Excerpt from Private and Official Correspondence of Gen. Benjamin F. Butler, During the Period of the Civil War, Vol. 4 of 5: In Five Volumes
I am very much obliged to you for the information, and congratulate your officers Upon their success on this expedition.
Admiral: You may have some interest in the report of which enclosed telegram will give you the falsity, and I therefore take leave to send it for your information.
I have received captured by my officers original papers, of which the enclosed are copies.
Now, making all the proper allowances for the feeling of parents, and that I so do will be evident from the writing, it cannot be permitted that yourself and Mrs. Pratt shall supply an officer in the Rebel army, although a son, with money and means, while living under our Government.
I permitted you while here to send a small sum to relieve his necessities, but thousands of dollars will not, nay must not, do.
That I do not have both yourself and Mrs. Pratt arrested at once is a proof that I wish to deal leniently, as I shall certainly be obliged to act harshly if this is repeated.
Dear Mother: I have just been ordered to Savannah. I am very well. I have drawn on you for five hundred dollars more.
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