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 ...

LOWELL — A crowd at the Hildreth Family Cemetery on Saturday watched as Civil War Gen. Benjamin Franklin Butler came to life through Richard Scott. Dressed in a dark blue uniform that consisted of a ...

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A Thought-Provoking Life of "Beast Butler" In this new work award winning biographer, Elizabeth Leonard turns her attention to the Union’s Benjamin Butler, reassessing his services to the nation as a ...

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 ...

Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. The plot follows Major General Benjamin Butler of the Union Army as he faces an ...

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 ...

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 ...