The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1869-05-27

the uuIIlD0F- Oh DdlcS Oh COgJOH sI1Iht sWoIt
fused by order of Gen. Jackson in the lines
2 on the 9Th of JAM 1915, and having some
knowledge Of that transaction, / an
: induced to hand youa copy of a note to o
) friend of mine,l dated July 1, 1861, and
that friend | think handed 1T to Will AN
/ H. Russell, Esq, one of the correspondents
of the London Times. a hae eJod
sfi "a NEW ORLEANS, July /, 1861
ADaAR SIR AT your request I hand
you the following memorandum, showing
the number of cotton bales sent to the
! American lines for use in 1914 and 1915
at that time took note relating to the
) matter, which notes were burned some
years ago with my office. -. ~ '... -
After the battle on the night of Deem
Der %, 1874, in which the Quartermaster
General, Colonel Piatt, was wounded, and
at his request was ordered by General
jackson to go into his office as his
assistant.
! About the goth of December, 1914, an
order was sent from headquarters to the
Quartermaster-G eneral to send to the lines,
think, five hundred bales Of cotton; that
order was placed in the hands of the
writer to execute, At that time there
were but few carts or drays in the, city,
and the roads leading from the city to
| the lines were SO cut up and muddy that
it was quite impossible to transport the
cotton by land. 80, ~ ~ .'llo'i.l ti1h
The brig Sumatra, belonging to Corne-
illus Paulding, Esq, was lying at the levee
at that time, partly loaded for France,
Having on board 277 bales Of cotton,
Shipped by Messrs. Vincent Nolte 81 Co.
| A barge was hired and taken alongside
Of that brig, with orders for the brig to
discharge the cotton into the barge,which
was done; the 277 bales of cotton were
taken to the lines and there discharged,
| Il believe about the goth or 27th of De-
cember, 1914) No more cotton was sent
to the lines at that or any other time. p
| AT that time, the troops were busilyem-
ployed throwing up the breastworks, and
about $50 bales Of cotton were taken to
build magazine iii the garden at head
quarters, (and near this magazine Judah
Touro ESQ, received his wound.) The
Cotton placed in this magazine was cow
cred with earth, which made it in the
| form OF a sugar loaf A part of the cot.
ton was .placed0n end and part in what
was called the Half Moon Battery. 7d a9 a3i
| During the battle, JAN s, 1915, and in
subsequent commandments, the enemy's
balls passed through the bales of cotton,
they offering but little resistance. The
bales in the magazine answered very
good purpose, and were not damaged by
the bombarding 9 e rsm esd 8H anuo'
Afterpeace was made known, all the
cotton remaining (some was LOST wasgathr
cred together by order of General Jack,
Ison, and sold for the benefit of whom it
might concern and the commissioners
were named by the Commanding General
1 to determine in what way tMessrs Nolte
| & Co., should be compensated for the 277
| bales oflcotton taken from the brig Suma-
] ira and used at the lines, Nolte & Co., TO
furnish the weights % 5dH gasi 9i8
The Commissioners were Benjamin
Morgan, Peter v. Ogden and w. w. Mont
gomery, all merchants and honorable men.
The day the Commissioners met theprice
of cotton was fourteen cents per pound,r
and that price was awarded to MessrsTV.
Nolte s. Co, and they received the money
at that price, I do not recollect what the
cotnOntaken from the mud and earthworks
/ brought but / think about $4,000 for the
! lott 70 ntUTi It bsIsgsalu 8ed or naff
4 10 ,gtiiaup9 10 Respectfully, ri aorBIoq
.bG9qsbnf 'rqagHCHARLEs HARRoD.5
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