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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Author West, professor of history at the U.S. Naval Academy at Annapolis and a Southerner himself, was not attracted to Butler by hero worship. "I wanted to take on the meanest damned rascal I could find," West explains. But in sorting through the myths, West discovered that beneath the Beast's rapacious exterior dwelt a man of wit, large ideas and generous humanitarianism...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Booty & the Beast | 3/19/1965 | See Source »

...looked like Ben Turpin in uniform: a massive head, topping out at 5 ft. 4 in., rimmed with wild auburn hair and set with droop-lidded eyes that flashed balefully in opposite directions. He was called "the Beast," and "Old Cockeye"-though rarely to his face. For Benjamin Franklin Butler was one of the Civil War's toughest and most hated Northern generals...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Booty & the Beast | 3/19/1965 | See Source »

Whipped in the Field. When the Civil War broke out, Ben Butler was New England's most famous criminal lawyer, a raspy-voiced Democrat who had long crusaded for shorter working hours and the secret ballot. Lincoln needed all the Democratic trimmings he could get in the war, and since Butler was incidentally a brigadier of the state militia, Lincoln dispatched him to Maryland, which was threatening to secede. Butler seized Annapolis and then, in a lightning move by night, occupied mutinous Baltimore...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Booty & the Beast | 3/19/1965 | See Source »

...flush of success, Butler sent poorly officered troops into combat at Big Bethel-the war's first battle-and got whipped. Though Big Bethel was soon forgotten in the greater Union calamity at Bull Run, it established Butler's reputation as an inept field commander. But when New Orleans was taken, Butler was sent to take over the occupation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Booty & the Beast | 3/19/1965 | See Source »

...Woman Order. New Orleans' haughty grandes dames scorned the occupying Union Forces, spat at the blue-coats passing in the streets. Rather than jail these indelicate flowers of Southern womanhood, Butler hit on a stratagem: any woman who insulted Union officers in the streets would be "treated as a woman of the town plying her avocation." To Southerners, this "Woman Order" sounded like an invitation to rape (though no incidents developed), and the Confederacy proclaimed Butler an "outlaw" to be hanged...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Booty & the Beast | 3/19/1965 | See Source »

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