Alexandria daily advertiser. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1803-1808, 1806-01-15
BIOGRAPHY.
FROM THE LOUISIANA GAZETTE.
Bn9,atbrai Sketch g ,be late
~ Col. lHoMAS GUTLER.

The charsctsr and actioas of mcrttorious men,
in ali ages, nave oeensre4d vim pieaiu,e. ltIs
/ a tribute due to yitsuc to record The actions
of thofe who are wershy OF emuiasioH. -
fOur country is as, il has ieng been at peace ;
war achievements and waIIike men a!e
mott forgorten; unle!s when a newspaper an.
! nouuces in few lines, the death Of Some revo.
lusunary chief; and the type has not been EN-
ploysi IN reeor ling the death OF QUE mote Ia
,renita sthan the late Col. Thomas Butler. II
virtue, honor, herevolence, honeay, found
heart, and clear head ,unised with bravery, con-
fi;tute gsoa MAJ, he poGeGed them. He was in
! TIE year us (the year that is4o mach boafed
of--ibat frisd men's /eaA,l !,udcnt az law w:sh
; the 'emin,.. Judge Wilton OF Philadelphia car
ly in sha year hr qait,rd MS tsudieo and joined
the army as hba!it,n ioon r~t1 to tic grade
Of Csp;ain, ard co7,innsd 10 it iii The a,pry
and piorIous clCfe OF the reveia!on. 1bcls
wci brothers Of the Buffers tia, joined thu A.
mcrican caufc, and fought during the w5g, ard
LETT ihe4fr, vice with the following gtaie, viz.
ECal. Richard Batter, Col Wm. Dailer, CAptlin
Thomas Butter, Lieut.. Pierce Butler, and Lieut..
! Edward Butter, move OF them now living buy
Pierce Butler. Thomas. 5utle7, Whole memory
we with to perpctuate, was In alnioft every &C.
ton that WIS fought in the middle Rares during
the war at the battle Of Bgan1ywine he Tcceiy.
ed the thanks Of the il!uhtous Wilmington, en-
the field cfbattle, through hi: aid. &C camp Gen.
! Hamilton, for his n:iep!d cond.,a in rallying a
detsshm of retresipg tsocps. and giving the
enemy levere Are. At thc battle Of Monmouth
he received the thanks OF General Wayne for De.
| feeding deile in TIE face ct a heavy Are from
the enemy, while Col. Richard Buffers resi.
men, made good their rcIest at the cioie OF
the war he retircd into private life IS farmer,
where he enjoyed rufal and domett;c happiness
| anti' l7e, when he again took the field 20 zee;
fsvaee Zoe, that mepaced our frontier, and the
intortunate fourth OF November, of rhat year,
IS TOO we'll known lie WIS dsngeronily wonni.
cd, and witch difficulty and great hazard, his
brother, Capt. Edward Better, cot him IF ,h:
field, where they left Gen. Richard Butler q
corpfs! In 1892 he was continued on the caab.
iifhlncns as Major, and was promoted in 1894 &c
Lieut.. Col. N-ommanddnt OF the An Snb-leston
He commanded Fort fayettc a, P;ttfburg thai
year, when his name alone tor he had bur fcs
troops prevented the delaied infurgents from "a.
king the fort. in I7y7 he vas named by pref
dent Washington as the otEte. set calculated TO
command in I'd. State Of TcnneEcc, when IL wa.
neceRary TO difponcls fomc ci;izens that had i'm.
prudenly feitled on The Indian lands accord.
ingly in May of that year lie marched with
his reginenr from the Miami on the Ohio, and
by that prudence and god fenic ,h>t
ever marked his chafactcy through LIE, he, in a
ihort tirns removed al difficulties, the fatisfac.
ton Of thefe concerned as firm and Iaitine
proof OF il, he holds tie reipecr and eGesm OF all
the viftuous mn 10 tie State. Hc made feyerai
luccetsfui trearies with the Indians while in he
fate of Ten6eGee. In The year 1902, a, tie
reduction of the army, he WAS continued as Col.
OF the &c regiment of Infantry on the peace ef
tabiiIhment. Here his biogrsphcr hops-2aofes
what c@n he write more he can announce 70
the World that Col. Butter WAS arrested by the
Commencing General in@sSo,; at Fort Adams
on the h1IHaippi, ieHt to- frederick Tcwn, Ma,
rytaad. where he was tried by general Cour,
Martial, and acquitted honor*bly of all the char,
ges, except that Of wearing his hair, which he
held asa gil, OF nature, ard was Of opinion, ths.
no power on earth had legal right to take it
Ifom him which opinion he held ill his
.
ae&th. Alter his Trial lie was ordered 20 New.
Orleans there TO take command OF the troops
which he Did on the zoih October, 1904, and on
the ao'h November following was again a,relted
tor lot cropping off his hait! AnG not until
fae1arf. OF July did court conssae for his &c.
cond trial. the rctuIt Of their deciEon is not yc,
known. Since bls lat arrcf he LOFT his wife, who,
hike himfelf, was universally lamentcd by the
good and vir1uous. She died near Nafhyille,
Tennsfec. In conlequence Of her death and the
deranged hsuation of his Affairs. h. (olcied
leave from the Honorable Secretary of War ard
The commanding general TO rcsurn TO Tennsfee.
as ioon as the Cosrt Martial was over. Alas
this application was paaed over in Gience, no an
f1ef wa, even giyea him ! He was adyifcd to
move out OF she CITY, which lie did in the later
pat ot July, and on the 9Th Gf September, paid,
the ereat deht of natufe aocd v~ays II.