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	Benjamin Franklin Butler (politician) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Governor John A. Andrew sent Butler with a force of Massachusetts troops to reopen communication between the Union states and Washington, D.C. By his energetic and careful work Butler achieved his purpose without fighting, and he was soon afterwards appointed major general of U.S. Volunteers.
		Assigned command of Fort Monroe, Butler declined to return to their owners fugitive slaves who had come within his lines, on the ground that, as laborers for fortifications, and so on, they were contraband of war, thus originating the phrase contraband as applied to African-Americans.
		In the spring of 1864 Butler was placed at the head of the Army of the James and ordered to attack in the direction of Richmond from the east, destroying rail links and distracting Robert E. Lee, in conjunction with attacks from the north by Ulysses S. Grant.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Benjamin_Franklin_Butler_(politician) (909 words)

	Butler
		Major-General Benjamin Franklin Butler, in command of the Army of the James, was a former lawyer and Democratic politician.
		Butler was described as "plug-ugly" by some, overbearing by most, and a few people would even admit that the General was resourceful, flexible and had a quick mind.
		Butler did not suffer disobedience well however, and his harsh and bizarre methods of dealing with insubordination were legendary.
	home.mindspring.com /~mtmitchell/Butler.html (926 words)

	Benjamin Butler
		Benjamin Butler is believed by several researchers to have been the head of this particular family of Butlers in South Carolina.
		On 13 November 1764, Benjamin was bondsman for the marriage of Thomas Auberry and Ann Fletcher.
		A Benjamin Butler was born 7 January 1765 in Culpeper, who enlisted in the military there in 1781 under Col. James Slaughter.
	myweb.cableone.net /dixonj/benjamin_butler.htm (1592 words)

	BENJAMIN FRANKLIN BUTLER - LoveToKnow Article on BENJAMIN FRANKLIN BUTLER (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		After the Baltimore riot at the opening of the Civil War, Butler, as a brigadier-general in the state militia, was sent by Governor John A. Andrew,with a force of Massachusetts troops, to reopen communication between the Union states and the Federal capital.
		In the conduct of tactical operations Butler was almost uniformly unsuccessful, and his first action at Big Bethel, Va., was a humiliating defeat for the National arms.
		See James Parton, Butler in New Orleans (New York, 1863), which, however, deals inadequately with the charges brought against Butler; and The Autobiography and Personal Reminiscences of Major-General B. Butler: Butlers Book (New York, 1893), to be used with caution as regards facts.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /B/BU/BUTLER_BENJAMIN_FRANKLIN.htm (533 words)

	Benjamin F. Butler - Likeness of New Hampshire War Heroes & Personages (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Butler allied himself with the new Free Soil Party, "and on election day, November 10, 1851, the town of Lowell cast 8,000 votes in a district of 800 registered voters.....When the error was discovered the Whigs demanded a revote....." (Hearn op cit., p.
		Butler was colonel of the Lowell City Guard, however, so no militia showed up, and the meeting was such a success that Butler was carried on the shoulders of the multitude who came to hear him.
		Butler got four percent of the vote; but with the nation soon to be at war Butler battled with Massachusetts Governor Andrew and got permission to raise a state regiment which would help ensure order at Lincoln's inauguration.
	www.state.nh.us /nhdhr/warheroes/butlerb.html (1145 words)

	Benjamin Butler (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Butler’s most famous (or infamous) connection with the war was his controversial tenure as commander of the occupation forces in New Orleans in 1862.
		In late 1863, Butler was given the command of the Department of Virginia and North Carolina.
		Butler was an almost perennial candidate for governor of Massachusetts, running unsuccessfully in 1871, 1873, 1874, 1878, and 1879, before being elected in 1882.
	www.impeach-andrewjohnson.com /11BiographiesKeyIndividuals/BenjaminButler.htm (453 words)

	THE BUTLER GENEALOGY HOMEPAGE
		Benjamin B. Butler was born ABT 1819 possibly in Ohio.
		Norman Bernard Butler was born in June of 1852 in Cass County Michigan.
		Benjamin Jobe Butler was born on July 6, 1854 in Cass County, Michigan.
	www.geocities.com /Heartland/4190/butler.htm (1935 words)

	Cape Ann Historical Museum: General Benjamin Butler
		The subject was Butler’s role in advancing the rights of freed slaves: "This, to give the Beast, as well as the devil, his due, is the work of General Butler.
		Butler’s “face” - never considered his greatest asset - is the subject of an 1869 portrait by A. Wiggin which is part of the Museum’s collections.
		Butler bought the America in 1873 and sailed her out of Gloucester harbor until his death in 1893.
	www.capeannhistoricalmuseum.org /granite/butler.htm (505 words)

	BENJAMIN FRANKLIN BUTLER, USA
		Benjamin Franklin Butler was born in November 5, 1818, on Deerfield, New Hampshire.
		Butler was also known as "Beast" Butler, and became the center of national controversy when he issued his "woman's order." Many women of New Orleans had been insulting and verbally abusing Union soldiers.
		Butler's forces were reduced, and he was transferred briefly to New York.
	www.multied.com /Bio/UGENS/USAButler.html (585 words)

	Benjamin Franklin Butler (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Benjamin Franklin Butler in his infamous General Orders no. 28, issued in New orleans on May 15, 1862.
		Butler's outrageous threat to treat these women as common whores had the desired effect of stopping the insults.
		The nickname "Beast Butler" was bestowed on the general, and Confederate President Jefferson Davis declared him to be an outlaw to be executed when caught.
	civilwar.bluegrass.net /OfficersAndEnlistedMen/benjaminfranklinbutler.html (279 words)

	Benjamin Butler
		Butler was a brigadier general in the Massachusetts militia and during the Fort Sumter crisis rushed his unit to protect Washington.
		Butler refused, issuing a statement that he considered the slaves to be "contraband of war".
		Butler was accused of treating Rebels very harshly and after ordering the execution of a man who had torn down the United States flag, he was nicknamed the "beast".
	www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk /USASbutlerB.htm (2922 words)

	AllRefer.com - Benjamin Franklin Butler, 1818–93, American politician and Union general in the Civil War (U.S. ...
		He was elected to the state legislature in 1852 and 1858 and ran unsuccessfully for governor in 1859 and 1860.
		In May, 1864, as commander of the Army of the James, Butler was defeated by Beauregard at Drewry's Bluff and was bottled up at Bermuda Hundred until Grant crossed the James in June.
		Butler was (1877–79) an independent Greenbacker in Congress.
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/B/ButlrB1818.html (486 words)

	Beers: Butler p. 814
		IRA M. BUTLER is of Welsh descent, his grandfather, Benjamin Butler, having been a native of Wales.
		The Butler family settled in Lancaster county, Penn., and there secured 1,000 acres of land, part of which was in Chester county.
		Benjamin Butler was married in this country, and reared his family on the farm, but finally deciding to move to Ohio, sold the place, and purchased farms for the children.
	www.chartiers.com /beers-project/articles/butler-814.html (546 words)

	Benjamin Butler (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Benjamin Butler's second solo show at Team continues the artist's explorations within a largely marginalized genre for young painters.
		Butler's ability to negotiate the demarcation of representation and abstraction remains the driving force behind his practice.
		By turns, quaint and psychedelic, rigorous and improvised, Butler's tree paintings connect on an emotional level eschewing coldness and distance for a glimpse of the tender resonances of the banal.
	www.teamgal.com /butler/new.html (389 words)

	American President (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Benjamin Butler was born on December 17, 1795, in Kinderhook Landing, New York.
		A descendant of Oliver Cromwell, Butler attended Hudson Academy, studied law, and was admitted to the New York bar 1817.
		Butler refused appointment to the New York Supreme Court but would serve as U.S. attorney general in the administrations of Presidents Andrew Jackson and Martin Van Buren (1833-1838).
	www.americanpresident.org /history/andrewjackson/cabinet/SecretaryofWar/BenjaminFButler (179 words)

	Benjamin Franklin Butler
		BUTLER, Benjamin Franklin, lawyer, born in Deerfield, New Hampshire, 5 November, 1818.
		On 10 May, 1862, General Butler seized about $800,000 which had been deposited in the office of the Dutch consul, claiming that arms for the confederates were to be bought with it.
		On 16 December, 1862, General Butler was recalled, as he believes, at the instigation of Louis Napoleon, who supposed the general to be hostile to his Mexican schemes.
	www.famousamericans.net /benjaminfranklinbutler1 (973 words)

	Union Perspective
		Butler, more of a politician than a general, was proposing to take two corps and stike north of the James River at Robert E. Lee's works - a plan that had been tried twice before - and failed.
		Butler, who had had no hand in the attack, was incensed.
		Butler was an inept and controversial general - in May, he had assaulted Drewry's Bluff from the south, in the hopes of breaking the Confederate line and achieving a clear road to Richmond.
	www.nps.gov /rich/union.htm (2508 words)

	MATHEW BRADY GALLERY, NY - Benjamin Butler (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Before the Civil War began, Benjamin Butler was an able criminal lawyer, a brash, articulate Massachusetts legislator, a friend to labor and to his Catholic constituents, a Democrat, and a supporter of the Union.
		Throughout the war, Butler was an advocate for the rights of former slaves; he supported the establishment of African American regiments, and forced the Confederacy to recognize the military status of fl Union soldiers.
		In 1865, Butler continued his political career as a radical member of the Republican party, and a Congressman from Massachusetts.
	www.npg.si.edu /exh/brady/gallery/55gal.html (210 words)

	Benjamin Butler's Woman's Order
		Benjamin F. Butler on his occupation of New Orleans in April of 1862, was the abuse his soldiers endured from patriotic Confederate women.
		Bitterly resentful of the Union occupation, whenever any of Butler's men were present they would contemptuously gather in their skirts, cross streets, flee rooms, cast hateful glances, or make derisive comments.
		Butler's men showed remarkable restraint against the insults, but he realized that it was only a matter of time until one of them, pressed too far, would arrest some female belligerent.
	www.civilwarhome.com /butlerwomanorder.htm (447 words)

	Green Mountain Civil War Round Table
		The title is somewhat misleading in that the biography begins with Benjamin Franklin Butler's ancestors and tells of his early education.
		In 1863, Gen. Butler was at his home in Lowell, Massachusetts, in the euphemism of the day, awaiting orders; his 'wilderness' year.
		Butler took away the flag of the 7th VT Inf.
	www.beerbritain.com /ButlerinNewOrleans.htm (830 words)

	Savage, John S. 1800-1847: BUTLER Family (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Sarah Butler was born in South Carolina 12 February 1792.
		Jehu Butler was born in South Carolina 17 February 1800.
		Milley Butler was born in South Carolina 13 December 1806.
	home.teclink.net /~savage1/i0002511.htm (740 words)

	Mr. Lincoln's White House: Benjamin Butler (1818-1893)
		Butler ran unsuccessfully for governor of Massachusetts in 1860 as a Breckinridge Democrat.
		Butler denied presidential ambitions and the President tried to keep him happy with other military employment until General Grant removed him from command in early 1865.
		After the Civil War, Butler served as a Radical Republican (1867-75) and a Greenback (1882-83) in Congress, Democratic Governor of Massachusetts (1883-84) and Greenback Party candidate for President in 1884.
	www.mrlincolnswhitehouse.org /inside.asp?ID=131&subjectID=2 (540 words)

	Benjamin Franklin Butler (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Ben Butler really didn’t care that he was a bad general; he was a good politician, and knew that he had to be a general to have the sort of post-war career he wanted.
		Butler made a vital decision: he refused to enforce the Fugitive Slave Act, instead declaring runaways “contraband of war”, thus admitting there was a war and simultaneously making it about slavery rather than states’ rights.
		Butler simply ordered that any woman who insulted or showed contempt for U.S. personnel be treated as a prostitute.
	ehistory.osu.edu /uscw/features/people/bio.cfm?PID=16 (914 words)

	Benjamin Butler
		Butler's army was sent to the Mississippi coast and in May, 1862, they captured New Orleans.
		Butler opposed the policies of President Andrew Johnson and argued in Congress that Southern plantations should be taken from their owners and divided among the former slaves.
		The Radical Republicans were angry that not all the Republican Party voted for a conviction and Butler claimed that Johnson had bribed two of the senators who switched their votes at the last moment.
	www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk /USAbutlerB.htm (2998 words)

	Butler, William Allen (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		His father, Benjamin Franklin Butler was Attorney-General during President Jackson's administration, and according to a short biographical profile of Irving Browne which appeared in the Green Bag in 1897 and would, reportedly, "on one day would pen an opinion for a department, and on the next a poem for the 'Democratic Review'.
		Butler graduated from the University of the City of New York in 1843, read law in his father's office, and was admitted to practice law in July 1846.
		Butler served his alma mater in various capacities and went on to become President of the university.
	www.wvu.edu /~lawfac/jelkins/lp-2001/butler_w_a.html (644 words)

	Encyclopedia: Benjamin Franklin Butler (politician) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Governor John A. Andrew sent Butler with a force of Massachusetts troops to reopen communication between the Union states and the Federal capital.
		By his energetic and careful work Butler achieved his purpose without fighting, and he was soon afterwards appointed major general of U.S. Volunteers.
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	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Benjamin-Franklin-Butler-(politician) (3262 words)

	Benjamin Butler (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Benjamin Butler's show of paintings and drawings is his first solo exhibition.
		Butler's Mountain Paintings found their genesis in an entirely personal event -- the artist was asked by his grandmother if it might be possible for him to make her a landscape painting.
		Butler's attempts to perform this simple favor developed into the rigor of his studio practice.
	www.teamgal.com /butler/firstshow.html (356 words)

	BUTLER TRIMBLE COUNTY GENEALOGY
		Benjamin Franklin “Ben” Butler was born on the 26th of November 1860 on the Pendleton Farm in Trimble County, Kentucky.
		Mark Collis Butler, Junior relates in "The Butler & Farley Families of Trimble County, Kentucky" that "Joseph Forest and Nancy Jane Pendleton Butler were last mentioned as newly married and living with her parents on the Pendleton Farm.
		Five years later Joseph F. Butler and his wife Nancy Jane Pendleton Butler strike out on their own by purchasing a farm in the Liberty neighborhood of Trimble County where a fifteen year-old Ben is probably setting the tobacco plants or pruning fruit trees on his father’s fine farm of 147 acres.
	www.ole.net /~maggie/trimble/butler.htm (1134 words)

	Knox County, Ohio, Mt. Vernon, History (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Benjamin Butler was born in Monongalia county, Virginia.
		Benjamin Butler's share or part is that which lies south of High street and east of Market street, all of which shares and divisions are to be held by the said Thomas, Joseph and Benjamin, and their heirs or assigns in severalty forever.
		Butler, who then kept a sort of tavern; James Craig, who kept some sort of refreshments and whiskey, on the corner, east side of Mulberry and north of Wood street; and another family, who lived south of Craig's on the opposite side of the street.
	www.heritagepursuit.com /Knox/KnoxFile4.htm (17838 words)

	Benjamin Butler by Edward Augustus Brackett
		Union general Benjamin Franklin Butler was something of a novelty.
		An arch Democrat fighting a Republican war, Butler was a politician in military garb.
		Butler may have posed for it during one of his leaves from the army over the previous two years.
	www.civilwar.si.edu /leaders_butler.html (196 words)

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