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SUMMARY:Civil War History Talk
UID:27544
DTSTAMP:20260418T140400Z
DTSTART:20260527T000000Z
DTEND:20260527T013000Z
LOCATION:4747 West Napoleon Ave, Metairie, LA 70001, United States
ROOM: Jefferson & Napoleon Rooms
DESCRIPTION:Lt. Col. James "Mike" Larkin, USAF (ret.) will discu
 ss “General Butler and Metairie” at 7 p.m., Tuesday, May 26, at the Ea
 st Bank Regional Library, 4747 W. Napoleon, Metairie. This event is free 
 of charge and open to the public. Major General Benjamin Butler was an ex
 tremely controversial figure during the U.S. Civil War. He commanded the f
 orce that captured New Orleans in May 1862. His administration had some su
 ccesses, but some of his acts were highly unpopular, including Order No. 2
 8 of May 15, 1862, that if any woman should insult or show contempt for an
 y officer or soldier of the United States, she may be treated similarly to
  a “woman of the town plying her avocation,” in other words, a prostit
 ute.He censored newspapers, seized cotton, offended the city’s Jewish po
 pulation, and had a man executed for tearing down a flag atop the U.S. Min
 t. He achieved success when he imposed a rigid program of garbage disposal
  that dramatically cut the number of yellow fever cases to two in 1862, wh
 en the death rate could reach 10 percent of the city’s population each y
 ear.After the war, Butler served five terms in the U.S. House of Represent
 atives from Massachusetts and ran several campaigns for Massachusetts gove
 rnor which he eventually won in 1882. He also had a leadership role in the
  impeachment of U.S. President Andrew Johnson. James Larkin grew up in Me
 tairie and has been interested in what took place in the New Orleans area 
 during the Civil War, the most tumultuous period in the region’s history
 . Since 2010, after retiring, he has been poring through regimental histor
 ies, the Compendium of the War, soldier diaries and military maps at the 
 National Archives to get a picture of the people and events that occurred 
 in the New Orleans region during the conflict.For more information regardi
 ng this presentation, contact Chris Smith, Manager of Adult Programming fo
 r the library, at 504-889-8143 or wcsmith@jefferson.lib.la.us. 
URL:https://calendar.jplibrary.net/event/civil-war-history-talk-27544
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