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Title: 1862 Army order for Union soldiers conduct in New Orleans Author: Place: Publisher: Date: Description: Irwin, Richard. Lt. Col., Asst. Adjutant General. By Command of Major General Banks. Printed General Orders No. 114. Headquarters, Department of the Gulf, New Orleans, December 21., 1862. 5 x 8”, tipped to backing sheet. While instructing Union soldiers to “observe a respectful deportment” to all New Orleans residents, made clear that any “indecent” or “offensive personal conduct” toward Union troops, would be “punished with the sharpest severity known to the military law.” Little-known sequel to General Benjamin Butler’s notorious General Order No. 28 of May 1862, days after the capture of New Orleans by Union forces; after New Orleans women had cursed, spit at and emptied pots of urine and feces on Union soldiers, Butler had ordered that “any woman” who” should insult or show contempt” for Union troops should be treated as a "woman of the town plying her avocation" - a common prostitute. Running contrary to the polite social etiquette of the day, this had provoked such outrage in both North and South that President Lincoln had ordered Butler’s replacement by General Nathaniel Banks, who, almost immediately upon arrival in the city issued this curious Order, which tried to temper Butler’s draconian mandate while, at the same time “suppressing” seditious and grossly insulting behavior toward the occupying Yankees. Lot Amendments Condition: very good Item number: 247503