Where generals find eternal rest

Caroline McCloy unlocks an iron gate that creaks rustily as she pushes it open. The gate leads to a private path beside the Hildreth Cemetery off Hildreth Street.

[Roger Lamothe]

I must say Ms McCloy looks quite well in the slide show for an "ancestor" of the Generals! Perhaps the captions should read "descendant"?

[J Breen]

Wasn't the public Hildreth cemetery given not to Lowell but to the Town of Dracut?

[Jacqueline Boucher]

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[resqume]

Ole Ben Butler had a very humorous nick name during the Civil War, He was not so affectionately known as "Spoons" Butler due to His pillaging of the South duriong the War and the systematic robbing of homes during His march through the South and taking anything of value, including all the silver and gold he could carry and had it brought back north for His personal enjoyment.

[True History]

resqume wrote:

Ole Ben Butler had a very humorous nick name during the Civil War, He was not so affectionately known as "Spoons" Butler due to His pillaging of the South duriong the War and the systematic robbing of homes during His march through the South and taking anything of value, including all the silver and gold he could carry and had it brought back north for His personal enjoyment.

While military provost of New Orleans, Butler was so hated by the citizens that the bottoms of chamber pots (b4 indoor plumbing) were painted with his likeness. One night, while strolling the French Quarter with his adjutants, a working girl emptied her chamberport from a 2nd floor balcony onto Butler resulting in his General Order that any unaccompanied woman was a woman of the street plying her trade and subject to arrest.
Butler was a poor General and even worse human being.

[Jacqueline Boucher]

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[Valeria Palmer]

"Ole Ben Butler had a very humorous nick name during the Civil War, He was not so affectionately known as "Spoons" Butler "

This canard among many others has been repeatedly debunked. General Butler was wealthy long before the Civil War and while he liked money, his professional history shows that he was more often concerned with principles than profit.

[Valeria Palmer]

True History wrote:

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While military provost of New Orleans, Butler was so hated by the citizens that the bottoms of chamber pots (b4 indoor plumbing) were painted with his likeness. One night, while strolling the French Quarter with his adjutants, a working girl emptied her chamberport from a 2nd floor balcony onto Butler resulting in his General Order that any unaccompanied woman was a woman of the street plying her trade and subject to arrest.
Butler was a poor General and even worse human being.

You are certainly welcome to your opinion of General Butler's military acumen and even of his character, but I suspect your opinion is based on flawed information, since you are combining several incidents into a fiction. The chamberpot emptying was on the person of Commodore Farragut. And it was the fact that New Orleans women were spitting at soldiers and officers in the streets that provoked the infamous General Order, not a specific insult to the General himself. Interestingly enough,it has been postulated that by horrifying the women of the city into polite behavior, the order may have prevented possible reactions by Union soldiers.
You would be well served to actually research the incidents you cite before you confabulate unrelated facts into a public display of ignorance. Oh, but it wasn't exactly public, was it? Anonymous posting are the refuge of cowards.

[Big Picture]

Valeria Palmer wrote:

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You are certainly welcome to your opinion of General Butler's military acumen and even of his character, but I suspect your opinion is based on flawed information, since you are combining several incidents into a fiction. The chamberpot emptying was on the person of Commodore Farragut. And it was the fact that New Orleans women were spitting at soldiers and officers in the streets that provoked the infamous General Order, not a specific insult to the General himself. Interestingly enough,it has been postulated that by horrifying the women of the city into polite behavior, the order may have prevented possible reactions by Union soldiers.
You would be well served to actually research the incidents you cite before you confabulate unrelated facts into a public display of ignorance. Oh, but it wasn't exactly public, was it? Anonymous posting are the refuge of cowards.

True or False: Butler once backed Jefferson Davis, later President of the Confederacy, for President of the United States?

[True History]

Valeria Palmer wrote:

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You are certainly welcome to your opinion of General Butler's military acumen and even of his character, but I suspect your opinion is based on flawed information, since you are combining several incidents into a fiction. The chamberpot emptying was on the person of Commodore Farragut. And it was the fact that New Orleans women were spitting at soldiers and officers in the streets that provoked the infamous General Order, not a specific insult to the General himself. Interestingly enough,it has been postulated that by horrifying the women of the city into polite behavior, the order may have prevented possible reactions by Union soldiers.
You would be well served to actually research the incidents you cite before you confabulate unrelated facts into a public display of ignorance. Oh, but it wasn't exactly public, was it? Anonymous posting are the refuge of cowards.

The source that I used was Ken Burns' "Civil War". I just rewatched, and the content of my comments are consistent with the award winning documentary. As such, you should direct your pompous lamentations to PBS.