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BY JAMES PARTON, AUTHOR OF THE "LIFE AND TIMES OF AARON BURR," "LIFE OF NEW YORK: MASON BROTHERS, No. 7 MERCER STREET. FOR SALE BY AMERICAN NEWS COMPANY, 119 NASSAU STREET. BOSTON: MASON & HAMLIN. PHILADELPHIA: J. B. LIPPINCOTT & CO. CHICAGO: 8. C. GRIGGS & CO. 1864. 45 5595.8.2 "WHATEVER THEY CALL HIM, WHAT CARE I !- HARVARD COLLEGE LIBRARY FROM THE BEQUEST OF EVERT JARSEN WENDELL 1918 Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1863, by MASON BROTHERS, In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United States for the Southern Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1864, by MASON BROTHERS, In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United States for the Southern In this edition some of the longer documents have been omitted or abridged, but the general course of the narrative remains unchanged, and nothing has been omitted which is necessary for the understanding of the various subjects treated in the work. HARVAN COLLEGE STEREOTYPED BY SMITH & McDorGAL, PRINTED BY C. A. 15 VANDEWATER ST. PREFACE. Ir can not be necessary to apologize for an attempt to relate the history of the most remarkable episode of the war, respecting which opinions so violently contradictory are expressed, both at home and abroad. The vindication of the country itself seems to require that a policy should, at least, be understood, which the country has accepted as just, wise, and humane, and which the enemies of the country, foreign and domestic, denounce as arbitrary, savage, and brutal. It is, however, of the first necessity to state how this book came to be written, and from what sources its contents have been derived. Iu common with the other devotees of the Union and the Flag, I had watched the proceedings of GENERAL BUTLER in Louisiana with interest and approval; and shared also the indignation with which they regarded the perverse misinterpretation put upon his measures by the faction which has involved the Southern States in ruin, and by their "neutral" allies abroad. Upon the return of General Butler to the North, I wrote to him, saying that I should like to write an account of his administration of the Department of the Gulf, as well as a slighter sketch of the previous military career of a man who, wherever he had been employed, has shown an ability equal to the occasion; but that this could not be done, and ought not to be attempted, without his consent and co-operation. To this, the general thus replied: "I am too much flattered by your request, and will endeavor to give you every assistance in the direction you mention. My letter and order books shall be at your disposal, as well as the official and unofficial correspondence directed to me. If I can, by personal conversation, elucidate many matters wherein otherwise history might be a perversion of the truth, I will be at your service. "One thing I beg shall be understoood between us, however (as I have no doubt it would have been without this paragraph), that while I will furnish you with every possible facility to learn everything done by me in New Orleans and elsewhere, it will be upon the express condition that you shall report it in precisely the manner you may choose, without the slightest sense of obligation 'aught to extenuate' because of the source from which you derive the material of your work; and farther, that no sense of delicacy of position, in relation to myself, shall interfere with the closest investigation of every act alleged to have been done or permitted by me. I will only ask that upon all matters I may have the privilege of presenting to your mind the documentary and other evidences of the fact." I had not the pleasure of General Butler's personal acquaintance, but our correspondence ended with my going to Lowell, where I lived for a considerable time in the general's own house, and received from him, from his staff, and from Mrs. Butler, every kind of aid they could render for the work proposed. We talked ten hours a day, and lived immersed in the multitudinous papers and letters relating to the events which have excited so much controversy. The general placed at my disposal the whole of those papers and letters, besides giving the most valuable verbal elucidations, and relating many anecdotes previously unrecorded. Respecting the manner in which the material should be used, he did not then, and has not since, made a single suggestion of any kind. He left me perfectly free in every respect. Nor has he seen a line of the manuscript, nor asked a question about it. Therefore, while the whole value and the greater part of the interest of this volume are due to the aid afforded by General Butler, he is not to be held responsible for anything in it except his own writings. If I have misunderstood or misinterpreted any event or person, or used the papers injudiciously, at my door let all the blame be laid, for it is wholly my fault. |