___ offended the ladies of New Orleans. A.Andrew Butler B. Henry Halleck C. Ulysses S. Grant D. Benjamin Butler E. Benjamin Donelson
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D. Benjamin Butler
Benjamin Butler offended the ladies of New Orleans.
- Benjamin Butler, as a Union general during the American Civil War, was in command of New Orleans after the city was captured in 1862. He issued the controversial "General Order No. 28," which stated that any woman in New Orleans who showed contempt for Union soldiers would be treated like a woman "plying her avocation," meaning a prostitute. This order deeply offended the women of New Orleans and the Southern society in general, earning Butler the nickname "Beast Butler" among the Confederates.