VP Beast Butler?

[Wild Bill]

Thomas makes a good point. For those who might be interested, a good article that looks at the subordinate commands under Butler and that also copied his light fingered actions towards private property, see Frank L. Byrne, '"A Terrible Machine': General Neal Dow's Military Government on the Gulf Coast," Civil War History 12 (March 1966): 5-22. Dow was a moralist who developed the State of Maine's "Blue Laws" on temperance and lost his morality when he was a department commander in the Pensacola, Florida, region. He repented later and condemned the excesses of military government as a "terrible machine" or a fire raging out of control.