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Newsboys' risky haul from Butler camp ends with Beauregard mercy
Two young newsboys describe their midnight raid into General Butler’s abandoned camp near Shippen’s farm during the Petersburg siege. They carry coffee tea and a flag, are captured by a Confederate corporal, and are pardoned after General Beauregard questions them and orders their return home in his ambulance.
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B. F. Butler
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Butler's Kitchen
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