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Aug 3, 2022 · Major General Benjamin Butler will never be accused of cutting a dashing figure. But there is far more than meets the eye to the man who enraged New Orleans. (National Archives)
Oct 19, 2022 · Major General Benjamin Butler will never be accused of cutting a dashing figure. But there is far more than meets the eye to the man who enraged New Orleans. This article is a Civil War Times interview with Professor Elizabeth Leonard, author of the latest biography of Major General Benjamin F. Butler: [begin quote] CWT: TELL…
Benjamin Franklin Butler (November 5, 1818 – January 11, 1893) was an American major general of the Union Army, politician, lawyer, and businessman from Massachusetts.
May 22, 2018 · Was Major General Benjamin Franklin Butler’s reign as the Crescent City’s de facto dictator really as infamous as history has led us to believe?
- Gordon Berg
Aug 29, 2018 · Major General Benjamin Butler’s Bermuda Hundred Campaign in May of 1864 is often dismissed quickly and simply as a failure. Commentators usually invoke Major General U.S. Grant’s quote about a “bottle strongly corked.”
May 23, 2024 · Benjamin F. Butler was a controversial, self-aggrandizing, and colorful politician who served as a Union general during the American Civil War (1861–1865). A state senator in Massachusetts, Butler was a delegate to the 1860 Democratic National Convention, where he briefly supported Jefferson Davis. Always popular, he was nevertheless dogged ...
At the outbreak of the Civil War, Butler played an important role because he and the 8th Massachusetts were some of the first troops to reach Washington DC, protecting the capital in case Maryland seceded. He was appointed a major general on May 16, 1861, being one of the first appointed by President Abraham Lincoln.
