" As the officers and soldiers of the United States have been subjected to repeated insults from the women (calling themselves ladies) of New Orleans, in return for the most scrupulous noninterference and courtesy on our part, it is ordered that hereafter when any female shall, by word, gesture, or movement, insult or show contempt for any officer or soldier of the United States, she shall be regarded and held liable to be treated as a woman of the town plying her avocation."--Beast Butler, General Order #28
Oh yes...real men. God bless the memory of the brave patriotic Confederate women of New Orleans
General Butler was a good man. He saw right through the treachery of the Southern females. (BTW, there are actually books about this that cast everything in quite a different light than you Southerners are prone to do).