May 19, 1864: Butterfield's (3rd) Division, XXth Corps US, moving southeast from McDow's, left the road here and marched to the Hawkins Price house, en route to Kingston The 1st and 2nd Divisions US, on roads west, had the same objective - an erratic move by Sherman who assumed that Johnston's Army CS had retreated on Kingston.
He graduated in 1849 from Union College in Schenectady, New York, where he became a member of the Sigma Phi Society and was employed in various businesses in New York and the South, including the American Express Company, which had been co-founded by his father, John Warren Butterfield, an owner of the Overland Mail Company, stage-coaches, steamships, and telegraph lines.
Daniel Butterfield - his son, the Civil War General, credited with composing Taps
Daniel Boone | Daniel Webster | Daniel Patrick Moynihan | Daniel Barenboim | Daniel Defoe | Daniel Amos | Daniel | Daniel O'Connell | Daniel Libeskind | Daniel Craig | Paul Butterfield | Jack Daniel's | Daniel Radcliffe | Daniel Chester French | Daniel Boulud | Daniel Dennett | Daniel Day-Lewis | Daniel Collopy | Daniel Buren | Daniel Auber | Daniel Johnston | Daniel Ellsberg | Butterfield Overland Mail | Daniel Stern | Daniel O'Donnell | Daniel Burnham | Daniel Nestor | Daniel Henney | Daniel Boone (TV series) | Daniel Spoerri |
The memorial is crowned with a maltese cross and has numerous interior and exterior bronze tablets which include 2 bas-reliefs of Generals Daniel Butterfield and Francis Barlow.
In July 1862, at Harrison's Landing (now Berkeley Plantation), Virginia, Norton, as regimental bugler, was the first ever to play "Taps", which was written then and there by Gen. Daniel Butterfield, the regimental commander.
Ex-U.S. Vice President Levi P. Morton (in office 1889-1893) was nominated for Governor on the first ballot (vote: Morton 532½, J. Sloat Fassett 69, Cornelius N. Bliss 40½, Stewart L. Woodford 40, Daniel Butterfield 29, Leslie W. Russell 20, James Arkell 1).