...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,...movement, insult or show contempt for any officer, or a soldier of the US, she shall be regarded and held liable to be treated as a woman of the town plying...

...during the war with his order that the next Southern woman who insulted his troops on the street would be "regarded and held liable to be treated as a woman of the town plying her avocation" — this nemesis of the South, now a Republican congressman from Massachusetts, did indeed make a long,...