The Civil War produced its share of heroes as well as scoundrels. Consider the curious case of Union Gen. Benjamin Butler. He was dubbed “The Beast” in 1862 by Confederate New Orleanians humiliated by ...

When an escaped slave shows up at Fort Monroe demanding sanctuary, General Benjamin Butler is faced with an impossible moral dilemma—follow the letter of the law or make a game-changing move that ...

Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. One of the seminal moments in the movement to end slavery occurred in the early ...

LOWELL — More than 130 years after his death, the Sons of Union Veterans of the Civil War held their annual celebration of the birthday of Lowell native Union Gen. Benjamin Franklin Butler. Butler was ...

Why do people here hate Union Gen. Benjamin Butler? Didn't he fight for New Orleans? Dear Reader, More than 150 years after Benjamin Butler came and left, New Orleanians still tell stories of the ...

"Ben Butler and the Contrabands" is the topic for the April 15 meeting of the Harrisburg Civil War Round Table. John V. Quarstein, the director of the Virginia War Museum in Newport News, will speak.