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DANIEL BUTTERFIELD (1831-1901)

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Originally appearing in Volume V04, Page 890 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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DANIEL See also:BUTTERFIELD (1831-1901)  , See also:American soldier, was See also:born in See also:Utica, New See also:York . He graduated at See also:Union See also:College in 1849, and when the See also:Civil See also:War See also:broke out he became See also:colonel of the 12th New York See also:militia See also:regiment . On the 14th of May 1861 he was transferred to the See also:regular See also:army as a See also:lieutenant-colonel, and in See also:September he was made a brigadier-See also:general U.S.V . He served in See also:Virginia in 1861 and in the See also:Peninsular See also:campaign of 1862, and was wounded at Gaines' See also:Mill . He took See also:part in the campaign of second See also:Bull Run (See also:August 1862), and in See also:November became See also:major-general U.S.V. and in See also:July 1863 colonel U.S.A . At Fredericksburg he commanded the V. See also:corps, in which he had served since its formation . After General See also:Hooker succeeded See also:Burnside, See also:Butterfield was appointed See also:chief of See also:staff, Army of the See also:Potomac, and in this capacity he served in the See also:Chancellorsville and See also:Gettysburg See also:campaigns . Not being on See also:good terms with General See also:Meade he See also:left the staff, and was soon after-wards sent as chief of staff to Hooker, with the XI. and XII. corps (later combined as the XX.) to See also:Tennessee, and took part in the See also:battle of See also:Chattanooga (1863), and the See also:Atlanta campaign of the following See also:year, when he commanded a See also:division of the XX. corps . His services were recognized by the brevets of brigadier-general and major-general in the regular army . He resigned in 1870, and for the See also:rest .of his See also:life was engaged in civil and commercial pursuits . In 1862 he wrote a See also:manual of See also:Camp and Outpost See also:Duty (New York, 1862) . General Butterfield died at See also:Cold See also:Spring, N.Y., on the 17th of July 1901 .

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Biographical Memorial, by his widow, was published in 1904 .

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