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Butler, Benjamin F. Butler, Benjamin F. (1818–1893), Civil War general and politician.A prominent Democratic lawyer in Lowell, Massachusetts, militia Brigadier General Butler was given command of the state's troops in 1861 in order to rally Democrats to the Union cause. After relieving Washington by way of Annapolis, he secured Baltimore, was ...
Mar 15, 2023 · Benjamin Butler I know, Butler’s been turned into a joke of sorts. But what we mostly know about Butler is what the moonlight and magnolias crowd have told us: He was coarse, stupid, and unskilled, a petty thief with googly eyes; he was BEAST Butler, SPOONS Butler; he allowed himself to get bottled up in Bermuda Hundred, for God’s sake!
Pierpont, Francis H. Letter of Governor Pierpont to his Excellency the President of the United States on the Subject of Abuse of Military Power in the Command of General Butler in Virginia and North. Carolina. Wash, DC: McGill & Witherow, 1864. 51 p. E467.1B87P72pam9.
May 15, 2023 · Benjamin Franklin Butler was born on November 5, 1818, to John Butler and Charlotte Ellison Butler in Deerfield, New Hampshire. The elder Butler served under Gen. Andrew Jackson at the Battle of New Orleans and died around the time of Benjamin’s birth. As a child, Butler was unhealthy and disfigured by a drooping eyelid and severe strabismus.
May 21, 2018 · Benjamin Franklin Butler achieved prominence as a politician and military officer. Butler was born November 5, 1818, in Deer-field, New Hampshire . After graduating in 1838 from Waterbury College, now known as Colby College, Butler was admitted to the Massachusetts bar in 1840.
May 24, 2022 · Benjamin Butler was the most maddening, cantankerous, disagreeable Union General and anti-slavery advocate in the Civil War. Eventually breaking away from both the Republican and Democratic parties when he felt they betrayed the principles of equality.
- Elizabeth D. Leonard
May 15, 2024 · Major-General Benjamin F. Butler, commanding the Federal Army of the James, had landed at Bermuda Hundred, 15 miles southeast of Richmond and seven miles northeast of Petersburg. He opted not to attack either city, but instead to destroy the Richmond & Petersburg Railroad that connected them.
