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SAILINO TRIP TO f-Tr" INLAND Auguat 27, 187^
Letters of P.opublican Governor Adelbert Anes to hi* wif#
Blanch* Butler A^res and tvo children at Tovell, ysss.
August 26, 18A — «t Shieldsborough, Miss*
• . . Our arrangements are definitely issde to sail out to the inlands tomorrow,
£hip Island will be one of those ve prooose to visit. That I shall view with interest, as one vhereon your Father and Mother flourished a dozen years sgo.
(M. Janes Stevens notei U.S. Fajor Gen. Benjamin F. Butler vith Vrs. Butler (formerly Sarah Hildreth) vere on the island from Farch late to May 1862 commanding TJ.S. troops vhich occupied New Orleans. La. With them vas her sister Varia Hildreth Parker married to Ship Island Postttaster for r.f;. John Parker who had similar position at Hew Orleans and in 187^ still lived in 17.0. Andrew J. Butler, brother of Gen'l EerJ. F. Butler, also stayed in New Orleans vicinity until Gen. Butler departed December 1862.
>frc. Gen. Butler feared yellow fever and left New Orleans in June 1862.)
August 29, I87V — at Shieldsborough
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Ve had a very pleasant sail. Ve started at four o*clock in the worning and returned at two o*clock the next ir.crning. The wind was light almost the entire day, and ve did riot arrive at Ehip Island until after sunset.
The wind wes ahead, snd when a mile to the leevard of tht Lighthouse beating up to it the full coon rose behind the island, and made the scene quite beautiful, as well as unique.
As we rtoved along, the noon would be at one tiire behind the Lighthouse, at another behind the Fort, and again behind the buildings between the Fort and Lighthouse, vhich v.ere built for, and once occupied by our troops.
Walfr r*n T?l«nd
Ve landed, and lighted by the moon and a lantern carried by the keener of the Lighthouse, we walked through the deserted ntreet fcrired by the officers quarters, and soldiers* barracks on either han% to the Fort, which ve inspected. It is in perfect condition, and last winter some guns wore rnounted on its parapet.
The buildings used by the troops as quarter? are fast falling to decay. The vind has drifted sand about like snow. Sorre of the houses have been und>-rrrined, while others hsve teen benked up.