General Order No. 28 (New Orleans "Woman Order")

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General Order No. 28 (the New Orleans "Woman Order") was a highly controversial Civil War directive by Union General Benjamin F. Butler that threatened to treat women in Confederate-occupied New Orleans who insulted Union troops as prostitutes under military law.


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Benjamin F. Butler
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