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" As the officers and soldiers of the United States have been subject to repeated insults from the women (calling themselves ladies ) of New Orleans, in return for the most scrupulous non-interference and courtesy on our part, it is ordered that hereafter... "
General Orders - Page 11
by United States. Army. Department of the Gulf (1862-1865). - 1862
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The American domination, pt. 2, 1861-1903

Alcée Fortier - Louisiana - 1904 - 386 pages
...women (calling themselves ladies) of New Orleans, in return for the most scrupulous non-interference and courtesy on our part, it is ordered that hereafter...the United States, she shall be regarded and held liable to be treated as a woman of the town plying her avocation. This infamous order excited the greatest...
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History of the Twentieth Tennessee Regiment Volunteer Infantry, C.S.A.

William Josiah McMurray - Tennessee - 1904 - 596 pages
...Papers," page 77.) Butler's infamous order No. 28, directing that " any lady of New Orleans who should by word, gesture, or movement insult or show contempt for any officer or soldier of the United States, shall be regarded and treated as a woman of the town, plying her avocation," not only infuriated the...
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The Civil War from a Southern Standpoint

William Robertson Garrett, Robert Ambrose Halley - History - 1905 - 640 pages
...women (calling themselves ladies) of New Orleans, in return for the most scrupulous non-interference and courtesy on our part, it is ordered that hereafter...the United States, she shall be regarded and held liable to be treated as a woman of the town plying her avocation. " By command of Maj.-Gen. Butler,...
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The History of North America, Volume 14

Indians of North America - 1905 - 762 pages
...women (calling themselves ladies) of New Orleans, in return for the most scrupulous non-interference and courtesy on our part, it is ordered that hereafter...the United States, she shall be regarded and held liable to be treated as a woman of the town plying her avocation. " By command of Maj.-Gen. Butler,...
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A Diary from Dixie

Mary Boykin Chesnut - Biography & Autobiography - 1905 - 484 pages
...women (calling themselves ladies) of New Orleans, in return for the most scrupulous non-interference and courtesy on our part, it is ordered that hereafter...word, gesture, or movement, insult or show contempt BUTLER AT NEW ORLEANS the women of New Orleans to his soldiers. Thus is the measure of his iniquities...
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The Women of the Confederacy: In which is Presented the Heroism of the Women ...

John Levi Underwood - United States - 1906 - 332 pages
...women (calling themselves ladies) of New Orleans in return for the most scrupulous noninterference and courtesy on our part, it is ordered that hereafter...the United States, she shall be regarded and held liable to be treated as a woman of the town plying her avocation. By Command of Major General Butler....
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1861-1906

Edwin Emerson - History, Modern - 1906 - 562 pages
...the city clean and averted a pestilence. For his Order No. 15, "that when any female shall by word or gesture or movement insult or show contempt for any officer or soldier, she shall be held and regarded as a woman of the town plying her trade," he received throughout the...
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The Confederate Cause and Conduct in the War Between the States: As Set ...

Hunter McGuire, George Llewellyn Christian - Confederate States of America - 1907 - 260 pages
...BOILER'S ORDER. Butler's infamous order No. 28, directing that any lady of New Orleans who should " by word, gesture or movement insult or show contempt...soldier of the United States, she shall be regarded and treated as a woman of the town, plying her avocation," not only infuriated the people of the South...
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Robert E. Lee, the Southerner

Thomas Nelson Page - Generals - 1908 - 344 pages
...In his infamous " Order 28 " he had ordered that any woman in New Orleans who should " by word, or gesture, or movement insult or show contempt for any officer or soldier of the United States, should be regarded and treated as a woman of the town, plying her avocation." t " Official Report of...
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The South in the Building of the Nation: History of the states, ed. by J. A ...

Julian Alvin Carroll Chandler, Franklin Lafayette Riley, James Curtis Ballagh, John Bell Henneman, Edwin Mims, Thomas Edward Watson, Samuel Chiles Mitchell, Walter Lynwood Fleming, Joseph Walker McSpadden - American literature - 1909 - 560 pages
...women (calling themselves ladies) of New Orleans, in return for the most scrupulous non-interference and courtesy on our part, it is ordered that hereafter...of the United States she shall be regarded and held liable to be treated as a woman of the town plying her avocation." The order aroused indignation not...
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