That Time the Ladies of New Orleans Peed on Union Soldiers

[@big_guy_of_leiden5688]

Maybe I should’ve went there instead..

[@charliechaplin5240]

Today is the anniversary of Neo Orleans being captured

[@Onewayfilms24]

😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@OttoMattak]

Lmao!

[@johnwilks112]

General William Sherman we'll March with you brother

[@mossyourlocalbleachbottle2098]

You horny bastard

[@fernsong8558]

Soldiers nowadays: Jokes on you, I'm into that shit.

[@mobbossegizii7009]

Eww wtf

[@glitchsister]

Pissin in your homies mouth as a good night, is just a war time past time

[@Smile4theKillCam456]

[@snek9983]

@@mobbossegizii7009 first time on the internet?

[@ajmari9585]

"Please sit on my face while I militarily occupy your plantation" -union soldier with millenial sentiments circa 1863

[@Hickokboy]

They would laugh at the soldiers funerals? Damn expect nothing less from people who get their privilege from slavery.

[@metroguy4879]

Memória Protestante agree

[@torinjones3221]

Well the Romans didn't laugh at soldiers funerals. Quite the opposite actually. In fact they nearly set Rome on fire during Caesers funeral they were that upset.

[@Wolfof1918]

@@torinjones3221 I think you're ready to run a marathon after that stretch lmao

[@chenyuwei51]

Wolf of 1918 Ok there buddy, now that is a good roast

[@jimmy5391]

Wolf of 1918 woo good un

[@anderskorsback4104]

Privilege in action. They act like they can do whatever they want on account of their station, and when pushback comes, it's an outrage and time for the fainting couch and smelling salts. Especially when the "pushback" simply consists of a threat to treat them like a lower, non-privileged class of women.

[@SafetySpooon]

Of course, given the time period, that's the only power they had.

[@James-jy3lh]

dude they literally threw waste at union soldiers

[@BelleroseQC]

The legalization of sexual assault for disrespecting one’s occupiers is an outrage, actually.

[@Ligierthegreensun]

@@BelleroseQC considering the “occupiers” treated them with the lightest touch and that they were the cream of a racist and slave owning elite, I’m having a lot of trouble feeling sorry for them.

[@Ligierthegreensun]

@@BelleroseQC cry some more.

[@kapmando]

Behold: A History of Karens

[@xc7pyro513]

God right?

[@BelleroseQC]

Butler more or less legalized sexual assault towards the women of New Orléans.

[@alnu8355]

Karen The Begining...

[@jamesstraw9732]

@@BelleroseQC I have no pity.

[@BelleroseQC]

@@jamesstraw9732 No, I wouldn’t expect someone like you would.

[@FlyinBlaney]

Women of New Orleans: dumps pee on Union men, insults Union men to their faces, literally laughs at Union dead My boi Ben Butler: issues an order making it known that they are on the same level as common prostitutes Women of New Orleans, people all across the world: OMGDIDYOUHEARWHATBENJAMINBUTLERSAIDHESSUCHASILLYDINGUSLIKECANYOUBELIEVETHAT

[@kenabbott8585]

To be treated as a prostitute who was currently on the job ("plying her avocation") was clearly a right to rape. Even today, prosecuting the rape of a prostitute is extremely difficult, but in the 19th century they didn't even try. Butler claimed repeatedly that he was not giving his men a license to rape, but he was well aware that this was the threat that women were now living under, the threat he was using to force their compliance. In one exchange, he claimed "So far, all the aggression has been against us.... if aggression must be, let it not all be against us." Butler was flatly lying about this, of course, but it's telling that to him, if women refuse to show his troops the respect he feels they're due and in turn his soldiers rape one or two of them, then things are even-up between the two. More than that, everyone else understood the meaning of his order as well. Union major Jordan ordered women to cook for him in Sparta, Tennessee, and stated that if they did not serve his soldiers, he would "turn his men loose upon them and he would not be responsible for anything they might do." Later, in Selina he said of women who refused to serve his troops "They had better sew up the bottoms of their petticoats." I found no record of him being punished by the Union Army. International condemnation was just as swift--and they too knew exactly what his intention so clearly was. The British Prime Minister and House of Lords both denounced it. And Butler's own soldiers understood the meaning of the order as well. Mrs. Hyams, the wife of Leutenant Governor Henry Hyams, was stopped by a Union officer who demanded that she bow to him. When she refused, "the vile wretch threw his arms around her and kissed her." This story has a happy ending--Mrs. Hyams, like many women who saw what they were threatened with, began carrying a pistol. Grabbing and kissing a woman against her will was the last thing this man ever did.

[@MadsBoldingMusic]

The highest authority in a state established solely for the perpetuation of slavery calling someone an enemy of humanity... That's rich.

[@MeadeFatLoss]

It wasn't over slavery.

[@lightmetro7508]

Lost causer spotted, everyone point and laugh​@@MeadeFatLoss

[@MeadeFatLoss]

@@lightmetro7508 the cause was never lost

[@lightmetro7508]

@@MeadeFatLoss shame the same can't be said for your braincells

[@zkjspero]

@@MeadeFatLoss

[@amcalabrese1]

Butler had two great moments in his military career. The first was seizing control of Baltimore from a pro confederate mob. The second was his “contraband” order at Fort Monroe which was a way of protecting escaped slaves.

[@700.arturo]

2 w's is enough no?

[@amcalabrese1]

@@700.arturo Considering that otherwise his military career was one disaster after another, no.

[@700.arturo]

@@amcalabrese1 oh ok so they weren't small disasters

[@amcalabrese1]

@@700.arturo The worst is when he managed to get his entire army bottled up a smaller Confederate force during the Bermuda Hundred campaign.

[@jessewhitstine4484]

You'll get pissed on walking down the streets of New Orleans now lol. Nothing has changed

[@brandonellis8111]

Bourbon street in particular 😂

[@jammehrmann1871]

@@brandonellis8111 thats why I shpuld invade the world and pacify it myself

[@obiwaankenobi4460]

@@jammehrmann1871 what are you on about

[@ThePizzaGoblin]

I was laughing until you said they went to funerals for union dead and laughed. Thats so fucked up.

[@12gaFreedom]

Not at all fucked up. Consider the proximity of New Orleans to the Mason-Dixie line. It is as far into enemy territory as you can get. These people were violent occupiers in the town of women and children who had likely just had their husbands and fathers murdered by these people. The fact that ALL they did was laugh at funderals and piss on them is shocking to me to say the least. I would have spent every waking moment gutting these pigs until they left my town personally.

[@nicolemartelli9033]

​@@12gaFreedom ironic name bc it sounds like you hate freedom. i guess bernie sanders isn't communist enough for a slavery lover like you, probably just don't believe in anyone ever getting paid unless it's the masters? BTW biological warfare is a WARCRIME and these violent THUGS should've been shot. WHY DO YOU HATE AMERICA AND WHY DO YOU DISRESPECT OUR TROOPS? LOVE IT OR LEAVE IT

[@xijinping10923]

​@@nicolemartelli9033 I lost braincells reading your comment

[@theaverageitaliandon998]

Nicole Martelli how is peeing on someone biological warfare and what does Sanders have to do with anything , I am genuinely puzzled at how obtuse you seem to be in this reply ma’am.

[@jaybirdy85]

@@nicolemartelli9033 everyone living and fighting from the area were Americans. And the people he is referring to did leave it. Also, to say he can’t be critical of the behaviors of officers or soliders goes against everything it means to be American. The first amendment. You don’t have to Love everything your country does to be American. Duh

[@lonepilgrim83]

Great video. Seen your face on any Southern chamber pots yet?

[@AtunSheiFilms]

Ha! Only a matter of time.

[@lonepilgrim83]

And speaking of Massachusetts, will we eventually be seeing any more King Philip's War videos?

[@AtunSheiFilms]

Eventually, yeah. I'll try to make it happen the next time I'm up there.

[@lonepilgrim83]

That would be great. I was going through Sudbury the other day and started nerding out about it thanks to your video!

[@AtunSheiFilms]

Nice!

[@RockinL7BuckingBulls]

What I love about New Orleans is one can dress up in costume and walk around all time and know one cares.

[@HSMiyamoto]

Butler was a lawyer. Which helps explain why he equated "ladies of New Orleans" with "woman of the town." Clever man, Ben Butler.

[@rex103friend6]

I always love hearing this story and the version you uploaded is the best ive seen. Stop putting other youtubers to shame with good videos! lol

[@AtunSheiFilms]

Haha, never!

[@davididiart5934]

Butler gets declared an enemy of mankind. Napoleon: How does it feel? Feels good, doesn't it?

[@occam7382]

Butler: It does, it really does.

[@thevenator3955]

“Well, they’ve done it… All Europe has declared war against me, not against France, but against me.”

[@BradanKlauer-xh3hm]

“They dignify you sire by making you a nation.”

[@johnr7279]

I've been in the US Army for over 30 years and I say good for Butler for understanding what his Soldiers were going through and understanding the very real need to take control. Funny about the chamber pots though. If a person's way of dealing with the occupation is to put a hated image on the bottom of the ol' chamber pot, then so be it! ;-)

[@roadhouse6999]

100% agree. That's an officer who cares about his men.

[@Spooky1862]

I wouldn’t go that far. In 1864, when Butler was the administrator of the Norfolk, Va. district, he and his brother engaged in a lucrative trade with the Confederates. Cotton belonging to the Confederate government was traded through the lines in exchange for food, cash, and other supplies. The Butler cabal and the Yankee merchants involved profited considerably from this, and the food/supplies went directly to Lee’s Army of Northern Virginia at Petersburg. So, while Grant was trying to cut Lee’s supply lines, the Butler-managed trade in Norfolk was almost single-handedly feeding the Confederates. It certainly lengthened the war-and the casualty lists.

[@johno1396]

The union army did not invade New Orleans, it liberated it!

[@Kobolds_in_a_trenchcoat]

@boomgoesblitzhound that include the slaves?

[@punkwrestle]

boomgoesblitzhound The Union were liberators, making sure the people were freed from their oppressive rebel traitors. If they supported the confederacy then they would be traitors and executed as such.

[@holydoggo4822]

why not both

[@lxi9648]

New Orleans fought against the Union tho

[@obiwaankenobi4460]

Invaded/occupied works. Liberated is a retarded, idealist and biased term.

[@JB-hl1qx]

LMAOOOOO that ending was good ! Yessss back in NOLA! Cant wait to see your treme video when you make it ! ( skull and bones are great guys love them ) keep the great videos coming.

[@markreeter6227]

"Piss off Yankees" was the message the ladies of NO were trying to send. They were just a bit indelicate about it.

[@12SPASTIC12]

Sounds more like "piss on Yankees" to me.

[@NeilSonOfNorbert]

Doesn't sound very ladylike to me.

[@Zach.1809]

@@NeilSonOfNorbert it isn’t gentleman to do that ether

[@Matt_The_Hugenot]

The smart thing to do would have been to charge them with damaging federal property..

[@occam7382]

Perhaps, but this is just so much more hilarious.

[@lavrentivs9891]

As curio it should be added that similair novelty chamber pots were very popular during both World Wars, with portraits of the leaders of the enemy side. I've seen a few british examples with the image of a (caricature) furious Hitler on the bottom (of the chamber pot).

[@occam7382]

Did they ever have caricatures of their own leaders?

[@lavrentivs9891]

@@occam7382 Not that I recall, I would presume that in such a war as WW2, it would be deemed very unpatriotic indeed if you sold images of your own leader that you would do your natural business on. I would not be surprised if there were exceptions to the rule, but perhaps more common during peace time, when it's easier to criticise the government, previous governments or individual politicians. I have not seen any such examples though. I have on the other hand seen "regular" novelty chamber pots, with an eye in the bottom and the text "If you keep me nice and clean, I won't tell what I have seen".

[@occam7382]

@@lavrentivs9891, huh. It would've been funny if they did do that, wouldn't it?

[@christroiano121]

Great as always

[@AtunSheiFilms]

Thank you my friend.

[@Peristerygr]

Well, belonging to the "fair sex" doesn't automatically make you innocent or a good person. But I suppose there were cases for women wrongly accused, for various reasons.

[@whtbobwntsbobget]

Fairer*

[@arthurs2589]

I have to pay extra for that, i dont know what they are complaining about. Spoiled brats. Lol

[@arthurs2589]

Ay, before someone screenshots this shit, i was joking.

[@tonycavanagh1929]

@@arthurs2589 lol best comment yet.

[@firepuppies4086]

I was waiting for this comment

[@fasiapulekaufusi6632]

The Question is where is the line drawn? Do these soldiers have to endure much more disrespect for someone to say enough is enough? I mean, i feel that if Butler didn't created the general order, the Ladies would probably feel more comfortable doing worse. Who knows.

[@w41duvernay]

I think the general was right. The organized laughing parties at Union Funerals was enough. The N. O. laudies brought that consequence on themselves.

[@fasiapulekaufusi6632]

@@w41duvernay yeah i agree. We understand war is cruel but to laugh at a funeral? Thats very low. How can one call themselves Christian and do that?

[@neurofiedyamato8763]

The laughing at funerals IMO is worse than throwing pee, although I would say drenching people in pee is already sufficient to warrant the general order. I can understand the hate but that is no excuse for such immoral actions, but I guess these rich white ladies weren't exactly moral to begin with given most were slave owners.

[@Chief2Moon]

All new information to me. Thanks for posting your series!

[@vikke2013]

4:56 Nathaniel PEE Banks *ok, I'll show myself out

[@chuckscumm3466]

Always brings a smile to my face when I see a face I recognize in my KZbin recommendations.

[@LoganDX1990]

Man I am from Baltimore and I have been to New Orleans twice, last year for Halloween, and I have great and deep love for the city and your vids have more than strengthened it. Hope to ne day call myself a transplant in the near future.

[@vaughngordon1095]

The Juan Anatou joke. Classic. I remember that from music college in 1984

[@johnnyreb7090]

I think it’s funny how unions would just say it’s okay ma’am after getting pissed dumped on there head and great content man

[@staceyherald7953]

Great video. I liked the ending. I was surprised you didn't mention the hanging of Mumford in the story. But good job.

[@lalouisianecreole4883]

Yes another New Orleans vid!!!!, ⚜⚜⚜⚜⚜

[@scottharrison6836]

Great video, such a great story from NO's history. I would love to hear you tell the story of Butler and William Bruce Mumford. I've driven by that monument all my life and so few people, even in the city, know the story.

[@timothyterrell1658]

There was a lot of kinkey stuff going on in New Orleans back then, and still is. Peeing on soldiers sounds like the norm for New Orleans.

[@sesfilmsllc]

Now I just want to see a short film with a scene of Union soldiers marching down New Orleans and an unseen woman yells “Garly Vouz” and dumps piss on them.

[@SaxandRelax]

You know, I’m something of a union soldier myself, ladies.

[@limetwistanimations8628]

...ew.

[@chidoman1595]

Union Boy: Jokes on you! I'm into that shit!

[@markspaniola8596]

The best kept secret of the civil war was how Butler got the northern and southern banks to cosign for each others war loans. Butler came up with a system where the loans would get paid off no matter what side won. It wasn't Governor Andrews that made butler a brigadier general. It was the bankers that wanted general Butler in charge (of collection.

[@Beemer917]

There were ladies in New Orleans back then? Ok.

[@unclelumbago_1899]

I can only imagine the looks atun shei gets wearing a civil war uniform and walking around filming

[@cleothehermetichermeticist8391]

Honestly? In New Orleans? Probably not even the weirdest thing they’ve seen that week.

[@jammerx2074]

Where do i sign up for the Union?

[@williamanderson5437]

A very well explained documentary, thank you.

[@illglenco]

OH JESUS CHRIST I LOVE THIS CHANNEL

[@tomashize]

Facinating. Would love to read a novel set in occupied New Orleans.

[@EzekielDeLaCroix]

The Union Soldiers dealt with this with remarkable restraint. Union Soldiers: "Oh no I'm so weak and helpless . Please don't spit on me, insult me and dump piss on me."

[@Gravelgratious]

It is amazing how the Army of the Gulf kept getting all the oddball political commanders. Couldnt laugh harder when you brought up Nathaniel Banks, hope you talk about the Red River Campaign and what a clusterfuck it was.

[@blackspring3207]

can you sum up the Red River campaign?

[@LAPKMMEX]

Holy shit "Juan Anatou" is fucking hilarious I shall adopt this as my musician stage name from now on

[@grmpEqweer]

When you're in New Orleans, urine luck!

[@felixdelabarara494]

That awkward moment when 10% of the dudes are absolutely loving it.

[@berkleypearl2363]

Honestly I want one of those chamber pots. That’s hilarious and stupid and it would be a great thing to have as a prop for the theater. We do lots of period dramas and I would love to have something like this as like a little joke for the cast

[@c.w.johnsonjr6374]

Butler went on to be bottled up by Louisianan General Pierre G.T. Beauregard on the Bermuda Hundred Peninsula later in the war, so he had a thing for getting himself stuck in odd places. I'm disspointed that you didn't use one of his pickup lines. General Butler: Hey, girl, they call me 'Spoons Butler.' Spoons.

[@johnthegreat97]

If Uncle Billy was at New Orleans: "I'd save that urine for the fires if i were you." *Union Dixie plays in the background*

[@RockinL7BuckingBulls]

I got one of those chamber pots from the same place. Great museum ,please do a show on that!!

[@dil.aug.8489]

There really should be an event held every year in the French Quarter with Union reenactors and women roleplaying as the disruptors. Minus the pee part of course.

[@adamcohen2632]

Pretty much only the rich white women of New Orleans, opposed Butler. Almost all of the Irish, German immigrant women and the black and creole women (combined, the overwhelming majority of the population of New Orleans at the time) loved Butler. The Confederacy had abandoned New Orleans and for much of the previous year had done very little to feed and supply civilians in its most important and largest City. Butler wasn't much of a military man, but he was a very capable and competent administrator and politician. He got the abandoned civilians fed, got pensions and relief for war widows, got the city back to work and greatly improved dire war time living conditions for most of the city.

[@Independentfellow]

Jokes on those traitor ladies, that was those union soldiers’ kink.

[@pitbullruss5636]

I got peed on a few times by women ..... like always very good and informative.

[@zachbocchino5501]

Dude...that's just downright disgusting.

[@pitbullruss5636]

Jokinen 17 yep ...almost got shit on too if I didn’t move .

[@zachbocchino5501]

@@pitbullruss5636 well it seems like you would have been in a shitty situation then....I will jump of a bridge now 😂

[@pitbullruss5636]

Jokinen 17 lol

[@gordonfreeman8109]

Coomer moment

[@Wintermute01001]

Well, my recommendations are about to get fucked up

[@John_Snowbird]

Not gonna lie, it's pretty funny picturing this all going down. To be a fly on the wall when that proclamation was issued.

[@Nickname10344]

That bit about Buttler’s face on the chamber pot had me in stitches😂

[@ig-8887]

Do a video on the woman who threw a rock at Jefferson Davis.

[@EzraFieldsofStrawberry]

Some good old-fashioned Southern sweet iced tea.

[@thehaloscrolls391]

Benjamin “Based” Butler

[@keithorbell8946]

Compare with what British soldiers on patrol would get pelted with on patrol in Republican areas of Northern Ireland during the Troubles (1967-1997).

[@meeeka]

Wasn't he called 'Beast' Butler? I remember my great-grandma telling this story to us.

[@ajmari9585]

That's crazy. Did your great grandmother have like personal opinions of ben butler from living through the war? And what did she say?

[@kenabbott8585]

That was how he earned the name, yeah. Some also called him "Spoons" Butler for stealing a bunch of silverware.

[@Kez_DXX]

For the longest time I can remember my dad having an ashtray with the text "Kiss our butts Saddam" with a depiction of Saddam at the bottom of the ashtray. I seem to recall in Guns of the South, when the Union representatives were being announced, it went something like "the honorable gentlemen [names], and Benjamin Butler."

[@privatehudson516]

If these girls knew that their behavior led to General Sherman and other Union commanders hardening their hearts against Southern civilians, which indirectly led to more destruction and mayhem that Union troops inflicted in the South, they probably would've reconsidered their actions.

[@seancallaghan54]

Butler should have just issued a response saying how flattered he was that all the women of New Orleans wanted to show him what was up their dresses so eagerly

[@musiclistsareus1029]

That southern hospitality

[@theBCEproductions]

Can't wait to hear Juan Anatou's score

[@oeilletetetoile1356]

I enjoy your videos, but you entirely glossed over the threat of rape in Butler's order. Women were threatened with rape if they "disrespected" the soldiers. That is deserving of more discussion.

[@ktheterkuceder6825]

If it was me I would have replaced rape with a good whipping.

[@Ray_Midge]

There was also a yellow fever outbreak in New Orleans at the time. Not surprisig given ladies cavalier attitiude toward excrement. Butler imposed santiation and quarantine meausres that ended the outbreak. Butler is not the most heroic guy, but he is definitely a character, one of the most interesting in the war and in Reconstruction.

[@spadeplaladin5]

The idea of some daughter of a plantation owner who had their every need catered to by human chattel being thrown on a ship and locked in a cell far from home, forced to feel like the people her family owned for generations makes me really happy.

[@lemuzyka]

As both a newcomer to this fascinating channel and someone partial to 'Iron Brigades', I'm curious about your 'Stonewall Brigade'. What's the lowdown? Who are these people? How does one attain the privilege?

[@MeepChangeling]

Uh... Point of order: If you think you've been disrespected, you've been disrespected. Disrespect is subjective, not objective. Someone doesn't have to intend to be disrepsectfull. For example, you walk into a Mosq. Everyone is pissed at you for disrespecting their church and religion. Why? Because no one told you to take off your shoes before entering.

[@bigu6591]

Based "order 28" Butler

[@goldsea1678]

“Finally some good fucking food”

[@paratrooper6]

Great question from the student too!

[@jameshoward3rd]

I'm starting to think Juan Anatou isn't a real composer.🤔🤔

[@Marcus_Pilot]

How did they print the pictures in the pot?

[@dedicatedtransportation4130]

Jesus Christ why'd he say Gloucester like that? I've lived in Massachusetts all my life. I've heard "Glou-chester" "Glou-sester". But never has the correct pronunciation been so shit pantingly terrifying for me.

[@charliechaplin5240]

Today is the anniversary of New Orleans being captured by the Union 1862

[@michaelnewell6385]

That’s the New Orleans spirit ladies.

[@AjarTadpole7202]

In times of resistance, use anything and everything at your disposal, nothing is useless

[@HarbingerOfBattle]

Personally I would have reworded the last part G.O. #28 to “she will be regarded and held liable to be placed under arrest and prosecuted with the utmost rigor of the law.” Might have caused less of a stir.

[@bronzedemon3862]

Northern Irish would do the same in the 80s. Some people never change it seems

[@bronzedemon3862]

Sorry mean to say 1960s

[@bitcoinweasel9274]

What a great question by that young lady.

[@jamesh6024]

Ben “Spoons” Butler had it coming.

[@timothyswag3594]

Where do I sign up

[@jordanwhite8718]

So Benjamin Butler was the first advocate of the phrase equal rights equal lengths?

[@ryankramer8779]

There is just one thing I can take from this... "FAIR SEX" MAH ASS! 😂

[@robertwaguespack9414]

I am told that Butler when he returned to Massachusetts brought with him valises full of silverware stolen from the people of New Orleans.

[@terribethreed8464]

My Great Grandmother was born in Corinth Miss., another battle site of the war & they did the same thing.

[@j.h-j5j]

Benjamin Butler was no simp!

[@tobiashagstrom4168]

It'd be a great twist if it turned out he was into that sort of thing.

[@victoriajenkins1424]

Bless their hearts

[@jaydonbooth4042]

Who knew Butler was such a progressive extremist. What an outrage! Such a man should be stripped of his rank and privilege.

[@Gia1911Logous]

-Benjamin Butler- *_CHAD "THE BEAST" CHADDINGTON_*

[@Americansigma8888]

Sorry sir, I didn’t mean to massacre the whole city. Damn cap and ball revolvers.