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[Andy]

Now wait just a minute. Butler wasn't that bad. He was the one who came up with the idea that slaves in Yankee hands were contraband and thus free. Also, I've been to New Orleans and a lot of those ladies are "business women", at least in the French Quarter.
He wasn't a bad general, not compared to being Governor. Oh yes, he was Governor of Massachusetts 15 year after the war, after he had been in the House and tried to get rid of Johnson.

Nathan Banks was also from Mass. and hung out in New Orleans. Funny, no one ever talks about him but he was to the Union Army what Boss Tweed was to New York City.

Hey, lets change the subject, what about Gen. Bragg. Or even better, exactly why was Longstreet made a scapegoat after Gettysburg? Was the marble man flawed?

Stay healthy,
Andy
PS: It was the Great Rebellion, says so on the plaque on City Hall.