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Field name	Value
Collection Reference Number	GLC00666
From Archive Folder	Unassociated Civil War Documents 1862
Title	General orders, no. 44
Date	19 May 1862
Author	Beauregard, Gustave Toutant (1818-1893)
Additional authors	Butler, Benjamin F.
Document Type	Military document
Content Description	General Beauregard's order rallying Confederate soldiers, in response to Benjamin F. Butler's infamous General Order number 28, signed by Smith as Assistant Adjutant General. Butler's order number 28, stating that New Orleans women showing contempt for Union soldiers will be treated as prostitutes is reprinted here, as well as Beauregard's words rallying the men to "drive back from our soil, those infamous invaders of our homes and disturbers of our family ties."
Subjects	Women's History Military History Civil War Confederate General or Leader Confederate States of America Union Forces Union General
People	Beauregard, Gustave Toutant (1818-1893) Butler, Benjamin Franklin (1818-1893)
Place written	Corinth, Mississippi
Theme	The American Civil War; Women in American History
Sub-collection	Papers and Images of the American Civil War
Additional Information	While Grant was driving toward the Mississippi from the north, northern naval forces under Captain David G. Farragut (1801-1870) attacked from the south. In April 1862, Farragut steamed past weak Confederate defenses and captured New Orleans. In New Orleans, Union forces met repeated insults from the city's women. Major General Benjamin F. Butler ordered that any woman who behaved disrespectfully should be treated as a prostitute. Reaction in the North was mixed. Southern reaction to "Beast" Butler was predictably harsh.
Copyright	The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History
Module	Civil War, Reconstruction and the Modern Era: 1860-1945
Transcript	Show/hide Head Quarters Western Department, Corinth, Mississippi, May 19th, 1862. GENERAL ORDERS, } No. 44. } For the information of this army, the following General Orders, No. 23, of the Federal officer, Major General Butler, commanding at New Orleans, will be read on dress parade: NOTICE. HEADQUARTERS DEPARTMENT OF THE GULF, } NEW ORLEANS, May 15, 1862. } General Orders, No. 28. As the officers and soldiers of the United States have been subject to repeated insults from the women (calling themselves ladies) of New Orleans, in return for the most scrupulous non-interference and courtesy on our part, it is ordered that hereafter when any female shall, by word, gesture or movement, insult or show contempt for any officer or soldier of the Untied States, she shall be regarded and held liable to be treated as a woman of the town plying her avocation. By command of MAJOR GENERAL BUTLER GEO. C. STRONG, A. A. G., Chief of Staff. Men of the South! shall our mothers, our wives, our daughters and our sisters, be thus outraged by the ruffianly soldiers of the North, to whom is given the right to treat, at their pleasure, the ladies of the South as common harlots? Arouse friends, and drive back from our soil, those infamous invaders of our homes and disturbers of our family ties. G.T. BEAUREGARD. General Commanding - OFFICIAL - Clifton H. Smith Asst Adjt Genl.

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