Benjamin F. Butler cartoon, circa 1862.

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Benjamin F. Butler cartoon, circa 1862.

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Political cartoon of General Benjamin F. Butler, commander of the United States military government in New Orleans, La., during the Civil War.

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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...