The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-01-19
WEDDING IS RESULT
 0F HAPPY ROMANCE
Gen. M. C. Butler is Married in
 New York
WILL LIVE IN AUGUS "A
Hero of a Hundred Fights Is United In Marriage to Mrs. Mamie DeS. Whitman of
 Tuxedo.

New York January 1S.-(Special)-The New York Press says
 Hero of a hundred fights and veteran of two wars Maj Gen Matthew Gal braith Butler, former United States senator from South Carolina, and still regarded as one of the handsomest men below Mason and Dixon's line, Saturday married a southern belle, Mrs. , Mamie de S. Whitman of Tuxedo widow of Charles Sidney Whitman, in Grace church chantry. The ceremony was per formed at noon by the Rev. Dr. McKim. It was attended by the Generals son and a few other relatives of the pair, with fewer than a dozen close friends. Yet to society in the southland, it was one of the most important marriages of the season, for it recalled not only the bride groom's long and brilliant career-he is 69 years old-but the glories of the But lers of Edgeheld, one of the most inf1uen- tial families of ante-belum days. Nor was it without interest to New Workers. for the bride is prominent in Tuxedo society, and the General through his ] ancestor, Commodore Matthews Gal- braith Berry, brother of Commodore Oliver Hazard Perry of Lake Erie fame, | is a cousin of the Belmonts and Tiff | fanys.
 The union was a result of a romance
 nterwoven with official life in Washing
 ton. and mingled with history making in | connection with the war with Spain and
 the pacilication of Cuba. Mrs. Butler Is
 a member of a distinguished Maryland l family and is prominent in Washington. She spent much time there four years
 ago, and it was in that city she met l General Butler about a year after the death of his first wife, who was Maria | Pickens, daughter of a former Governor of Georgia. The general lad been a
 leading figure in Washington as a mem
 Der of the Senate, and he had acquired new prominence as one of the Cuban evacuation commissioners. He was popu- l lar as one of the first of the Confederate ! generals to offer his sword to Uncle Sam for the Spanish war Volunteering
 meant even more in General Buffers case than in Joe Wheeler's, for the South | Caroinlan lost a leg in the battle of Brandy Station in 1863 It was in recog- milton of his loyalty to the country that the Empire State society of the Sons of the American Revolution gave him a magnificent black charger in Chicl1amau- ga on the day it presented a sword to Brig. Gen. Frederick Dent Grant.
 General Butler and the charming widow soon became fast friends, and in the next three years their friendship ripened to a tender feeling. The Southeron though well along in the sixties. was not an i'm petuous wooer, however for it was not until five years after the death of his first wife that he married Mrs Whitman. His children approved the match, and Capt, Matthew c. Butler, U. s. A. his oldest son, fairly beamed at the wedding. The generals other supporters for the ceremony were Col Michael J. O'Bren and Perry Belmont. Mrs. Whitman was given away by her mother The newly welded pair left town shortly after the marriage for bridal tour of the south. They will live in North Augusta a suburb of Augusta, Ga, where the bride groom has large realty holdings
 The general was born in the palmetto state, but his father, a naval surgeon, took the family to Arkansas about 1S40. Young Butler returned to South Carolina and lived with his uncle in Edgefeld He was admitted to the bar in 1857, and was elected to the Legislature in 1860. Then he entered the Confederate army as captain of the Edgefeld Hussars. which were brigaded in the Army of Northern Virginia. In the following year he was made major, in 1862 a colonel, and in 1868. when he lost his leg a brigadier for con- spicuous gallantry. He took command of Wade Hampton's old brigade and when the surrender came was fighting Sher- man in South Carolina. General Butler at the close of the war returned to his home with S1.75 in his pocket to find himself $15,o00 in debt. He bull. for tune in the practice of law and first was elected to the Senate in 1877.