VP Beast Butler?

[Don1946]

(12-03-2014 11:41 AM)Wild Bill Wrote:  Essentially what Banks did was spread Butler's larceny into the countryside and steal the slaves off the plantations and conscript the black males into the Federal Army.

We need to remember that both Butler and Banks were political generals. The stink on the battlefield but unstained the realities of the up coming Reconstruction era.

I rest my case!