- GLC#
- GLC08370.01
- Type
- Letters
- Date
- October 14, 1864
- Author/Creator
- Butler, Benjamin F. (Benjamin Franklin), 1818-1893
- Title
- to Dorothea Dix
- Place Written
- s.l.
- Pagination
- Primary time period
- Civil War and Reconstruction, 1861-1877
- Sub-Era
- The American Civil War
"Will Miss Dix give Gen. Butler any good reason why Mrs. Lottie Galt & other harmless old ladies of Williamsburg should not be loyal women & take the oath of allegiance in return for protection for the United States. A Rebel is never harmless."
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