Benjamin Franklin Butler: A Noisy, Fearless Life (Elizabeth D. Leonard - CH) Section - Abe Biography and its environs

and its environs

Also featured are those women who may not have posed as male soldiers but who nonetheless pushed gender boundaries to act boldly in related military capacities

as well as the Scots-Irish and their contributions to the community

by Alison Handy

He resurrects the variety of African-American voices and memories of the war and the efforts to preserve the emancipationist legacy in the midst of a culture built on its denial

Benjamin Franklin Butler: A Noisy, Fearless Life (Elizabeth D. Leonard - CH) Section - Abe Biography and its environsby Elizabeth D. Leonard Benjamin Franklin Butler was one of the most important and controversial military and political leaders of the Civil War and Reconstruction eras. Remembered most often for his uncompromising administration of the Federal occupation of New Orleans during the war, Butler reemerges in this lively narrative as a man whose journey took him from childhood destitution to wealth and profound influence in state and national halls of