Autobiography and personal reminiscences of Major-General BenjFButler : Butler's book : a review of his legal, political, and military career . d will be subject to thestrict inspection of the harbor master detailed from these headquarters, towhom its master will report its arrival. The faith of the city is pledged for the faithful performance of the re-quirements of this order on the jjart of the agent of the city authorities,who will be allowed to j^ass each way with the boat, giving no intelligenceor aid to the Confederates. By command of jVIajor-Gexeral C. Strong, A. A. Gener
Autobiography and personal reminiscences of Major-General BenjFButler : Butler's book : a review of his legal, political, and military career . d will be subject to thestrict inspection of the harbor master detailed from these headquarters, towhom its master will report its arrival. The faith of the city is pledged for the faithful performance of the re-quirements of this order on the jjart of the agent of the city authorities,who will be allowed to j^ass each way with the boat, giving no intelligenceor aid to the Confederates. By command of jVIajor-Gexeral C. Strong, A. A. General. On the succeeding day, I issued an order directing safe conductfor bringing, from the Red River, provisions wliich liad been pur-chased there by the city, and a similar order to tlie Opelousas Rail-road Company to bring to the city sucli provisions and such suppliesas it might, and made safe conduct for the agents, messengers, andemployees of the vessels and the railroad. Provisions were at oncebrought in from these several sources and the immediate and j^ressingnecessities of the citizens were relieved. BUTLEirs BOOK. 389 < f ! ^. §2 3 390 BUTLERS BOOK. Before the war, I had met gentlemen of the South whose word 1TTOuld take implicitly. I believed them men of lionor, and they^^ere so. But the dire crime of treason seemed to have obliteratedthe consciences of quite all of them, as well as of the foreign officials^10 resided among- them, just as the man Avho makes up liis mindto dishonor the Avife of his friend, also prepares his conscience to permit his perjury todefend himself andher in tlie crime. SirWalter Scott treatsthis, in a public speech,as the acknowledgedduty of a , in the South, nopledge or engagementmade witli a Yankeewas held to be most flagrantinstance of this was inthe case of the McRae,captured at Fort Jack-son. She was the onlyConfederate gunboatthat had not been de-stroyed by Farragutsfleet in its passage ofthe forts. The enemya
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