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Federal (USV)

Private

Franklin Walter Butler

(1843 - 1917)

Home State: Indiana

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 14th Indiana Infantry

Before Antietam

In 1860 he was a 16 year old carpenter living with Dr. Thomas Richards and his family at Salt Creek in Jackson County, IN. He enlisted and mustered at Terra Haute, IN on 7 June 1861 as a Private in Company F, 14th Indiana Infantry.

On the Campaign

He was wounded in the head in action at Antietam on 17 September 1862.

The rest of the War

He was appointed Sergeant, date not given, and mustered out on 6 June 1864.

After the War

In 1870 he was again living with Dr. Richards and a carpenter in Jackson County, IN. In 1880 he was a carpenter in Bartholomew County, IN but by 1900 was working in Prescott, AZ and lived with his daughter Emma and her family. He was retired and living with his daughter Louisa in Phoenix in 1910.

References & notes

Casualty information from Nelson1. His service from the Adjutant General.2. Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860-1910. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

He married Susan Helen Whiteside (1853-before 1900) in October 1870 and they had 3 daughters.

Birth

02/22/1843 in IN

Death

07/04/1917; Phoenix, AZ; burial in Greenwood Memory Lawn Cemetery, Phoenix, AZ

Notes

1 Nelson, John H., As Grain Falls Before the Reaper: The Federal Hospital Sites and Identified Federal Casualties at Antietam, Hagerstown: John H. Nelson, 2004, pg. 151 [AotW citation 17030]

2 State of Indiana, Adjutant General's Office, and William H.H. Terrell, Adjutant General, Report of the Adjutant General of the State of Indiana, 8 volumes, Indianapolis: (various) State Printers, 1865-1869, Vol. 4, p. 282 [AotW citation 33623]

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