St. Paul daily globe., 1886-07-24

Lieutenant Buttz with twenty-five of
his men engaged 800 of the enemy,
and by dashing charge succeeded in tax
ing siXty-seven of the number prisoners and
capturing a rocket battery with good sup
ply of ammunition. The enemy thus hand
somely routed by the Jerseymen consisted
Of members of the Second Georgia cavalry
and one company of infantry. Thirty two
of the prisoners had severe wounds in the
head, inflicted by the sabres of the assail-
ants, whose loss was only one killed and
three wounded. While in this department
Lieutenant Buttz was on several occasions
detailed for service Oh courts martial as
judge advocate, and for period of two
months was provost martial at Suffolk.
When Longstreet besieged that place Lieu
tenant Buttz acted as aide-de-camp to
Major-General Peck.
Lieutenant Buttz, upon quitting the
service, commenced the practice of law at
Norfolk, where he became prominent in
political movements. He has received two
brevets-one as captain ''for gallant and
meritorious conduct in capturing from the
enemy full rocket battery" and the other
as major for gallant and meritorious SER
vice in front of Suffolk, both dating March
Is, 1865"
National Republican convention that met
in Baltimore in 1864. He took an active
part in the support of the restored govern
ment in Virginia at the time Pierepont
was governor. After Virginia was placed
in the reconstruction act he took an active
part in organizing the Republican party of
state, leading the bolt in the Republican
convention that nominated, in 1869, II. FL.
Wells for governor, Major ButtZ and his
friends nominating G. G. Walker for gov
ernor, who, being supported by the united
Democratic vote, was elected. Major
ButtZ was nominated ON the Independent
Republican ticket for congressman-at-
large, but withdrew from the ticket ten
days before the election.
In 1870 he removed to Charleston. S. c.,
where he was elected solicitor (state's at
torney) for the First Judicial circuit COM
posed of the counties of Charleston and Or
angeburg, in October. 1872, for the term of
four years. In 1874 he was nominated by
the Republican convention of the Second
Congressional district of South Carolina
for the Forty-fourth congress. The oppo-
sition selected E. w. NJ. Mackey, who re-
ceived the certificate of election. Major
Buttz contested his seat before congress,
and on the nineteenth day of July, 1876,
congress turned Mackey out and declared
the seat vacant. The Republican conven-
ton again unanimusly nominated Maj.
Buttz as their candidate, and at the cleo
ton, held November II, 1876, he was
elected to fill the vacancy in the Forty
against 13, OPS for M. P. O'Connor, Demo-
crat. At the same election he was reelected
solicitor of the First Judicial circuit for
four years by 5000 majority. Maj. Buttz
is modest, unaSsuming man, but he is a
hard worker, man of great energy and
self control.
He was elected in 1867 president of the
Great Republic Gold and Silver Mining
company, and spent one year in Europe en-
gagged in negotiating the company's books.
In 1880, he left South Carolina and settled
in Fargo, Oak, in 1888. He removed to
Lisbon, Ransom county, and was elected
district attorney in 1884 for a term of two
years. He owns farm of over l, 200 acres
at Buttzville, this county. upon which he
has one of the best barns in North Dakota
In 1882 he procured organization of Ransom
county, with the county seat located upon
the land of J. l.. Cotton. at Lisbon. A
lawsuit is now pending between Cotton and
Buttz involving 126 lots in the city of Lis
bon, worth S25, 600, He is executor of the
last will of Francis Peronto, and one of his
attorneys in the case of the Northern
Pacific Railroad company VS.. Francis
Peronto now in the United States supreme
court, involving 16O acres of land in the
center of the city of Fargo. valued at
81, ,OOO,0 900. He has two brothers, d. Fl.
and J. Buttz. both living at Buttzville,
Oak. D. 81. Buttz is the owner of the
grain elevator at that place. Together the
three brothers own farm of 5000 acres.