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Here is the narrative of an English lady who was compelled to visit Paris on Easter Sunday, April 9, while it was under the administration of Cluseret. The streets she found for the most part silent and empty. There were a few omnibuses, filled with National Guards and men en blouse, and heavy ammunition-wagons under the disorderly escort of men in motley uniforms, with guns and bayonets.
I am warned that it is proposed to assassinate me. I shrug my shoulders. This morning I wrote my "Letter to the Germans." It will be sent tomorrow. Visit from General Cluseret. At 10 o'clock I went to the office of the Rappel to correct the proofs of my "Letter to the Germans." September 9. Received a visit from General Montfort.
The newspapers state that Delescluze, Cluseret, Félix Pyat, and Ranvier have been made prisoners, but the news is not officially confirmed. Firemen have been summoned by telegraph from all the districts around Paris. Fort Bicêtre has been occupied by the troops. It is stated that Raoul Rigault was shot this morning.
Central position of Marietta, Ohio Connection with all parts of West Virginia Drill and instruction of troops Guerilla warfare Partisan Rangers Confederate laws Disposal of plunder Mosby's Rangers as a type Opinions of Lee, Stuart, and Rosser Effect on other troops Rangers finally abolished Rival home-guards and militia Horrors of neighborhood war Staff and staff duties Reduction of forces General Cluseret Later connection with the Paris Commune His relations with Milroy He resigns Political situation Congressmen distrust Lincoln Cutler's diary Resolutions regarding appointments of general officers The number authorized by law Stanton's report Effect of Act of July, 1862 An excess of nine major-generals The legal questions involved Congressional patronage and local distribution Ready for a "deal" Bill to increase the number of generals A "slate" made up to exhaust the number Senate and House disagree Conference Agreement in last hours of the session The new list A few vacancies by resignation, etc.
Bertaux and the late Claude Vignon, wife of M. Rouvier, were both represented by good work the first and only women sculptors admitted to that gallery. At a breakfast party which we gave, I made the acquaintance of General Cluseret, who figured in our Civil War, afterward became War Minister of the Paris Commune, and is now member of the Chamber of Deputies.
Napoléon Gaillard, Director of the Barricades, was insubordinate at Satory, and was shot by the side of the fosse there. It is reported that Cluseret, Amouroux, and Clément, all members of the Commune, have been arrested. Fort d'Ivry has been evacuated by the Insurgents. They blew it up on leaving, and the troops have taken possession of it.
Certainly that Irish affair was a fiasco; but depend upon it you will hear of General Cluseret again." And so indeed I did, and so did the whole civilized world, and that within twelve months of the time of speaking; but there is no need to rewrite in this place the history of the Commune.
A personage who rose to great importance at this period was General Cluseret. He called himself an American, but he had had many aliases, and it is not known in what country he was born. At one time he had been a captain in the Chasseurs d'Afrique, but was convicted of dishonesty in the purchase of horses, and dismissed from the army.
Rossel, who succeeded Cluseret, was a real soldier, who tried in vain to organize the defence and to put experienced military men in command as subordinate generals. To do this he had to choose three out of five from men who were not Frenchmen. Dombrowski and Wroblewski were Poles, and General La Cecilia was an Italian.
Five were genuine working-men, three of whom were fierce, ignorant cobblers from Belleville; the other two were Assy, a machinist, and Thiez, a silver-chaser, one of the few honest men in the Council. Three were not Frenchmen, although generals; namely, Dombrowski, La Cecilia, and Dacosta, besides Cluseret, who claimed American citizenship.
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