The world: historical and actual . ng several rams. The forts surrendered, the fewvessels of the defense were destroyed, and the citywas at the mercy of the assailants. General Butleftook possession of the city. His administrationof affairs in New Orleans gave great satisfactionat the Northand aroused stillgreater indigna-tion at the was accusedof robbing thepeople even oftheir spoons, andof playing the jdespot general real secretof Butlers un-popularity wasan order issuedto the effect that any woman who should insult theflag, or show contempt for the Union, should be as-sumed
The world: historical and actual . ng several rams. The forts surrendered, the fewvessels of the defense were destroyed, and the citywas at the mercy of the assailants. General Butleftook possession of the city. His administrationof affairs in New Orleans gave great satisfactionat the Northand aroused stillgreater indigna-tion at the was accusedof robbing thepeople even oftheir spoons, andof playing the jdespot general real secretof Butlers un-popularity wasan order issuedto the effect that any woman who should insult theflag, or show contempt for the Union, should be as-sumed to bea woman of the town plying her is now time to revisit the mud-bound army of thePotomac. The pressure of Northern public opinionwas such that early in March President Lincoln or-dered McClellan to move on Richmond. An abor-tive movement was made on the 10th of that that time the Burnside expedition was sentto capture Newbern, North Carolina, a port on theNeuse river. A fortnight later McClellen changed. BENJAMIN F. BUTLER. s\j- THE PERIOD OF CONFLICT. 535 his base of operations against Richmond to FortressMonroe. The Peninsula campaign may be said tohave begun with the evacuation of Yorktown,May 3. The Confederates were behind Quaker, orwooden guns. McClellan was deceived. He sup-posed the army then there under Magruder to bevery large. He expected a long siege and a des-perate resist-ance. Insteadof that, theConfederateswithdrew toWilli am s-burg withouttiring a dayslater the bat-tle of Wil-liamsbu rgwas Feder-al army ofthe Potomachad longbeen impa-tient for ac-tive service,and pursuedthe retreat-ing Confed-erates withthe utmost zeal, led by Generals Hooker. Kearney and Stone-man. Early in themorning of the 5thof May the fight-ing began Theswollen conditionof the streams im-peded reinforce-ments and the for-
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