Record Group 393: Records of U.S. Army Continental Commands, 1817 - 1947 Series: Letters Sent, 4/1864 - 12/1864 Item: Letter from Brigadier General Edward W. Hinks to Major General Benjamin Franklin Butler Requesting the Arming of His Colored Troops with the Spencer Repeating Rifle in Place of Their

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Record Group 393: Records of U.S. Army Continental Commands, 1817 - 1947 Series: Letters Sent, 4/1864 - 12/1864 Item: Letter from Brigadier General Edward W. Hinks to Major General Benjamin Franklin Butler Requesting the Arming of His Colored Troops with the Spencer Repeating Rifle in Place of Their Current Unreliable Weapons, 4/29/1864

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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...