BRIAN JORDAN
speaks about
speaks about
"General Benjamin Butler"
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Presentation to the
Civil War Round Table of the District of Columbia
at the Fort Myer Officers' Club in Arlington, VA
on April 9, 2019
About the Topic:
Brian Matthew Jordan will discuss Union General Benjamin Butler, who became known in the South as the “Beast” for his actions as military governor after the fall of New Orleans. He will examine criticisms of Butler’s battlefield tactics as well as some of his questionable financial dealings during and after the war.
About the Speaker:
Dr. Jordan is assistant professor of history at Sam Houston State University in Huntsville, Texas, where he teaches undergraduate and graduate courses covering the Civil War and Reconstruction, American military history, and the U.S. history survey. A cultural historian of the nation’s fratricidal conflict, he is interested in the impact Civil War battles have on individual soldiers and the study of veteran memory.
Dr. Jordan is the author of Marching Home: Union Veterans and Their Unending Civil War, a narrative history of the men who won the war but could not adjust to the peace. The book received the 2016 Governor John Andrew Award of the Union Club of Boston and was a finalist for the 2016 Pulitzer Prize in History.
Dr. Jordan earned his B.A. in History/Civil War Studies from Gettysburg College in 2009; a M.Phil. and a M.A. in History from Yale University in 2012; and a Ph.D. in History from Yale in 2013, where his dissertation (supervised by David W. Blight) earned the 2014 George Washington Egleston Prize (for Best U.S. History Dissertation) and the 2014 John Addison Porter Prize, a university-wide award.
Dr. Jordan is currently editing a collection of essays about Union and Confederate veterans and a biography of the controversial Union general and Reconstruction leader, Benjamin Butler.
A native of Akron, Ohio, who admits now to being a proud Texan, Dr. Jordan serves as the book review editor for The Civil War Monitor and is a member of the Society of Civil War Historians.
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