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FORAGING IN LOUISIANA.
WE give on the
preceding page a
spirited illustration of the war in Louisiana, showing the manner in which the
army is at times furnished with supplies. Necessarily, in advancing into the
enemy's country, our forces are obliged to depend in some degree upon the
resources of the region occupied for supplies of beef, etc., and probably no
experiences are more pleasurable and full of excitement than those which are
ordinarily encountered in expeditions such as our artist has presented.
JOHN
MINOR
BOTTS.
JOHN MINOR BOTTS, whose portrait
we give on this page, and who occupied for many years a distinguished position
in American politics, was born in Dumfries, Prince William County, Virginia, on
the 16th of September, 1802. He early entered upon political life, attaching
himself to the Whig party when, in 1834, it assumed its definite form, and
becoming from the first one of its most ardent and prominent supporters. The
previous year he was elected to the Virginia Legislature, and was afterward
several times re-elected. In 1839 he was elected to Congress, and there
distinguished himself as an advocate of a national bank, a protective tariff,
and other measures of which HENRY CLAY was the great originator and expounder.
In 1843 he was not re-
turned to Congress, but four
years after he was elected to that body for the third time. After the death
of Mr. CLAY he attached himself
to the American party, as a member of which he opposed the repeal
of the Missouri Compromise, and
sympathized with those Southern members of Congress who opposed
the passage of the Lecompton bill
in 1858. Upon the secession of Virginia he fell under suspicion on account of
his known hostility to the movement, and for some time after war had broken out
was held under close surveillance by the rebel authorities. being once or twice
arrested by military direction. He has steadily refused to lend his support to
the rebel movement, but at the same time has refrained from any distinct avowals
justifying arbitrary measures on the part of the Richmond Government, which,
probably remembering his great popularity, has hesitated to visit upon him the
punishment which it has no doubt desired to inflict. Since our army has occupied
the Rapidan his house at Culpepper has at all times been open to our officers,
many of whom have been entertained with lavish hospitality. His last
entertainment was given on the 28th of April, when Generals GRANT, SEDGWICK,
HANCOCK, BIRNEY, HUMPHREYS, GIBBON, and
some others were present, the affair being, in the language of a report, " of
the most sumptuous character."
ARMY WORKSHOPS.
WE give below a view of the
Work-Shops of the Army of the Potomac. As illustrating the manner in which
necessary repairs are made at the head-quarters of an army, the picture is full
of interest. Our sketch is made from a photo-
graph furnished us by our artist,
A. R. Waud, at the Army head-quarters.
JOHN MINOR BOTTS.
WORK-SHOPS--HEAD-QUARTERS ARMY OF THE POTOMAC
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