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This reproduction Chamber Pot made exclusively for Confederate Memorial Hall, is hand thrown and one-of-a-kind. The likeness of General Butler is from the Museum’s photographic collection. Benjamin Franklin Butler was the first Civil War Union general to occupy New Orleans after the city surrendered in April of 1862.
Jun 13, 2022 · You’ve heard the tales of Maj. Gen. Benjamin “Beast” Butler in New Orleans, so reviled that they put his likeness in chamber pot. I finally had the chance to see one for myself today: Beast Butler at the bottom of chamber pot!
General Benjamin Butler chamber pots were produced in New Orleans after the city was occupied by Union soldiers under the command of General Benjamin Butler in 1862.
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During the occupation of the city Union troops were repeatedly insulted by New Orleans women and one woman went so far as to empty a chamber pot on an officer’s head from her window. The women hoped their actions would prompt a reaction from Union troops that would incite paroled Confederates to act.
Apr 21, 2014 · The Federal commander, one Benjamin F. Butler, issued an order stating any woman caught performing such a heinous act would be treated as a woman of the town plying her avocation. Well, suggesting that chamber-pot emptying southern ladies were prostitutes was a bit much, at least to the good citizens of the Crescent City.
Mar 7, 2012 · While walking with one of his subordinates in the French Quarter, Admiral Farragut was doused when a woman emptied her chamber pot as they passed beneath her balcony. To curb this behavior, Butler issued his infamous General Orders No. 28, known to historians as the “Woman Order.”
May 18, 2012 · David Farragut himself was targeted in one chamber pot attack. Library of Congress Gen. Benjamin Butler faces down the mob in New Orleans Butler quickly took draconian measures to subdue the...
