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Re: Butler and the 1864 Election

Beast Butler is my least favorite Yankee officer, but in context, New York had gone through the draft riots the year before, bringing troops from Gettysburg into the city. Maybe the Lincoln government really believed there would be riots, or at least unrest, ensuing from the election. Stan

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