Butler Medal

[Bear]

Hello,

I've never heard of this one.

The Butler Medal(An official decoration of the United States Armed Forces)

Created by Major General Benjamin Butler

Issued on 11th october 1864

Around 200 awarded

The medal was awarded to African American Union soldiers for their heroic acts while serving in the Army of the James.

For more info - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Butler_Medal

thanks,

barry

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[Bear]

For more info - http://www.civilwar.si.edu/soldiering_butler_medal.html

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[Guest Rick Research]

Up here "Beast" Butler is better known as the Commandant of occupied New Orleans (issued an order that women displaying the Confederate colors as bodices and aggressively "dis-respecting" Federal troops were to be treated as "common women of the street" which took care of THAT and earned him his sobriquet ) and one of a long and apparently never ending supply of nonentities occupying the job of Governor of Massachusetts.