Benjamin Butler New Orleans Unveiled

Benjamin Butler

Nice digs. Benjamin Butler's headquarters during the occupation of new Orleans.

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Bluebeard of New Orleans

Illustration of General Butler holding the mob in check at New Orleans

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General Benjamin Butler’s General Order Number 28

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Benjamin Butler: The Yankee Who Voted For Jefferson Davis - CIVIL WAR SAGA

In The End - Benjamin Butler Really was a Ladies Man | The Ladies Tea - War from a Feminine Perspective

Butler Snow New Orleans

When an angry Confederate sympathizer ran the Rebel colors up the flag pole at the U.S. Mint in Old New Orleans, Gen. Benjamin "Spoons" Butler had him hung from the pole. Read about the ghosts connected to this sad event in PURLOINED STORIES AND EARLY TALES OF OLD NEW ORLEANS!

Keeping Law and Order in New Orleans under General Butler, 1862 on JSTOR

Life And Public Services Of Major-General Butler (Benjamin F. Butler): The Hero Of New Orleans

In The End - Benjamin Butler Really was a Ladies Man | Ladies Tea - War from a Feminine Perspective

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Maj. Gen. Benjamin F. Butler declared slaves "contraband of war" (refusing to return them to Slave Owners). Mr Butler (who later became a member of the House of Reps & Governor of Mass), authored the KKK Act of 1871 (federal authority to prosecute & destroy the KKK). He ALSO authored the Civil Rights Act of 1875 (signed into law by Pres Grant)This final act of Reconstruction, gave African Americans the right to public accommodation (AKA hotels, restaurants, lodging & public entertainment).