HEADQUARTERS DEPARTMENT
OF THE GULF,
New Orleans, May 9,
1862.
General PHELPS:
Mr. J B. G. Armand says that a boy by name of Irwin Pardon,
whose services he claims, has come within your lines. The course which I have
adopted in such cases is this: If I have any use for the services of such a boy
I employ him without any scruple; if I have not I do not harbor him, as my
subsistence would by no means serve for so many extra men that I do not need.
If you have any use for him use him; if not, is he not like any other vagrant
about the camp.
Respectfully,
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. 442
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