Don Carlos Butler

 

 

The Daily Northwestern, Oshkosh

3 Sep 1931

 

Funeral services for Don C Butler, 82, a Civil War Veteran, were held this afternoon at 3 o'clock. Rev. E. B. Earle, Chaplin, officiated. Mr. Butler died at his home at Birnamwood. Internment was at the Home cemetery.

 

Survivors are the widow and four children, a son in Crandon, a daughter in Montana and a son and daughter in Chicago. Mr. Butler had been a resident of Wisconsin all his life, having been born in Two Rivers.

 

He was married at Royalton in 1875 and resided at Birnamwood since 1881. Mr. and Mrs. Butler had been members of the Home part of the time for the past three years.

 

 

Oshkosh Daily Northwestern

19 Jul 1938

 

Services Held at Home For Civil War Widow

 

Wisconsin Veteran's Home, Wis., Funeral services were held Sunday in the chapel in charge of the Rev. E. B. Earle for Mrs. Dora E Butler, Civil War widow and burial was in the Home Cemetery. Mrs. Butler who died in Waupaca following an operation for a goiter, with other complications, was born in 1859 in the town of Royalton and is survived by two daughters, Mrs. John Kortbein, Milltown, Mont., and Mrs. Charles Mierkey, Birnamwood and two sons, Harry Butler, Birnamwood and Dewey Butler, Chicago. There are 12 grandchildren and 12 great grandchildren, besides two brothers and a sister.

 

Don Carlos Butler

Native American Stockbridge/Munsee

Enlisted as Pvt 3 Wis Inf Co A on 20 Jan 1864 at the age of 15

Mustered out as Pvt 3 Wis Inf Co A on 18 Jun 1865

Time served 1y 4m 29d

Born 18 Mar 1849 at Two Rivers

Died 29 Aug 1931 at Birnamwood

Buried Veteran's Cemetery, King

Married 1875 to Dora E Ames  (1859-1938)

Children Bessie, Harry, Dewey (1888-1961) and Nina (1890-1975)

Pension

Service Record At Fayetteville, Tenn., till April 28. Atlanta (Ga.) Campaign May 1 to September 8. Demonstrations on Rocky Faced Ridge May 8-11. Battle of Resaca May 14-15. Cassville May 19. New Hope Church May 25. Operations on line of Pumpkin Vine Creek and battles about Dallas , New Hope Church and Allatoona Hills May 25 - June 5. Operations about Marietta and against Kennesaw Mountain June 10-July 2. Pine Hill June 11-14. Lost Mountain June 15-17. Gilgal or Golgotha Church June 15. Muddy Creek June 17. Noyes Creek June 19. Kolb's Farm June 22. Assault on Kennesaw Mountain June 27. Ruff's Station July 4. Chattahoochee River July 5-17. Peach Tree Creek July 19-20. Siege of Atlanta July 22-August 25. Operations at Chattahoochee River Bridge August 26-September 2. Occupation of Atlanta September 2-November 15. March to the sea November 15-December 10. Montieth Swamp December 9. Siege of Savannah December 10-21. Campaign of the Carolinas January to April, 1865. Robertsville, S. C., January 29. Taylor's Hole Creek, Aversyboro , N. C., March 16. Battle of Bentonville March 19-21. Occupation of Goldsboro March 24. Advance on Raleigh April 10-14. Occupation of Raleigh April 14. Bennett's House April 26. Surrender of Johnston and his army. March to Washington, D. C., via Richmond, Va., April 29-May 19. Grand Review May 24. Moved to Louisville, Ky., June 11-16, and there mustered out July 18, 1865.