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BEAUREGAKp AID BUTLER.
A Sad Romance IN tho Life Of the
Confederate General.

A Sad Romance IN tho Life Of tho
Confederate General.
Interview with Beauregardfn n Y. World. I
Il left home suddenly Fehruary %, 1851,
having resigned from the United States corps
Of engineers, on the CALI Of the provisional
government of the Confeh1acy, at Mont
gomery, Aha. l expected at that time to
return in about a fortnighs 10 command Tn
Louisiana, where had been stationed for
many years. Instead was osdered to
Charleston, s. c., thence 10 Man
assas, thence to west tennessee etc, to
the end of the war, remaining absent
from home four years and three
months. When started from Eew Orleans
Mrs Beauregard was IN very bad health, and
was compelled to leave her With her own
family to betaken care Of; hence was ex-
tremely anxious to return to be with her; but
IN war soldier belongs first 10 his country
and then to his family. Shortly after New
Orleans was taken possession Of by the Fed
eras, my wife and family -cmuposed only Of
ladies. the gentlemen having gone to the
war-received an order from Gen. Buffers
chief quartermasSer to vacate their
houses in forty-eighs hours, as 1t was
TO be occupied by Federal officers An
old friend of the family, DIR. Mercer, who
was well acquainted With Gen. Butler, went
to him to demonstrate against such a proceed
ing and to explain tss condition Of Mrs
Beauregardas health Gen. Butler at once
! counte1nanded the order, which, he said, had
been given without his approval. Moreover,
he sent guard to protect the house from
further intrusion, but the ladies requestedthe
guard to be withdrawn, which was-done
while Mrs. Beauregard's health became worse
and worse. At last, in the early spring Of
1864 it became evident to her physician and
her family that she had not long to
live. Our good old friend, DR.. Mercer,
again went to Gen. Butler to know if there
were no possibility of my seeing once more
the tender and loving wife from whom had
been so suddenly and long separated. He
Immediately turned to his desk, and with his
characteristic promptness wrote an uncon-
ditional pass, which authorized me to enter
his lines and to come to New Orleans, where
could remain unmolested as long as circum-
stances required my presence there. That
was a noble act, for which shall ever be
grateful 1t is doubtful, in my mind,
whether many officers of the United States
service would have been willing to assume
such responsibility without first referring
the matter to the war department. at Wash
ington-
When received the pass Charleston was
threatened with another serious attack, aud
Gen. Seymour, OF the United States army,
was about to leave Jacksonville, Ala, on an
expedition across north Florida, thence to
the gulf of Mexico, and was organizing a
force to check his march, which was done
;hortly after by Gems. Fin1igan and Colq1it+s,
at the battle Of O1ussee or Ocean Pond I
was thus placed in the painful dilemma Of
selecting between my duty as commander
and my affection as husband / declined
the pass SO generously rendered.
1.-TWO weeks after while with my troops in
front Of Jacksonville, in which Gen. Seymour
had retreated after his defeat, I received, and
read by hedismal light of campfire, the
news Of the death Of one whom loved dearer
than life. We had been married less than
one year when we pared, and 1 never saw
her again.