Edward George Washington Butler (1829 - 1861)

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Died 7 Nov 1861 at age 32 in Mississippi, Missouri, United States

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Biography

Edward was born in 1829. He was the son of Edward Butler and Frances Lewis. He passed away in 1861.

p. 294-5: “He first graduated at the University of Virginia, at Harvard and at New Orleans Law School, was Secretary of Legations at Berlin for six years; at the beginning of the Civil War, entered the Confederate Army as Major of the Eleventh Louisianna Infantry and died gloriously in the battle at Belmont, in 1861, desiring General Polk to tell his father that he “had died like a Butler in the discharge of his duty.” In delivering the message with his dead body, General Polk remarked to his father: “You have reason to be proud of such a son and to be reconciled to such a death;” and General R.E. Lee wrote: “I still grieve over the death of your gallant son; his message to you through General Polk proves him a hero.” He is buried in Pass Christian, Miss.”

Sources

• The Butler Family in America, Compiled by William David Butler, John Cromwell Butler, and Joseph Marion Butler, Shallcross Printing Co, St. Louis, MO

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