2025-01 Raynors Historical Collectible Auctions
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 1/25/2025
Benjamin Franklin Butler (1818-1893) was an American major general of the Union Army, politician, lawyer, and businessman from Massachusetts. Early in the Civil War he joined the Union Army, where he was noted for his lack of military skill and his controversial command of New Orleans, which made him widely disliked in the South and earned him the "Beast" epithet. Although freeing an enemy's slaves had occurred in previous wars, Butler came up with the idea of doing so by designating them as contraband of war, an idea that the Lincoln administration endorsed and that played a role in making emancipation an official war goal. Butler was dismissed from the Union Army after his failures in the First Battle of Fort Fisher. A pair of signatures on clipped paper, each 4” x 2-3/4”. The first, “Yours Truly, Benj. F. Butler”. ... plus, “Benj. F. Butler, Mass”.
Click on a thumbnail above to display a larger image below
Hold down the mouse button and slide side to side to see more thumbnails(if available).
Click above for larger image.