HEADQUARTERS DEPARTMENT OF THE
GULF,
New
Orleans, May 23, 1862.
Brigadier-General PHELPS,
Commanding Camp Parapet:
GENERAL: You will cause all unemployed persons, black and
white, to be excluded from your lines.
You will not permit either black or white persons to pass
your lines, not officers or soldiers or belonging to the Navy of the United
States, without a pass from these headquarters, except they are brought in
under guard as captured persons with information; these to be examined and
detained as prisoners of war if they have been in arms against the United
States or dismissed and sent away at once, as the case may be. This does not
apply to boats passing up the river without landing within lines.
Provision dealers and market men are to be allowed to pass
in with provisions and their wares, but not to remain overnight. Persons having
had their permanent residence within your lines before the occupation of our
troops are not to be considered unemployed persons.
Your officers have reported a large number of servants.
Every officer so reported employing servants will have the allowance for
servants deducted from his pay roll.
Respectfully,
your obedient servant,
BENJ.
F. BUTLER,
Major-General,
Commanding.
SOURCE: The War of the Rebellion: A Compilation of
the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies, Series I, Volume
15 (Serial No. 21), p. 443-4
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