June 11, 1861
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NEGRO STEALING- “Picayune Butler” reports to Lincoln’s Secretary of War the gratifying intelligence that he has made prizes at Hampton of sixty thousand dollars worth of negroes. He finds the “bucks” very useful in camp work, but wants instructions to the disposition which he shall make of the women and the children, who eat their rations and do no service in payment. The “philanthropic” Yankee ought to be willing to feed the “poor slave” for nothing, seems to us.