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Daniel Butterfield

Union Army General and Medal of Honor recipient

Died when: 69 years 259 days (836 months)
Star Sign: Scorpio

 

Daniel Butterfield

Daniel Adams Butterfield (October 31, 1831 – July 17, 1901) was a New York businessman, a Union general in the American Civil War, and Assistant Treasurer of the United States.

After working for American Express, co-founded by his father, Butterfield served in the Civil War, where he was soon promoted brigadier general, and wounded at Gaines' Mill.

While recuperating, he either wrote or re-wrote a popular bugle-call for burials, called Taps.He commanded a division at Fredericksburg, and then became Hooker's chief of staff, sharing both the credit for improved morale and responsibility for the licentious behavior that Hooker tolerated in camp.

He also became embroiled in Hooker’s political feuds with Burnside and Meade.Wounded at Gettysburg, he served in Sherman’s Atlanta campaign, before retiring from front-line service through illness.

He later received the Medal of Honor.In Grant's administration, he was Assistant Treasurer of the United States, abusing that position to manipulate the price of gold, and being forced to resign.

He then resumed his business career.Butterfield’s extensive war archives are displayed at Cold Spring, New York.


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