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Author Leonard, Elizabeth D., author.

Title Benjamin Franklin Butler : a noisy, fearless life / Elizabeth D. Leonard
Published Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2022]

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Description 1 online resource
Series Civil War America
Civil War America (Series)
Contents A Life Begins: 1818-1840 -- Butler's Antebellum Journey: 1840-1860 -- Into the Civil War: 1861-April 1862 -- New Orleans: April-December 1862 -- To Virginia and Beyond: 1863-1865 -- Reconstruction Congressman: 1865-1874 -- The Road to the Massachusetts State House: 1875-1882 -- The Final Journey: 1883-1893
Summary "Benjamin Franklin Butler was one of the most important and controversial military and political leaders of the Civil War and Reconstruction eras. Remembered most often for his uncompromising administration of the Federal occupation of New Orleans during the war, Butler reemerges in this lively narrative as a man whose journey took him from childhood destitution to wealth and profound influence in state and national halls of power. Prize-winning biographer Elizabeth Leonard chronicles Butler's successful career in the law defending the rights of the Lowell Mill girls and other workers, his achievements as one of Abraham Lincoln's premier civilian generals, and his role in developing wartime policy in support of slavery's fugitives as the nation advanced toward emancipation"-- Provided by publisher
Notes Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on June 28, 2022)
Subject Butler, Benjamin F. (Benjamin Franklin), 1818-1893.
SUBJECT Butler, Benjamin F. (Benjamin Franklin), 1818-1893
Butler, Benjamin F. (Benjamin Franklin), 1818-1893 fast
Subject Generals -- United States -- Biography
Statesmen -- United States -- Biography
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Political.
Statesmen
Generals
SUBJECT United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Biography. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140214
Subject United States
Genre/Form Electronic books
History
Biographies
Biographies.
Biographies.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781469668062
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9781469668055
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