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- GLC#
- GLC05025
- Type
- Letters
- Date
- 17 September 1862
- Author/Creator
- Butler, Benjamin F. (Benjamin Franklin), 1818-1893
- Title
- to M. Jefferson Thompson
- Place Written
- New Orleans, Louisiana
- Pagination
- Primary time period
- Civil War and Reconstruction, 1861-1877
- Sub-Era
- The American Civil War
Proposes an exchange of prisoners in response to Confederate General Richard Taylor's threat to execute ten Union prisoners from the 8th Vermont regiment. Refers to the deprivation of some property on Taylor's plantation and remarks that he believes it very unjust of Taylor to allow personal feelings to get involved. Makes no threat of retaliation and informs that he will not harm the prisoners he has captured. Written on stationary from the headquarters of the Department of the Gulf. 1 black and white bust engraving of Benjamin F. Butler.
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