[PAR35]

Your historical research skills could use a little polishing if you weren’t able to turn up anything about “General Order 28”

Any woman deemed to not treat any Union soldier with the respect he wanted could be treated as a prostitute plying her trade. General P.G.T. Beauregard properly understood the order as permitting union soldiers to “the right to treat at their pleasure the ladies of the South as common harlots.”

See the order and the Confederate response here:

https://www.gilderlehrman.org/sites/default/files/inline-pdfs/T-00666.pdf

[jackibutterfly]

"Your historical research skills could use a little polishing..."

To be honest, I don't have any research skills. I just put his name in, and clicked on a few links. Anyway, thanks so much for the answer - I don't think I would have ever come up with General Order 28.

[sphinx]

Butler’s famous order about the “ladies” of New Orleans was not “permission to rape.” It was a calculated insult to the women of New Orleans who had taken to very bad behavior. (E.g., pouring their chamber pots from New Orleans’ famous balconies onto the heads of passing Union soldiers. Not to mention chronic verbal insults.) Butler was saying that women who behaved like whores could be treated like whores, which is fair. But that doesn’t mean approval of rape. Whores, after all, are not raped; they sell their services. Butler simply used rather pungent language to indicate that Union soldiers no longer needed to treat such ladies with the elaborate respect that was the norm for an occupying army on its best behavior.