Record Group 107: Records of the Office of the Secretary of War, 1791 - 1948 Series: Telegrams Sent and Received By The War Department Central Telegraph Office., 1861 - 1882 Item: Telegram from President Abraham Lincoln to Major General Benjamin Butler, 3/18/1864

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Record Group 107: Records of the Office of the Secretary of War, 1791 - 1948 Series: Telegrams Sent and Received By The War Department Central Telegraph Office., 1861 - 1882 Item: Telegram from President Abraham Lincoln to Major General Benjamin Butler, 3/18/1864

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Butler, Benjamin Franklin, 1818-1893

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Benjamin Franklin Butler was born in Deerfield, New Hampshire, the sixth and youngest child of John Butler and Charlotte Ellison Butler. His father served under General Andrew Jackson at the Battle of New Orleans during the War of 1812 and later became a privateer, dying of yellow fever in the West Indies not long after Benjamin was born. He was named after Founding Father Benjamin Franklin. His elder brother, Andrew Jackson Butler (1815–1864), would serve as a colonel in the Union Army during t...