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 ...

Shepard Mallory (as played by Shane Taylor) and Major General Benjamin Butler (as played by Ames Adamson) in Gloucester Stage's "Ben Butler." (Courtesy Jason Grow) Ken Burns and Noël Coward are the ...

LOWELL — In the impeachment proceedings of his era, Benjamin Butler was a leader, calling for the removal of President Andrew Johnson from office just years after the conclusion of the Civil War. For ...

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 ...

Benjamin Butler, a Union major general in the Civil War, knew how to take a stand — whether it was against a 14-hour work day when he was a young lawyer or, later, when he made a bold move after an ...

The New York Times reported on this day in 1878 that Massachusetts Rep. Benjamin Butler, a Radical Republican who chaired the House Judiciary Committee in the post-Civil War period, would retire from ...

Back around 2015, North Coast Repertory Theatre artistic director David Ellenstein got his hands on the script for Richard Strand’s play “Ben Butler.” Three pages in, Ellenstein was hooked. But it ...

LOWELL — It takes more than one word to sum up Benjamin Butler, a prominent Massachusetts politician and major general in the Civil War. And that one word certainly isn’t “beast,” according to several ...

When you consider the source, the words are doubly shocking: “I have no purpose to interfere with the institution of slavery. I have no lawful right to do so, and I have no inclination to do so.” That ...

For the Washington Stage Guild's final production of its 2022-2023 season, the Undercroft Theater has been dressed up in dark wood, Civil War maps, and American flags. It is the office of a Union Army ...

More than 150 years after Benjamin Butler came and left, New Orleanians still tell stories of the Civil War general, which shows how important — and infamous — he is in the city's history. As the ...