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Major General Benjamin F. Butler, known in New Orleans as the reviled “Beast” Butler, was a favorite subjectfor political cartoonists. Thoughtful portraits of the general, such as this 1885 wood engraving based on a wartime photograph from 1864, are rare. (THNOC, 1974.25.27.54)
collections, including the Murphy Family Papers (MSS 270), the Walton-Glenny Family Papers (MSS 135), the St. Annas Asylum Papers (MSS 641), and the newly acquired Henry Ross Papers (2012.0384). These materials are complemented by loans from the Library of Congress in Washington, DC, and New Orleans’s own Civil War Museum. Those seeking a nuts-and-bolts account of military operations across the Gulf South will also want to sample an interactive timeline on the gallery’s resource computer.
Among the individuals represented in Occupy New Orleansl—through correspondence, proclamation, portraiture, and caricature—are such well-known historical figures as President Abraham Lincoln, General Butler, New Orleans
Mayor John T. Monroe, who oversaw a relatively safe incursion of Union troops into the city, and William B. Mumford, who was hanged in June 1862 for tearing an American flag from its perch above the US Mint in defiance of the Union occupation. Their stories intersect with those of lesser-known characters such as Henry Ross, Isabel Walton Waldo, Isachar Zacharie, and James Cross Murphy.
Captain Henry Ross of the 4th Wisconsin Volunteer Cavalry was among the occupying forces to enter the city with General Butler on May 1,
1862.	Four days later, he was on hand as his regiment’s brass band—“the only one then in the city”—mounted the balcony of the St. Charles Hotel to play
Occupy New Orleans!
Voices from the Civil War
On view October 1, 2013, through March 9, 2014
In the Williams Gallery,
533 Royal St.
Tuesday-Saturday,
9:30 a.m.—4:30 p.m.
Sunday, 10:30 a.m.—4:30 p.m.
Free and open to the public
Ihe Historic New Orleans Collection Quarterly 3