military reaction to handling enslaved people who fled Confederate lines to seek protection and freedom, Butler was both praised and denigrated for his performance governing occupied New Orleans before his unremarkable role as commander of the Army of the James where he was relieved by Grant in January 1865.
Credited with developing the initial U.S. For most students of the American Civil War, Butler remains caricatured more than understood. Grant's staff, concluded that Butler was "sharp, shrewd, able, without conscience or modesty-overbearing," adding, "A bad man to have against you in a criminal case." Many other people agreed with Comstock and many still do. Coming away from his first encounter with Benjamin F.
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