HST 202 Lecture Notes - Lecture 26: Anaconda Plan, Total War, Robert Gould Shaw
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Lincoln named him in charge of new orleans. Women were rude to butler and he said they would be treated poorly if they continued. Butler was called spoons and beast butler. He freed the slaves in new orleans after white men were complaining that the slaves were running to the yankees. Was said that butler stole spoons so they nicknamed him spoons. Butlers called fugitive slaves contrabands of war. You keep them and use them for your advantage. Just as valuable as cannons, bulls, mules, property. The congress said that the contrabands could be free. Mass of people began fleeing to contraband camps, terrible conditions because so many came. Forced gov to focus on emancipation, because military imperative and morally good. Wanted to split the american south in two by taking over the mississippi river. The people of the north thought it was way to slow. Would take a lot of lives to get the rivier.
