Scope and Content From the Collection: The Benjamin Franklin Butler Notebook consists of a handwritten, bound manuscript providing a book-length, vehement critique of the military leadership and personal character of General Ulysses S. Grant. Though attributed to Benjamin Franklin Butler, a closer inspection in 2009 suggested a different author, possibly former Union Brigadier General Gustave Paul Cluseret. The author repeatedly charges Grant with gross incompetence, recklessness, bloodthirstiness, self-promotion,...

Scope and Content From the Collection: The Benjamin Franklin Butler Notebook consists of a handwritten, bound manuscript providing a book-length, vehement critique of the military leadership and personal character of General Ulysses S. Grant. Though attributed to Benjamin Franklin Butler, a closer inspection in 2009 suggested a different author, possibly former Union Brigadier General Gustave Paul Cluseret. The author repeatedly charges Grant with gross incompetence, recklessness, bloodthirstiness, self-promotion,...

Scope and Content From the Collection: The Benjamin Franklin Butler Notebook consists of a handwritten, bound manuscript providing a book-length, vehement critique of the military leadership and personal character of General Ulysses S. Grant. Though attributed to Benjamin Franklin Butler, a closer inspection in 2009 suggested a different author, possibly former Union Brigadier General Gustave Paul Cluseret. The author repeatedly charges Grant with gross incompetence, recklessness, bloodthirstiness, self-promotion,...