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518 - Benjamin Beast Butler

The Dollop with Dave Anthony and Gareth Reynolds

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Confederate Courts - What Happened to the Mansion of a General?

A lot of hardcourt confederates now have to swear an oath to keep their property. 69 thousand people in louisiana took the interesting oath. In leforce parish, over one million in property was confiscated and auctioned off. A woman named rowena florence said the general gave her box of family silver, but benjamin did not buy it,. And he took the silver for his own useo k; that seizure earned him the nickname spoons ler.

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