. Civil War officers. Union . A CHANGE OF IMAGE! In 1864 Harpers Weekly showed Butler as a hero. In 1874 itcaricatured him as a demon escaped from a bottle. himself to enlist black troops at New Orleans in 1863, during his second period of command atFort Monroe, he built, with government funds, aschool for black children at Hampton. It enduredfor a quarter century under the name of the ButlerSchool. He also turned over to a dozen or so blackfamilies several confiscated farms for use as a co-operative venture. Even today there is a Butler FarmRoad on the Hampton City maps. In Congress h
. Civil War officers. Union . A CHANGE OF IMAGE! In 1864 Harpers Weekly showed Butler as a hero. In 1874 itcaricatured him as a demon escaped from a bottle. himself to enlist black troops at New Orleans in 1863, during his second period of command atFort Monroe, he built, with government funds, aschool for black children at Hampton. It enduredfor a quarter century under the name of the ButlerSchool. He also turned over to a dozen or so blackfamilies several confiscated farms for use as a co-operative venture. Even today there is a Butler FarmRoad on the Hampton City maps. In Congress hewas largely responsible for the passage of thebitterly opposed Civil Rights Bill of 1875. Butler wasin favor of votes for women at a time when themovement was not even respectable. We can thankBenjamin Butler for saving the priceless Brady col-lection of photographic negatives of the Civil in Congress he inserted in the Sundry Appro-priations Bill an item of $25,000 for their , they would have bee
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