The War of the Rebellion: A Compilation of the Official Records of the Union And Confederate Armies. Series 3, Volume 2. Page: 638
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CORRESPONDENCE, ETC.
having already been found on the list, and knowing it was without
the knowledge of the Spanish consul, or any of your [officers], upon
consultation with your consul, I desire to ask that you will permit one
of my detective officers, in company with one of the officers of your
ship, to examine the passengers on board the transport so as to detect
the escape of unworthy persons.
I ask the supervision of one of your officers, in order that I may not
seem to interfere with or infringe the Spanish jurisdiction over your
national vessel; or if this would seem to you objectionable, any other
means may be taken by which the same object be accomplished.
I have the honor to be, your obedient servant,
BENJ. F. BUTLER,
Major- General, Commanding.
[Inclosure No. 9.]
NEW ORLEANS, LA., October 4, 1862.
Maj. Gen. B. F. BUTLER, U. S. Army,
Commanding the Department of the Gulf:
Having carefully examined into the cases referred to in the com-
munication of His Excellency Mr. Tassara, minister from Spain, I
respectfully submit that, from the annexed statements of facts,
taken from the records of the quarantine station and those of the
Board of Health of New Orleans, the " complaints alleged by Spanish
subjects against Major-General Butler's administrations of the quar-
antine laws at New Orleans," and "allegations in effect of a capri-
cious discrimination to the prejudice of Spanish vessels trading at
New Orleans," it will be seen that, as far as Major-General Butler
and his medical officers connected with the quarantine station and
the Board of Health of New Orleans are concerned, their acts have
been without fear, favor, or partiality, so to conduct and enforce the
quarantine regulations as to derive therefrom the sole object for which
they were instituted, the greatest possible salubrity of the city of. New
Orleans during the sickly season of the year, and, above all, so as to
prevent the introduction of yellow fever into the city of New Orleans;
and yet, notwithstanding all their vigilance, on the 6th day of Septem-
ber, by the steam tug Ida, from New York via Nassau, New Provi-
dence, a case of most undoubted yellow fever was brought into this
city and proved fatal on the morning of the (sixth day after its arrival)
12th of September. Doctors Smyth, Fenner, Wederstrandt and
Brickell, each of whom had seen and examined the case before
its fatal termination, all concur that it was an unmistakable case of
yellow fever. In the words of Doctor Wederstrandt, than whom no
physician is more capable of judging, having plainly shown every
characteristic of yellow fever up to and including black vomit.
I saw this case myself immediately after death, and am satisfied it
was an unmistakable case of yellow fever.
This circumstance naturally caused greatly increased rigor, as had
previously taken place from accidental occurrences of a minor nature.
In every judicious quarantine all vessels direct from healthy ports
can enter without delay, and all from infected ports must be detained
until the medical officers become satisfied beyond a doubt that in per-
mitting them to go up to the city they shall neither carry up the yellow
fever nor the infection that may produce it. This requires much nice
discrimination, and also a greater or less lapse of time, according to
attending circumstances, and its exercise can scarcely fail in some638
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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/m1/647/: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting UNT Libraries Government Documents Department.