BENJAMIN F. BUTLER ALS

BENJAMIN F. BUTLER ALS

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Dated “Boston, Jany. 29, 1861.” One page in ink on lined paper, 7.75” x 9.25. Exhibits fold-marks, else VG plus and entirely legible.

Ben Butler was one of the more colorful and controversial political and military figures of the Civil War and Reconstruction era history. At the time of the writing of this note, he was a recently defeated Massachusetts gubernatorial candidate, a pro-slavery Democrat who had voted for Jefferson Davis in the 1860 Charleston Democratic convention through 57 ballots. With the coming of war, Butler would change his political spots repeatedly, from pro-slavery to anti-slavery, from Democrat to Republican, from Lincoln Republican to Radical Republican, and later one, after the war from Republican back to Democrat, and from Democrat to Greenback Party presidential candidate.

He was also a busy lawyer, as in this “arrest” case referral  dating to January 1861.

Text:   “Hon. Charles Levi Woodbury District Attorney is hereby authorized to sign my name in all needful matters in adjusting bills arising out of the cases against Silas D. Carleton and others for the arrest of Frank B. Sanborn / Boston Jany 29 1861 Benf. F. Butler.”---In protective sleeve.   [jp][ph:L]

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