The Kalida venture. [volume] (Kalida, Ohio) 1841-1865, 1848-06-06

anu Contihucu III tne enjoyment OF rural and
domestic happiness until the year 1901
when he again took the field to meet the
savage foe that inenaced our western from
tier. He commanded battalion in the dis
astrous battle ofNovember 4, l79I in which
his brother fell. Orders we're given by Gen
ST. Clair. to charge with the bayonet, and
Major Butler, though his leg had been bro
ken by ball, yet on horseback, led his bat
talon to the charge. II was with difficulty
his surviving brother, Capt. Edward Butler,
removed him from the Geld. In 1892 he
was continued in the establishment as major
and in 1884 he was promoted 10 the rank of
lieutenant colonel commandant of The 4ih
sub-legion. He commanded in this year Ft.
Fayette, at Pittsburgh, and prevented the de-
lpded insurgents from taking it, more by his
name than by his forces, for he had but few
troops. The close of his life was embittered
with trouble. In 1903 he was arrested by
the commanding general Wilkmson--at Ft.
Adams, on-the Mississippi, aud sent to Mary
land, where he was tried by court-martial,
and acquitted of all the charges, save that of
Wearing his hair. He was then ordered to
nand Of the troops, October Goth. He was
again arrested next month; but the court did
not SIT until July of the next year, and their
decision is not known. Col. Butler died
September Z, 1905. Out Of the arrest and
persecution of this sturdy veteron, Washing.
ton Irving (Knickerbocker) has. worked up
fine piece of burlesque, in which General
Wilkinson's character is inimitably delinea-
ted in that Of the vain aud pompous General
Won Pofenburg. r. yi7at
Percival Butler, the fourth son, father of
Gen. VIM. o. Butler, was born at Carlisle,
Pennsylvania, in 1850. He entered the ar.
my as a lieutenant at the age of eighteen;
was with Washington at Valley Forge; was
| in the battle of Monmouth, and at the taking
of Yorktown--being through the whole Sc
ries of struggles in the Middle States, with
the troops under the commander-in-chief,e ex-
cept for short period when he was attached
to light corps commanded by La Fayette,
who presented him sword. Near the close
of the war he went 10 the South with the
Pennsylvania brigade, where peace found
him. He emigrated 10 Kentucky in l7s4.--
He was the last of the old stock left when
the war Of 1912 commenced He was made
adjutant-general when Kentucky becase a
State, and in t'Iat capacity joined one of the
armies sent out by Kentucky during the war.
Edward Butler, the youngest of the five
brothers, was too young to enter the army
in the first stages Of the Revolution, but
joined it near the close, and had risen 10 a
,o on,a;noy ,pban Gon g. Clair tooL Tho cnpo
mand, and led it TO that disastrous defeat in
which so many of the best soldiers Of the
country perished. He there cvinced the
highest courage and strongest fraternal afec-
tion, in carrying his wounded brother out of
the massacre, which was continued for miles
along the route OF the retreating army, and
from which so few escaped, even of those
who fe unencumbered. He subsequently
became acknowledgement IN Wayne's army.
Of these five brothers four had sons--all
of whom, with one exception, were engaged
in the military or naval service of the coun-
try during the last war.
lst. General Richard Buffers son, Will
liam, died a lieutenant in the navy, early in
the last war His son, Captain James But
,ler, was at the head of the Pittsburgh Blues,
which company lie commanded in the cam
paigns Of The Northwest, and was particular
ly d stinguished in the battle of Massssinna-
wa. bss t.,,4..., ,,.t ..,7 ..t..f |
3D. Colonel William Butler, also of the
revolutionary army, had two sons, one died
in, the navy, the other a subaltcrn in Wayne's
army. He was in the battle with the Indians
in 1874. mass NJ M. s.s.
!. Sd. Lieut.. Col Thomas Butler, Of the old
stock, had three sons, the eldest Judge
The second, Col. Robert Butler, was at the
head Of Gen. Jackson's staff throughout the
last war. The third. William E. Butler, also
served in the army Of Gen. Jackson.
4th. Percival Butler, captain in the revo-
lunonary war, and adjutant-general Of Ken
lucky during The last war. had four sons;
first, Thomas, who was captain, and aid to
Gen. Jackson at New Orleans. Next, Gen.
VIM. o. Butler, the subject Of this notice.
Third, Richard, wfo was assistant adjutant-
general in the campaigns of the war of 1872.
Percival Butler, the youngest son, now ads
,tingushed lawyer, was not of an age 10 bear
arms in the last war. OF this second gene
ration Of the Buffers, there are nine GER
tainly, and probably more, engaged in the
present war.gW set.t ll 9ae Egf
"a This glance atthe family shows the char
acterI Of the race. An anecdote, derived
from letter of an old Pennsylyania friend
to the parents, who transp!anted i from Ire
land, shows that its military instinct was an
inheritance. "Whi!e the FIVE sons saysthe
letter, "were absent from homo in the SET
vice of the country, the old father took il in
his head to 60 also. The neighbors collec- |
ted to remonstrate against il; but his wlte
said, let him go! j can got along without
him, and raise something to feed the army