And her Husband.
and, with her husband, told me a good deal
about him. Mrs Harris went to him first
of all, to inquire if they were to be turned into
the street, to which he returned a compli-
mentary nega-
tive. The
General had
subsequently
become quite
an intimate at
the house which
did not belong
to the Harris-
es; they were
occupying it
for the owners,
probably Se-
cesh refugees.
Butler used
to come there
and quote
[photograph]
T. Decatur Harris.
[Gunn s diary continued]
poetry by
the hour;
Good God!
how that man
could quote!
exclaimed Har-
ris. Mrs H.
said that But-
ler gave a
pass through
the lines to
a rebel of-
ficer, conceal-
ed in her
house, and
I found no
difficulty in
crediting it. He refused her nothing. Why
didn t you say it was a friend of yours?
he asked, about somebody liable to be turned
into the street by his order. Notwithstanding
these favors, the lady exhibited to me a scrap-
book filled with virulent and abusive attack
on the General, acrostics on his name, cari-
| Page |
| Title: | Thomas Butler Gunn Diaries, Volume Twenty-One: page two hundred and thirty-seven |
| Description: | Describes a visit to Harris and his wife in New Orleans. |
| Date: | 1863-02-10 |
| Subject: | Butler, Benjamin F.; Civil War; Gunn, Thomas Butler; Harris, Lizzie; Harris, T. Decatur; Women |
| Coverage (City/State): | [New Orleans, Louisiana] |
| Scan Date: | 2010-11-18 |
| Volume |
| Title: | Thomas Butler Gunn Diaries, Volume Twenty-One |
| Description: | Includes Gunn's descriptions of his experiences as a war correspondent for ""The New York Tribune"" at New Orleans, Louisiana, and Baton Rouge, Louisiana; boarding house living; a visit to the Rawlings family; a fight with Mr. Blankman at his boarding house; his journey on the North Star with the Banks expedition; the re-occupation of Baton Rouge by Union forces; a visit to a sugar plantation in Louisiana; and Fanny Fern's daughter Grace Thomson's death. |
| Subject: | African Americans; Boardinghouses; Bohemians; Civil War; Gunn, Thomas Butler; Journalism; Military; Publishers and publishing; Transportation; Travel; Women |
| Coverage (City/State): | New York, New York; New Orleans, Louisiana; Baton Rouge, Louisiana |
| Note: | Thomas Butler Gunn was born February 15, 1826, in Banbury, England, and came to New York in 1849. During the Civil War he worked as a correspondent for the New York Tribune and the New York Evening Post. He returned to England in 1863, and died in Birmingham in April 1903. The collection includes twenty-one volumes of his diaries, including newspaper clippings, letters, photographs, sketches, and various other items inserted by Gunn. Diary entries date from July 7, 1849, to April 7, 1863, and include his experiences with the New York publishing and literary world, his descriptions of boarding houses, his travels throughout the United States, and his experiences traveling with the Federal army as a Civil War correspondent. |
| Publisher: | Missouri History Museum |
| Rights: | Copyright 2010 Missouri History Museum. |
| Source: | Page images, transcriptions, and metadata of the Thomas Butler Gunn diaries have been provided by the Missouri History Museum. |
