Republican (nationalist) President Abraham Lincoln, of the united States—without a constitutional amendment—signs the Department of Agriculture Act, creating the Bureau of Agriculture, within the Department of the Interior.

       Question: How did the voluntary Union survive its’ first 86 years without a bureau of agriculture?

       [restored 4/2/2022]

       Compulsory Union Major General Benjamin “Beast” Butler, military Commandant of New Orleans, issues General Order Number 28:

       As the officers and soldiers of the United States [who have invaded your State and are killing your husbands, brothers and sons] have been subject to repeated insults from the women … of New Orleans …it is ordered that thereafter when any female shall, by word, gesture, or movement, insult or show contempt for any officer or soldier of the United States, she shall be regarded and held liable to be treated as a woman of the town plying her avocation.

       NOTE: This order allowed any officer, or Soldier, under Butler’s command to commit rape against any woman under his jurisdiction.

       [restored 4/2/2022] Thanks to Freedom’s Phoenix for this entry.