1. Benjamin F. Butler,Autobiography and Personal Reminiscences of Major-General Benjamin F. Butler; Butler's Book(Boston: A.M. Thayer, 1892), 377, 381.
2. See John D. Winters, The Civil War in Louisiana (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1963), 131
3. Gerald Mortimer Capers, Occupied City: New Orleans Under the Federals, 1862-1865 (Lexington, University of Kentucky Press, 1965), 176-78