The people of Louisiana are protesting strongly against
permitting Gen. Lovell to remain in command in that State, since the fall of New
Orleans (which I omitted to note in regular order in these chronicles), and
they attribute that disgraceful event, some to his incompetency, and others to
treason. These remonstrances come from such influential parties, I think the
President must listen to them. Yes, a Massachusetts man (they say Gen. L. came
from Boston) was in command of the troops of New Orleans when that great city surrendered
without firing a gun. And this is one of the Northern generals who came over to
our side after the battle of Manassas.
SOURCE: John Beauchamp Jones, A Rebel War Clerk's
Diary at the Confederate States Capital, Volume 1, p. 135-6
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