Trivia 4-4-17 Beastly Encounter

[Trivia Master]

I was born in a city that "guards her buildings, customs, and laws" but moved to the City of Magnificent Intentions when my husband was elected to Congress. I was a fierce supporter of the Confederacy (they likened me to a fire-eater) and was actually placed under house arrest at the home of a famous spy. After this, my family and I moved to New Orleans where I encountered a beast who had me imprisoned and held on an island 65 miles outside of his lair, all in the name of an order he gave. After three and a half months, I was released and I returned to New Orleans amid the cheers of my supporters.

Question: Who am I? Whose house was I held at? Who was the beast I encountered and what order was it that caused my imprisonment?

credit: @1stMN

 

[Reb]

Eugenia Phillips, imprisoned in the attic of Mrs. Rose Greenhow.
Benjamin Butler is the beast.
On May 15, 1862, Butler issued General Order #28, what he called The Women's Order.

https://www.civilwarwomenblog.com/eugenia-phillips/

 

[Stony]

1. Eugenia Phillips
2. Attic of Mrs. Rose O'Neal Greenhow's home.
3. General Benjamin Butler
4. General Butler issued his famous Order No. 28:

When any female shall, by word, or 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.

source-https://www.civilwarwomenblog.com/eugenia-phillips/

 

[JohnW.]

You are:
Eugenia Levy Phillips

The beast was:
Benjamin Butler

The order was:
Order 28 (The Women Order)

The Civil War in America
Biographies

Eugenia Levy Phillips

Eugenia Levy Phillips (1819–1902) from A Belle of the Fifties. New York. Doubleday, Page & Company, 1904. General Collections, Library of Congress


Eugenia Levy Phillips (1819–1902) was a native of South Carolina and wife of Philip Phillips, who served one term as a Democrat from Alabama in the U.S. House of Representatives (1853-1855) before settling in Washington, D.C., to practice law. A fiery and outspoken Confederate sympathizer, Eugenia Phillips often found herself at odds with Union officials. In her journal, Phillips described the indignities of confinement with her two daughters and sister Martha after her initial house arrest by Federal officers on August 23, 1861, and further detention in the home of Rose Greenhow in Washington, D.C. Released after a three-week imprisonment, Phillips relocated to New Orleans, where she was accused of mocking the funeral of a Union soldier, thereby running afoul of the notorious General Benjamin "Beast" Butler, who issued a special order to imprison her on Ship Island, off the coast of Mississippi. Philip Phillips, able to secure his wife's release after a number of months, moved the family out of Union-held territory and into Georgia for the duration of the war.

Courtesy of the Library of Congress.

Edit - Question about the spy at whose house Phillips was held was answered in a subsequent post.

Hoosier

 

[kholland]

Eugenia Phillips was held with the rest of the family at the house of famous rebel spy Rose Greenhow. Benjamin "Beast" Butler enacted General Orders No. 28 which stated:" it is ordered that hereafter 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".

 

[DBF]

Who Am I: Eugenia Phillips
Where was I held: In the attic of the home spy Rose O'Neal Greenhow
Who was the beast: General Benjamin Butler
Cause of Imprisonment: The "infamous" Women's Order 28. She was heard to be laughing out loud and hosting a party for her children as a funeral cortege of a Union soldier passed by her home.
https://www.civilwarwomenblog.com/eugenia-phillips/

 

[hughes]

Ginny Phillips
Rosie Greenhow's home
Benny Butler
General Order #28

 

[ErnieMac]

I am Eugenia Levy Phillips. I was held at the home of Rose Greenhow in Washington, DC. Major General Benjamin Butler had Phillips held on Ship Island for violation of General Order No. 28.
http://southernmemoriesandupdates.c...uled-to-prison-for-laughing-at-union-funeral/

 

[Wallyfish]

She was Eugenia Phillips.
She was imprisoned in the attic of Mrs Rose O'Neal Greenhow's home.
The beast was none other than Benjamin Butler.
Butler's order was "The Women's Order".

FYI
She was finally held on Ship Island in the Gulf of Mexico.

https://www.civilwarwomenblog.com/eugenia-phillips/

 

[William G Hendry]

http://www.civilwarwomenblog.com/eugenia-phillips/

Mrs. Eugenia Phillips

Held at the home of Rose O,Neal Greenhow

The Beast is Gen. Benjamin Butler

Order # 28

 

[Schwallanscher]

1. eugenia levy-philips
2. rose o'neal greenhow
3. benjamin franklin butler
4. general order no 28 by maj gen benjamin f butler

 

[FarawayFriend]

Hm, I thought questions should not consist of so many parts?
Well then:
1) You are Eugenia Levy Phillips
2) You were under house arrest at the home of Confederate spy Rose Greenhow
3) The beast of course was Gen. Benjamin Butler
4) You were imprisoned because you constantly laughed during a Union funeral procession. Butler issued Special Order 150 to have you imprisoned on Ship Island off the coast of Gulfport, Mississippi: "having been once imprisoned for her traitorous proclivities and acts at Washington, and released by the clemency of the Government, and having been found training her children to spit on officers of the United States, for which act of one of those children both her husband and herself apologized and were again forgiven, [she] is now found on the balcony of her house during the passage of the funeral procession of Lieut. DeKay, laughing and mocking at his remains, and upon being inquired of by the Commanding General if this fact were so, contemptuously replies, "I was in good spirits that day."

Sources:
https://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=26864370

https://bonniekaryn.wordpress.com/2...d-to-ship-island-by-the-beast-general-butler/

Edit - The question didn't specify whether it was asking for the general order or the specific order under which Mrs. Phillips was sent to Ship Island. 150 is the correct number of the specific order, so this is a correct answer.

I've been allowing questions with as many as four parts. I really don't want to see questions with more than four parts.

Hoosier

 

[Brenal]

Eugenia Levy Phillips
Held at the house of Rose Greenhow,
by Major General Benjamin "Beast" Butler who accused Eugenia of laughing during a Union officer's funeral and teaching her children to spit on Union officers in defiance of
General Order No. 28, an order to the effect that any woman insulting or showing contempt for any officer or soldier of the United States should be treated as a woman of the town "plying her avocation"

 

[Schwallanscher]

addentum #4:

it might be argued that special order no 150 comes into play, but that didn't cause her imprisonment (nulla poena sine lege), it's more like a verdict (without trial)

i just wanted to add it, because i stumbled upon it later

 

[adisciu9]

Eugenia Levy Philips
Rosa Greenhow
Ben Butler
Order No. 28

 

[JOHN42768]

Eugenia Levy Phillips
Confederate Spy Rose Greenhow's house
Laughing at a union funeral procession. Violated General Order #28 under General Butler
Sent to Ship Island
Source: http://www.aboutfamouspeople.com/article1041.html

 

[JohnW.]

Addendum: Eugenia Levy Phillips was held under house arrest at the home of Greenhow, a Confederate spy.

 

[MRB1863]

Eugenia Levy Phillips


Born in Charleston, South Carolina, Eugenia Levy married Philip Phillips, a Jewish lawyer, in 1836. The family moved to Washington in 1853, when Phillips was elected to Congress from Alabama.

After serving one term in Congress, Phillips established a law practice in Washington. He pledged support to the Union. Eugenia was an outspoken supporter of the Confederacy and was suspected of being part of a spy ring run by Rose O'Neal Greenhow. Her support for the Confederacy was so strong that she became known as "a fire-eating secessionist in skirts."

Arrested in Washington
In August 1861, officials arrested Eugenia and two of her daughters. They were held under house arrest at Rose Greenhow's home, just a few doors from the White House. Eugenia kept a journal during her house arrest.

Former Congressman Phillips eventually secured his family's release on the condition that they head south. The family traveled to Richmond, Virginia. There, Eugenia delivered Union military maps and plans that she had smuggled out of Washington to Confederate President Jefferson Davis.

Imprisonment in Louisiana
In 1862, the Phillips family moved to New Orleans. Major General Benjamin "Beast" Butler accused Eugenia of laughing during a Union officer's funeral and teaching her children to spit on Union officers. He banished her to the mosquito-infested Ship Island 65 miles from New Orleans. Eugenia responded: "It has one advantage over the city, sir; you [Butler] will not be there."

Eugenia served 3½ months before returning to New Orleans, where cheering admirers greeted her.

Source: https://www.jhsgw.org/exhibitions/online/lincolns-city/exhibits/show/mr-lincolns-city/blue-gray/Phillips

Edit - This information is accurate, but the question asked for identification of the order, rather than the actions which Butler judged to be in violation of the order.

Hoosier

 

[MaryDee]

Yipe, a 4-parter! Clues: Birthplace--Charleston, SC. City of Magnificent Intentions is Washington DC. The New Orleans "beast" was Ben "Beast" Butler, and since our person is obviously female, his order would probably have been his infamous, but effective, "woman order."

Per http://www.civilwarhome.com/butlerwomanorder.html, "Except for a few isolated incidents, the insults stopped abruptly when the women learned they would be treated as common whores for demeaning a man wearing a U.S. army uniform. A few who persisted were arrested and imprisoned on Ship Island, notably Mrs. Philip Philips, who was confined from 30 June until mid-September for laughing when the funeral procession of a Federal officer was passing her house."

Wikipedia article, "Philip Philips (lawyer)" has the rest of the story.
"I" am (1) Eugenia Levy Philips, the sister of Phoebe Levy Pember.
Because of my extreme and publicly expressed pro-confederate views, (2) I and my older daughters were arrested and held at the home of Rose Greenhow, even though my husband was pro-union. We were expelled from Washington DC and ended up in New Orleans, which was soon after captured by David Farragut and (3) Benjamin "Beast" Butler. After a woman dumped a chamber pot on Farragut's head, (4) Butler issued his General Order #28, better known as his "woman order." I was arrested for laughing at the funeral procession of a Union officer.

More about this intrepid lady here: https://www.jhsgw.org/exhibitions/o...bits/show/mr-lincolns-city/blue-gray/phillips.

 

[nextcity]

Eugenia Phillips. She was held under house arrest at her own home. Ben Butler. General Order #28.

Edit - Although the official correct answer is that Phillips was held under house arrest at the home of Rose O'Neal Greenhow, some sources are ambiguous as to whose home she was held at, while others indicate she was originally held at her own home before being transferred to Greenhow's. Phillips may not have been as famous a spy as Greenhow, but she is recognized as a spy by historians today, so I will accept this answer.

Hoosier