Stormy Petrel: The Life and Times of General Benjamin F. Butler, 1818-1893Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 1969 - 335 pages |
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Page 71
... conduct was described by George Frisbee Hoar as having been " in honorable contrast to that of some of his influential polit- ical associates and that of some of the old Whigs who never got over their chagrin at the success of the ...
... conduct was described by George Frisbee Hoar as having been " in honorable contrast to that of some of his influential polit- ical associates and that of some of the old Whigs who never got over their chagrin at the success of the ...
Page 116
... conduct himself only because he had heard that General Irvin McDowell , commanding the Department of Northeastern Virginia , had re- cently been substantially ordered to forbid fugitive slaves to enter his lines.10 If he received a ...
... conduct himself only because he had heard that General Irvin McDowell , commanding the Department of Northeastern Virginia , had re- cently been substantially ordered to forbid fugitive slaves to enter his lines.10 If he received a ...
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... conduct . However , most of the things such people said about him that he was a tyrant , a sadist , a rapist , etc. - can be dis- missed , as they were by his northern contemporaries , as on a par with a story that fright occasioned by ...
... conduct . However , most of the things such people said about him that he was a tyrant , a sadist , a rapist , etc. - can be dis- missed , as they were by his northern contemporaries , as on a par with a story that fright occasioned by ...
Contents
Meet General Butler | 13 |
As the Twig is Bent | 20 |
A Practical Politician | 37 |
Copyright | |
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