Image: LadiesNOLAButlerProclamation

Description: New Orleans under Union occupation during the American Civil War. 1862 editorial cartoon from Harper's Weekly, Ladies of New Orleans before and after General Butler's Proclamation. The first image shows women spitting on a Union soldier, in the second the women pass by while the soldier tips his hat. Comments: This is a reference to a proclamation by Union General Benjamin Butler, at the time in charge of the occupation of New Orleans. Some local women had been showing disrespect to US troops in the city; the proclamation declared that such women could subject to arrest under the same laws as if they were prostitutes making public solicitations. While the cartoon shows the order as having the desired effect of stopping the disrespectful actions, actually Butler's order generated local resentment and international condemnation, and Butler was not long after relived of his command.
Title: LadiesNOLAButlerProclamation
Credit: Harper's Weekly cartoon published 12 July 1862, via [1]
Author: John McLenan
Permission: Note: Intermediate source website claims copyright, but as mechanical reproduction of copyright expired US printed material, it is public domain per US law.
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License: Public domain
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