Benjamin Franklin Butler letter, 1890 Mar. 1.

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Benjamin Franklin Butler letter, 1890 Mar. 1.

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Butler replies to a request for facts pertaining to the execution of William B. Mumford, referring the writer to James Parton's book, General Butler in New Orleans: History of the Administration of the Department of the Gulf in the year 1862 (New York, 1863).

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Mumford, William B. (William Bruce), d. 1862

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Parton, James, 1822-1891

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English-American writer. From the description of Papers of James Parton [manuscript] 1860-1893. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 647934391 Author. From the description of Letter of James Parton, 1875. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 79454871 Parton was an American biographer. His The life of Horace Greeley : editor of "The New-York tribune", from his birth to the present time was published in 1872 and his Life of Voltaire was published in 188...

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...