Dederer, N. A., fl. 1862-1863 to Peter B. Rathbone

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GLC04703.11-View header record
Type
Letters
Date
14 July 1863
Author/Creator
Dederer, N. A., fl. 1862-1863
Title
to Peter B. Rathbone
Place Written
New Orleans, Louisiana
Pagination
6 p. :
Primary time period
Civil War and Reconstruction, 1861-1877
Sub-Era
The American Civil War

Writing from the Marine Hospital, Dederer, with the New York Volunteer Regiment notes the success of Grant at Vicksburg. His opinion of pardoning rebel soldiers: "Gen'l Butler is the damned'st Scoundrel in the whole Federal Army, but it needs such a man to deal with these pretended senior men; men who just as soon as our backs are turned render all the possible aid and comfort to these small armies or bands of Guerrillas. I would not allow so many of them to take the oath, as but few of them regard it as all binding, and it only furnishes them with a cloak by which they hide their disloyalty."

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