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 ...

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 ...

One of the seminal moments in the movement to end slavery occurred in the early stages of the Civil War, two years before the Emancipation Proclamation. The First Confiscation Act of 1861, signed 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 ...

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 ...

NEWBURYPORT — A look at the legacy of Gen. Benjamin Franklin Butler, a former congressman and Massachusetts governor, will be presented this spring at the Museum of Old Newbury. Historian Elizabeth ...