is Sherman's gold dispatch: Raleigh, N. C., April 25, 1865. Major-General G. A. Gillmore, Commanding Department of the South, and Real-Admiral John A. Dahlgren, Commanding S. A. B. Squadron. I expect Johnston will surrender his army. We have had much negotiation, and things are settling down to the terms of Lee's army. Jeff. Davis and his Cabinet, with considerable specie, is making his way toward Cuba. He passed Charlotte, going south, on the 23d, and I think he will try to reach the Florida coast either at Cedar Keys or lower down. It would be well to catch him. Can't you watch the East coast, and send word round to the West coast? W. T. Sherman, Major-General. The facts presented from the records in this chapter, are quite sufficient to show the totally unreliable character of what the General of the army has written reflecting upon the great War Secretary.
United States (United States) (search for this): chapter 15
at all the cotton in Savannah was prize of war, belonged to the United States, and nobody should recover a bale of it with my consent; that, m the hour the first act of hostility was committed against the United States some time in December, 1860, and that no bill of sale subsequennuary 12, 1865. Brevet Major-General Meigs, Quartermaster-General U. S. A., Savannah, Ga. Sir: The Secretary of War directs that you assumling with the cotton. No person not in the employment of the United States will be permitted to enter into or to loiter about the neighborken and recorded. To exclude all persons not employed by the United States and needed in this operation from the warehouses and docks and regulations. * * * * M. C. Meigs, Q. M. Gen., Brevet Major-Gen. U. S. A. Albert G. Browne, Supervising Special Ag't Treas. Dep't. S. Drapertion, and they have been constantly consulted by counsel of the United States and of claimants in all cases yet tried or prepared for trial.
Goldsboro (North Carolina, United States) (search for this): chapter 15
ond, April 26th, 9:30 P. M.: The bankers here have information to-day that Jeff. Davis' specie is moving south from Goldsboro, in wagons, as fast as possible. * * * * The specie taken with them is estimated here at from six to thirteen millio The assertion that Jeff. Davis' specie train, of six to thirteen million dollars was reported to be moving south from Goldsboro in wagons as fast as possible, found plenty of willing ears, though my army of eighty thousand men had been at GoldsborGoldsboro from March 22d to the date of his dispatch, April 26th; and such a train would have been composed of from fifteen to thirty-two six-mule teams to have hauled this specie, even if it all were in gold. I suppose the exact amount of treasure which Dd to resent the insult, cost what it might. This ridicule of Halleck is based upon a perfectly evident misprint of Goldsboro for Greensboro in transmitting Halleck's dispatch of the 26th April, as it was through the latter place the rebel Cabin
Greensboro (North Carolina, United States) (search for this): chapter 15
. The thirteen millions of treasure with which Jeff. Davis was to corrupt our armies and buy his escape, dwindled down to the contents of a hand valise! To say that I was merely angry at the tone and substance of these published bulletins of the War Department, would hardly express the state of my feelings. I was outraged beyond measure, and was resolved to resent the insult, cost what it might. This ridicule of Halleck is based upon a perfectly evident misprint of Goldsboro for Greensboro in transmitting Halleck's dispatch of the 26th April, as it was through the latter place the rebel Cabinet passed. How little reason he had for this outburst upon the question of Jeff. Davis' gold, will appear from the fact that the day before this telegram of Halleck's was written, General Sherman had himself telegraphed substantially the same thing to Admiral Dahlgren, and also to General Gillmore. The following is Sherman's gold dispatch: Raleigh, N. C., April 25, 1865. Maj
Cedar Keys (Florida, United States) (search for this): chapter 15
graphed substantially the same thing to Admiral Dahlgren, and also to General Gillmore. The following is Sherman's gold dispatch: Raleigh, N. C., April 25, 1865. Major-General G. A. Gillmore, Commanding Department of the South, and Real-Admiral John A. Dahlgren, Commanding S. A. B. Squadron. I expect Johnston will surrender his army. We have had much negotiation, and things are settling down to the terms of Lee's army. Jeff. Davis and his Cabinet, with considerable specie, is making his way toward Cuba. He passed Charlotte, going south, on the 23d, and I think he will try to reach the Florida coast either at Cedar Keys or lower down. It would be well to catch him. Can't you watch the East coast, and send word round to the West coast? W. T. Sherman, Major-General. The facts presented from the records in this chapter, are quite sufficient to show the totally unreliable character of what the General of the army has written reflecting upon the great War Secretary.
Washington (United States) (search for this): chapter 15
t to be turned over to any Treasury agent, but held by the military authorities until a special order of the department is given for the transfer. Thomas has been nominated for Major-General. Edwin M. Stanton, Secretary of War. The part relating to cotton was sent by General Grant to General Sherman, and was thus answered by the latter: headquarters Military division of the Mississippi, in the field, Savannah, Ga., January 2, 1865. Hon. E. M. Stanton, Secretary of War, Washington, D. C. I have just received from Lieutenant-General Grant a copy of that part of your telegram to him of December 26th relating to cotton, a copy of which has been immediately furnished to General Easton, Chief Quartermaster, who will be strictly governed by it. I had already been approached by all the consuls and half the people of Savannah on this cotton question, and my invariable answer was that all the cotton in Savannah was prize of war, belonged to the United States, and nobody s
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