GENERAL ORDER 55—MAJOR GEN. BUTLER / DEPARTMENT OF THE GULF / BEN BUTLER TAXES THE REBELS.

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Dated “New Orleans, August 4, 1862.” Eight pages, 5” x 8. Exhibits small stain at lower margin. Else near fine. Text:

“It appears that the need of relief to the destitute poor of the city requires more etended measures and greater outlay than have yet been made.

It becomes a question of justice upon whom should this burden fall. Clearly upon those who have brought this calamity on their fellow-citizens….

There are two classes whom it would would seem peculiarly fit should at first contribute to this end. First those individuals and corporations who have aided the rebellion with their mean: and second, those who have endeavored to destroy the commercial property of the city.

The order then cites a subscription of 1.25 million dollars taken up by New Orleans residents and place in the hands of  an illegal body known as the “Committee of Public Safety” for treasonable purpose of defending the city against the government of the United States. The 91 names of subscriber to this fund names are listed in schedule “A.”

Schedule “B” contains the names of cotton brokers who in October 1861 published a manifesto in the New Orleans Crescent newspaper deliberately advising cotton planters against not to bring their produce to the city, in hopes of inducing foreign governments to intervene on behalf of the Confederacy, but which instead brought ruin to the producers and the city.

The persons named in schedule “A” list were assessed a total of 312,000 on behalf of the New Orleans poor, the cotton brokers named in Schedule “B” were assessed a total $29,000.  Those unable to pay their individual tax were liable to have their property sold at public action.

With its list of names in schedules “A” & “B,” General Butler’s General Order No. 55 makes a fascinating collectible for New Orleans Civil War aficionados. In protective sleeve. [jp][ph:L]

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