Front cover image for Lincoln's scapegoat general : a life of Benjamin F. Butler, 1818-1893

Lincoln's scapegoat general : a life of Benjamin F. Butler, 1818-1893

Biography which aims to disentangle Ben Butler from the myths that have grown up about him
Print Book, English, 1965
Houghton Mifflin, Boston, 1965
Biographies
xvi, 462 pages maps, portrait 22 cm
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Never pull a journalist's nose
Cross-eyed
Juliet
Radical reform
Ten-hour day
Political general
Relief of Washington
Butler seizes Baltimore
Butler's fugitive slave law
Enough rope
Recovery after Big Bethel
Launching the New Orleans expedition
New Orleans campaign
The woman order
Military government reforms
Shoestring offensive
Reconstruction
Commerce, consuls and the recall
Politics behind the lines
The Virginia Front
Bermuda Hundred
Prisoners and the exchange
Military vs. civil government
Finale at Fort Fisher
The radical congressman: the impeachment trail
The radical congressman: Reconstruction
The radical congressman: civil rights
The reform governor
Nomination for president: 1864
The People's Party campaign
Butlers book