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Butler, Benjamin F. (Benjamin Franklin), 1818-1893 to Dorothea Dix

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC08370.01 Author/Creator: Butler, Benjamin F. (Benjamin Franklin), 1818-1893 Place Written: s.l. Type: Autograph letter signed Date: 14 October 1864 Pagination: Order a Copy

"Will Miss Dix give Gen. Butler any good reason why Mrs. Lottie Galt & other harmless old ladies of Williamsburg should not be loyal women & take the oath of allegiance in return for protection for the United States. A Rebel is never harmless."

Civil War and Reconstruction, 1861-1877
Civil War
Military History
Union General
Union Forces
Women's History
Confederate States of America
Oath
The American Civil War

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