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| Field name | Value |
|---|---|
| Collection Reference Number | GLC07053 |
| From Archive Folder | Unassociated Civil War Documents 1862 |
| Title | Benjamin F. Butler to G. C. Gardner defending his "woman order" |
| Date | 10 June 1862 |
| Author | Butler, Benjamin F. (Benjamin Franklin) (1818-1893) |
| Recipient | Gardner, G. C. |
| Document Type | Correspondence |
| Content Description | "The women more bitter in their secession than the men, were everywhere insulting my soldiers...tending to provoke retort recrimination and return of insult, which would have ended in disgraceful and murderous riot... how do you 'regard and treat' a lewd woman and her remarks?... After that order every man of my command was bound in honor not to notice any of these acts of these women." |
| Subjects | Civil War Military History Union General Union Forces Confederate States of America Mobs and Riots Women's History |
| People | Butler, Benjamin Franklin (1818-1893) Gardner, G. C. (fl. 1862) |
| Place written | New Orleans, Louisiana |
| Theme | The American Civil War; Women in American History |
| Sub-collection | Papers and Images of the American Civil War |
| Copyright | The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History |
| Module | Civil War, Reconstruction and the Modern Era: 1860-1945 |
| Civil War: Theater of War | Lower Seaboard Theater and Gulf Approach |