Benjamin Butler Autographs
Benjamin Franklin Butler (November 5, 1818 – January 11, 1893) was an American major general of the Union Army, politician, lawyer, and businessman from Massachusetts. Born in New Hampshire and raised in Lowell, Massachusetts, Butler was a political major general of the Union Army during the American Civil War and had a leadership role in the impeachment of U.S. president Andrew Johnson. He was a colorful and often controversial figure on the national stage and on the Massachusetts political scene, serving five terms in the U.S. House of Representatives and running several campaigns for governor before his election to that office in 1882.
Butler, a successful trial lawyer, served in the Massachusetts legislature as an antiwar Democrat and as an officer in the state militia. Early in the Civil War he joined the Union Army, where he first gained renown when he refused to return escaped slaves, designating them as contraband of war, an idea that the Lincoln administration endorsed and that played a role in making emancipation an official war goal. Later in the war, he was noted for his questionable military skills and his controversial command of New Orleans, which made him widely disliked in the South and earned him the "Beast" epithet. His commands were marred by financial and logistical dealings across enemy lines, some of which may have taken place with his knowledge and to his financial benefit.
At the request of General-in-Chief Ulysses S. Grant, President Abraham Lincoln relieved Butler from the posts he held in the Union Army after his failure in the First Battle of Fort Fisher, but he soon won election to the United States House of Representatives from Massachusetts. As a Radical Republican he considered President Johnson's Reconstruction agenda to be too weak, and he advocated harsher punishments of former Confederate leadership and stronger stances on civil rights reform. He was also an early proponent of impeaching Johnson. After Johnson was impeached in early 1868, Butler served as the lead prosecutor among the House-appointed impeachment managers in the Senate impeachment trial proceedings. Additionally, as Chairman of the House Committee on Reconstruction, Butler authored the Ku Klux Klan Act of 1871 and coauthored the landmark Civil Rights Act of 1875.
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Current items with a signature of Benjamin Butler
These are the most current items with a signature of Benjamin Butler that were listed on eBay and on other online stores - click here for more items.
| Picture | Item Title | Price | Store |
 | Civil War General General Benjamin Butler Framed ALS signed letter | $245.00 |  |
| Civil War General General Benjamin Butler Framed ALS signed letter | $245.00 | |
Traded items with a signature of Benjamin Butler
The most expensive item with a signature of Benjamin Butler (General Butler in New Orleans James Parton 1864 w Signed Letter Benjamin Butler) was sold in August 2025 for $399.99 while the cheapest item (1885 Benjamin Butler,onboard Schooner,(Civil War Union General?)signed letter) found a new owner for $1.25 in November 2013. The month with the most items sold (2) was July 2012 with an average selling price of $88.14 for an autographed item of Benjamin Butler. Sold items reached their highest average selling price in October 2016 with $350.00 and the month that saw the lowest prices with $1.25 was November 2013. In average, an autographed item from Benjamin Butler is worth $56.00.
Most recently, these items with a signature of Benjamin Butler were sold on eBay - click here for more items.
| Picture | Item Title | Price | Store |
 | 1862 bank check signed by Civil War Major General Benjamin Butler w/ engraving | $85.00 |  |
| 1862 bank check signed by Civil War Major General Benjamin Butler w/ engraving | $85.00 | |
| 2019 Historic Autographs Civil War Divided Autograph Benjamin Butler Union Gen | $71.01 | |
| 2019 Historic Autographs Civil War Divided Autograph Benjamin Butler Union Gen | $71.01 | |
| Benjamin Butler Signature with a PSA/DNA COA | $194.95 | |
| Benjamin Butler Signature with a PSA/DNA COA | $194.95 | |
| CIVIL WAR GEN BENJAMIN BUTLER 1867 Signed Free Frank Cover + Gen Kinsman Letter | $68.00 | |
| CIVIL WAR GEN BENJAMIN BUTLER 1867 Signed Free Frank Cover + Gen Kinsman Letter | $68.00 | |
| CIVIL WAR GEN BENJAMIN BUTLER 1887 Typed Letter SIGNED To Gen Kinsman in EGYPT | $49.99 | |
| CIVIL WAR GEN BENJAMIN BUTLER 1887 Typed Letter SIGNED To Gen Kinsman in EGYPT | $49.99 | |
| Georgia-Alabama Investment and Development Co. signed by Benjamin Butler - Stock | $325.00 | |
| Georgia-Alabama Investment and Development Co. signed by Benjamin Butler - Stock | $325.00 | |
| Rare 1873 Benjamin Butler Massachusetts Signed Letter 33 Governor Massachusetts | $99.00 | |
| Rare 1873 Benjamin Butler Massachusetts Signed Letter 33 Governor Massachusetts | $99.00 | |
| Union General Benjamin Butler Archive: 4 Items, 2 being Signed - BUTLER Lot 10 | $350.00 | |
