Tag Archives: Benjamin Franklin Butler

Putting Mouth Where Money Is

Posted on January 10, 2013 by SUMPTER

According to Wikipedia The three major tasks of the Confederate Navy during the whole of its existence were the protection of Southern harbors and coastlines from outside invasion, making the war costly for the United States by attacking U.S. merchant … Continue reading →

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Just us and the Yankees

Posted on November 2, 2012 by SUMPTER

Richmond Rhetoric: don’t have false confidence in foreign intervention Recently The Civil War 150th Blog posted that in October 1862 France’s Napoleon III proposed that European powers intervene in the Civil War with diplomacy – getting both North and South … Continue reading →

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First Louisiana Native Guard

Posted on September 27, 2012 by SUMPTER

According to Historynet, 150 years ago today the 1st Louisiana Native Guard became the first African-American regiment accepted into United States service. It was organized by Ben Butler during his military supervision of New Orleans. You can see more images … Continue reading →

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Be careful what you pray for

Posted on June 12, 2012 by SUMPTER

From the Richmond Daily Dispatch June 12, 1862: How the people are to pray. Usurping the prerogative of the Almighty, as will be seen by the following order, our enemies have undertaken to prescribe the from and the substantiae of … Continue reading →

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Big Bad Bronze John

Posted on May 14, 2012 by SUMPTER

The “intolerant” Yankees are occupying New Orleans just in time for Yellow Fever season; what’s more they are putting a hospital right in a heavily populated section of the city. From the Richmond Daily Dispatch May 14, 1862: Advance of … Continue reading →

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Bombastes Furioso Butler

Posted on May 9, 2012 by SUMPTER

The gradual, persistent constriction of Anaconda: the Yankees and General Butler have control of New Orleans 150 years ago now. The Dispatch calls names. How can that “oleaginous carcass” be running the South’s largest city? From the Richmond Daily Dispatch … Continue reading →

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Big Tow Operation

Posted on April 5, 2012 by SUMPTER

150 years ago this fortnight a native son of Seneca Falls, New York wrote some letters home from far, far away at the mouth of the Mississippi River. JOHN was a mate in the Union navy that was preparing for … Continue reading →

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Warm Clothes Needed for ‘Refugee’ Rebel Soldiers

Posted on November 25, 2011 by SUMPTER

We’ve seen the Union military ask Northerners to make mittens for its troops as the weather gets colder. Here a Richmond paper is asking citizens to send warm clothing to the troops from the burned down Hampton, Virginia. From the … Continue reading →

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“this war must go on”

Posted on September 9, 2011 by SUMPTER

It’s election season once again. In this letter, General Benjamin F. Butler, during the Union combined navy-army operation against Cape Hatteras, responds to those who want to know if he is interested in opposing the Republican Massachusetts Governor John Andrew … Continue reading →

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