Bannister breakfasted with me. — At Department finished
Proclamation declaring States in insurrection, without the exception formerly
made, with view to taking exclusive control of all purchases of cotton, sugar,
tobacco and rice in insurgent States.
Judge Hoadly came. Went to War Department with him. Stanton
promised the Generals he wanted, but could promise nothing else. Went also to
Genl. Halleck's. Found the President and Reverdy Johnson there, talked with a
Union Captain who was at Harpers Ferry at the time of its surrender. Says
Maryland Heights were surrendered to the surprise of every one; that Miles was
struck by a shell after the surrender of the post, just as he had put the white
flag in the hands of an orderly; that there was no necessity whatever for the
surrender, and that the officers were very indignant.
Warrants to-day enormous — over $4,000,000 — and unpaid
Requisitions still accumulating — now over $40,000,000. Where will this end?
Gen. Hunter came to dine with me. Expressed his decided
opinion that if his Order had not been revoked, he would now have had the whole
coast lined with disciplined loyal Southern men — black to be sure, but good
soldiers and true.
SOURCE: Annual Report of the American Historical
Association for the Year 1902, Vol. 2, p. 85-6
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