. Autobiography and personal reminiscences of Major-General Benj. F. Butler; Butler's book . B. Kinsman, and Captain Fuller (Seventy-FifthNew York Volunteers), provost marshal, to take possession of allthe sequestered prop-erty in the districtof Lafourche. Thiscommission was to putevery loyal citizen infull possession of hisproperty. All per-sonal property whichbelonged to disloyalowners (whether for-eigners or citizens ofthe United States)who had remained ontheir plantations anddone no act againstthe government, wasto be theirs, and the)*were to have the rightto remain upon theirlands and wor
. Autobiography and personal reminiscences of Major-General Benj. F. Butler; Butler's book . B. Kinsman, and Captain Fuller (Seventy-FifthNew York Volunteers), provost marshal, to take possession of allthe sequestered prop-erty in the districtof Lafourche. Thiscommission was to putevery loyal citizen infull possession of hisproperty. All per-sonal property whichbelonged to disloyalowners (whether for-eigners or citizens ofthe United States)who had remained ontheir plantations anddone no act againstthe government, wasto be theirs, and the)*were to have the rightto remain upon theirlands and work disloyal peoplewho had fled or beenin the service of the Confederacy, were to have their property gathered up and sold inopen market in New Orleans, and, their disloyalty being established,the product was to be turned over to the United States or held forwhoever had the right to it. Receipts were to he given for theproperty so taken possession of. The larger part of the labor of this commission, which went intovery successful operation, fell upon Colonel Kinsman. Every detail. Maj. Joseph M. Bell, ritovosT Judge at New Orleans 522 BUTLERS BOOK. he carried out with skill, energy, and unfaltering integrity. Morethan a million of dollars worth of property was disposed of by him,for which his receipts were given. The property belonging to loyalmen was returned to them; the personal property belonging to thedisloyal was seized and taken to New Orleans; the work necessary toput the sugar and other products upon the market was done upon theabandoned plantations; so that there was gathered more than a millionof money from the enemies of the United States to its revenues, andall this without a single dollar of expense to the United States. Of course no operations were more bitterly attacked than thoseunder this order. Every possible charge was made by the foreignconsuls against the commission. Its members were accused ofembezzling the proceeds of the sales and of selling port
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