New Orleans collection 1864-1910.

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New Orleans collection 1864-1910.

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Military reports, letterpress books, sheet music and newspaper clippings relate to the mutiny on board the San Antonio, 1842; business of the Customs House, 1870-1873; the Battle of New Orleans, 1864; and the hanging of Union soldier W.H. Mumford, 1864, by order of Union General Benjamin F. Butler, for tearing down a Confederate flag, ripping it into pieces and passing them out in a crowd.

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San Antonio (Ship)

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Mumford, W. H.

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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...