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Title: Autobiography and personal reminiscences of Major-General Benj. F. Butler; Butler's book
Year: 1892 (1890s)
Authors: Butler, Benjamin F. (Benjamin Franklin), 1818-1893
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Publisher: Boston, A.M. Thayer
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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r the wife of his friend, also prepares his conscience to permit his perjury todefend himself andher in the crime. SirWalter Scott treatsthis, in a public speech,as the acknowledgedduty of a gentleman.So, in the South, nopledge or engagementmade with a Yankeewas held to be binding.The 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 enemyasked that she might besent up under a flag oftruce as a cartel to carrytheir wounded officersand men to the city.Of course she was to return and deliver herself up, because, as shewas then, with Farraguts fleet above and below her, she could notpossibly have escaped. This arrangement was made between Cap-tain Smith, commanding the Mississippi at the quarantine, and theofficers of the Confederate navy. They deliberately caused holes tobe bored in the steamer, as she lay in the river after they had landed
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Benj. F. Butlek ix 1863.Engraved from a Life-size Bust. BUTLERS BOOK. 391 from her, and sunk her. They took care to keep themselves out ofNew Orleans after I came, for if I had found them there, they wouldhave been deprived of future opportunity to do any more rascality,and by the most effectual means. I soon learned that the committee, with the assent of Soule, hadsmuggled the one thousand barrels of beef intrusted to them acrossthe lake to feed Loveils troops at Camp Moore and left their fellow-citizens to starve, and that the boats sent to Mobile for provisionshad been made despatch boats for the carrying of mail under thedirection of the French consul, and of treasonable correspondencegiving information to the rebels as to the condition of military andnaval affairs in the Department of the Gulf. Charles Heidsieck, a partner in the French firm of Heidsieck& Co., producers and venders of champagne, disgui.sed himself as abar-keeper, in order to pass backward and forward on the s

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