eye-brows are improved by art. But fine
eyes and hair go a good way towards
constituting beauty in a woman and
I was under the impression or near
it during the greater portion of the
evening. She sang several songs at
the piano, (her husband accompanying
her) and at my request did the
Bonny blue Flag the Louisiana
rebel one. Then we talked, parti-
cularly of Gen. Butler. He was
a pretty frequent visitor to the house
I sat in and very obliging and im-
pressible at the instance of Mrs
Harris. She went to him, first of
all, to inquire if they were to be turned
into the street, to which he
replied by a flattered negative. She
says that the General gave a pass
to a rebel officer concealed in her
house, allowing him to escape outside
the lines. (I fancy Old Ben was un-
scrupulous enough to do it.) He
| Page |
| Title: | Thomas Butler Gunn Diaries, Volume Twenty-Two: page sixty-one |
| Description: | Describes a visit to Mr. and Mrs. Harris in New Orleans. |
| Date: | 1863-02-10 |
| Subject: | Butler, Benjamin F.; Civil War; Gunn, Thomas Butler; Harris, Lizzie; Harris, T. Decatur; Songs; Women |
| Coverage (City/State): | [New Orleans, Louisiana] |
| Scan Date: | 2011-01-03 |
| Volume |
| Title: | Thomas Butler Gunn Diaries, Volume Twenty-Two |
| 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, as well as his preparations in New York for going back to England. |
| Subject: | Boardinghouses; Civil War; Gunn, Thomas Butler; Journalism; Military; 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 2011 Missouri History Museum. |
| Source: | Page images, transcriptions, and metadata of the Thomas Butler Gunn diaries have been provided by the Missouri History Museum. |
