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[CIVIL WAR, NEW ORLEANS OCCUPATION BROADSIDE]. BUTLER, BENJAMIN F., Major-General. Proclamation...City of New Orleans...having been surrendered to the combined naval and land forces of the United States, and having been evacuated by the rebel forces...the rules and regulations by which the laws of the United States will be for the present and during a state of war, enforced and maintained...Headquarters, Department of the Gulf, New Orleans, 1 May 1862. A narrow folio sheet, 637 x 226 mm. (25 1/16 x 8 7/8 in.), slight browning of the inexpensive paper, a few slight fold tears, but in very good condition and with large margins.
Admirial Farragut, having won a great naval victory in successfully riunning the Confederate forts at the mouth of the Mississippi, had captured the almost undefended city of New Orleans on 25 April 1862; the civil authorities surrendered the city to the Union forces on 29 April. Major General Benjamin F. Butler ("Beast Butler") and his army occupied New Orleans on 1 May -- the date of this proclamation -- and launched "his efficient and controversial military administration of the city" (Boatner, The Civil War Dictionary, p. 592). This broadside announces that Union military forces control New Orleans and sets forth in great detail the strict regulations by which it will be governed.
Admirial Farragut, having won a great naval victory in successfully riunning the Confederate forts at the mouth of the Mississippi, had captured the almost undefended city of New Orleans on 25 April 1862; the civil authorities surrendered the city to the Union forces on 29 April. Major General Benjamin F. Butler ("Beast Butler") and his army occupied New Orleans on 1 May -- the date of this proclamation -- and launched "his efficient and controversial military administration of the city" (Boatner, The Civil War Dictionary, p. 592). This broadside announces that Union military forces control New Orleans and sets forth in great detail the strict regulations by which it will be governed.