...Butler's General Order Number 28, known as the "Woman Order," issued on May 15. Its wording was blunt: "When any female shall, by word, gesture, or movement,...officer or soldier of the United States, she shall be ... held liable to be treated as a woman of the town plying her vocation" — as a prostitute, that...

...provoked Butler to issue his infamous Woman Order. In it, he declared that all women in New Orleans "shall be regarded and held liable to be treated as a woman of the town plying her avocation." This outraged Southerners and some Northerners, but it did seem to stifle some of the visible and vocal...

...any woman who voiced disrespect for Union officers or soldiers (including blacks in uniform) was to be "regarded and held liable to be treated as a woman of the town, plying her vocation." The chivalrous South was deeply offended by this Yankee outrage. Confederate women were...

...insults from the women (calling themselves ladies) of New Orleans," this order read, "it is ordered, that hereafter, when any female shall, by word, gesture...treated as a woman of the town plying her avocation." When the mayor of New Orleans, John T. Monroe, protested the order, he was arrested. Prime Minister...

...Orleans, in return for the most scrupulous non-interference and courtesy on our part, it is ordered that hereafter when any female shall, by word, gesture...or show contempt for any officer or soldier of the Untied States, she shall be regarded and held liable to be treated as a woman of the town plying her...

...subject to repeated insults from the women (calling themselves ladies) of New Orleans ... it is ordered that hereafter when any female shall, by word, gesture,...movement, insult or show contempt for any officer or soldiers of the United States, she shall be regarded as held liable to be treated as a woman of the...

...ORLEANS, In return ftr the most scrupulous NONINTERFERENCE and COURTESY on our part, It Is ordered that hereafter when any female shall by word, gesture,...movement, insult or show contempt for any OFFICER or PRIVATE of the UNITED STATES she shall be regarded and held liable to be TREATED as A WOMAN OF THE...

...any female shall by mere gesture or movement insult, or show contempt for any officers or soldiers of the United States, she shall be regarded and held liable to be treated as a woman about town plying her avocation. The British press indulged in a delirium of vicious writings about...

...shall show contempt for any officers or soldiers of the United States," he decreed that any such would "be regarded and held liable to be treated as a woman of the town plying her vocation." CIVILIAN WOMEN IN WAR ZONES "Woman of the town" was hardly the worst of the epithets directed...

...abused Northern soldiers he issued the notorious proclamation that if any woman insulted or showed contempt for "any officer or soldier of the United States, she shall be regarded and shall be held liable to be treated as a woman of the town plying her avocation." This provoked furious...