here was a cartoon that ran in some magazine in the north right after benjamin butler's women's order was introduced and onlemented, so you can see this side the ladies of new orleans before general butler's is quite an -- that spit. that is a bull's-eye spit. and here they are after general proclamation.ximatio the idea that they are nasty,'s spitting prostitute before, and now we have brought them under control. was a kind ofr disturbing reminder -- i'm not applauding general butler -- a disturbing reminder that even about what isines proper for women being to do were being cross during a time of war that women would not move out of positions of subordination completely. feltneed that many women to be refined ladies also influence whether southern women resided to become nurses. in fact, many southern white women did not become nurses. they dislike the idea of being nurses, the idea that there might the untoward, unsavory contact the between themselves and lower-class men who were soldiers in the army. they believe as one woman put it tot it would be "injurious the delicacy and refi