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LINCOLN'S SCAPEGOAT GENERAL, by Richard S. West Jr. Next to McClellan, the Union's most controversial Civil War general was Benjamin ("Beast") Butler. Like McClellan, he was weak in the field, but he was an efficient military governor of New Orleans and a doughty champion of liberal causes during the Reconstruction...
Seeking the Scapegoat. It was. For as morning became afternoon, and afternoon became evening, there was no Kasavubu-and in fact no voting. Throughout the city, not a single polling place opened its doors. At some there were no ballot boxes, at others no pencils. Almost none had received the voting sheets for all 43 contending parties. Frantic district poll officials swarmed to the headquarters of the electoral commission on the Avenue des Victimes de la Rébellion to find out what was wrong. They blanched at the scene: small boys toting huge piles of ballots dumped their loads...
LINCOLN'S SCAPEGOAT GENERAL, by Richard S. West Jr. "The Beast"-Benjamin Butler-was one of the Civil War's toughest Northern generals. He earned Southerners' undying hatred as the governor of occupied New Orleans, became a fervent champion of liberal causes during the Reconstruction. West succeeds admirably in separating an unusual man from the usually accepted image of the Beast...
...wonder, then, that voters took revenge on the one scapegoat available--the Governor. Such was the Governor's plight through the disastrous elections of 1962. What happened, then, to rescue the Governors in November...
LINCOLN'S SCAPEGOAT GENERAL, by Richard S. West Jr. Benjamin Butler-"The Beast"-was one of the Civil War's toughest Northern generals. A famed criminal lawyer in private life, he earned Southerners' undying hatred as the harsh but generally fair governor of occupied New Orleans, later became an impassioned champion of liberal causes during the Reconstruction. Historian West succeeds admirably in separating an unusual man from the usually accepted Beast...