The War of the Rebellion: A Compilation of the Official Records of the Union And Confederate Armies. Series 3, Volume 2. Page: 239
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UNION AUTHORITIES.
term); 34,000 for desertions and missing in action (not returned or
otherwise accounted for), and 6,000 to supply other losses specified
and unspecified.
The 500,000 effective men are equivalent in number to the number
of men in 573 regiments of the average numerical strength (that is
872 men each); and the 58,000 sick equivalent to 67 regiments of
average numerical strength; the entire force of 558,000 men to be
maintained being equivalent to 640 regiments of average strength.
HEADQUARTERS DEPARTMENT OF THE GULF,
New Orleans, July 21, 1862.
Hon. REVERDY JOHNSON:
MY DEAR SIR: Permit me to iterate and reiterate again and again
what you knew so well before, but which these deluded people seem
determined never to believe, that no merchandise, whether cotton or
sugar, will in any event be seized or confiscated by the U. S. authori-
ties here.
I will assure safe conduct, open market, and prompt shipment of
all such property sent to New Orleans, and the owner, were he Slidell
himself, should have the pay for his cotton if sent here under this
assurance.
I am, most truly, yours,
BENJ. F. BUTLER,
Major- General, Commanding.
NEW ORLEANS, July 21, 1862.
Major-General BUTLER:
MY DEAR GENERAL: I needed not your note of this morning to satisfy
me on the subject to which it relates. The public mind should have
been put right upon it by your proclamation of the 7th of May.
In these times, however, opinion is so sensitive and misrepresen-
tations so frequent upon all matters touching the unfortunate con-
dition of the country, that,I am glad to have your note, with the
privilege to make it public. The restoration of commerce in and
from this port is a result so important to the interest of this State, the
United States, and the Governments of Europe that it seems strange
that an intelligent man should have doubted your wish, as the repre-
sentative of our Government, to do all that you could to bring it
about.
If there be any really existing fear upon the point, your note (for
which I thank you) cannot fail to remove it. The Confederate Gov-
ernment, as it calls itself, may burn and destroy the cotton and sugar
of the people whom they claim to represent, and whose rights they
pretend to be anxious to protect; they may, too, for a time succeed
in keeping alive the delusion of their followers; but an intelligent
Southern public and an intelligent European opinion will soon, if it
has not already, discover the shallowness of the pretense, and see,
unless soon arrested by the fostering power of the Government, the
certain ruin to which it must lead.
With great respect, yours, sincerely,
REVERDY JOHNSON.239
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United States. War Department. The War of the Rebellion: A Compilation of the Official Records of the Union And Confederate Armies. Series 3, Volume 2., book, 1899; Washington D.C.. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth139264/m1/248/: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting UNT Libraries Government Documents Department.