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Otho L. Butler c. 1846

Otho Leland Butler of Christopher Street, in New York City, New York United States was born in 1846 in Richmond, VA to Patrick Henry Butler and Ann Elizabeth (Catlin) Butler. Otho Butler has siblings Lelia Estella Butler, William Catlin Butler, Nancy J. "Nannie" Butler, Mary Butler, and Franklin S. Butler.

Otho Leland Butler

Christopher Street, in New York City, New York United States

1846

Richmond, Virginia, United States

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Otho Leland Butler's History: circa 1846

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Otho L. Butler was a soldier in the United States Civil War. He was born in Richmond Virginia the oldest of five children. His father was a tobacconist and politician with a residence on 19th Street in the Church Hill neighborhood. When he was 5 years old he was poisoned, with laudanum, by the hired house servant / slave Phyllis. The quick work of several local doctors saved Otho's life and he made a full recovery. This case made the news much in Richmond as it occurred shortly after the famous Jordan Hatcher murder case. He spent much of his time growing up with his cousins Isaac Austin Gentry (Also a member of Mosby's Command), Charles Wesley Gentry and John William Gentry. His mother died when he was about 10 years old and he and his siblings were sent to live with various relatives. At this time he went to live full time with his father's sister Martha Butler Gentry and her family there in Richmond. When he was 12 years old he had another close call when he was shot in the back (with 76 pellets of #5 bird shot) by a farmer who mistook him for another boy who had stolen his property. Two years later at age 14 he enlisted in Parker's Battery. After the war followed his father to New York City where he lived until at least 1882. Otho did marry but his wife died in 1879. It is unknown if he had any children. Nothing is known of him after 1882.
1846

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1846

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Richmond, Virginia United States

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Ethnicity & Family History

Irish / English
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Native Born, United States
Religious Beliefs

Methodist
Military Service

Otho Leland Butler served in the Southern Army during the Civil War. He first joined William W. Parker's Company, Virginia Light Artillery which was organized in Richmond, Virginia, in March, 1862. It served in S.D. Lee's, E.P. Alexander's, and J.C. Huger's Battalion of Artillery, Army of Northern Virginia (The company was included in the surrender on April 9, 1865, but only 3 members were present. Captains J.T. Brown, Jr. and William W. Parker were its commanders.) He was only 14 and joined as a drummer with his father's permission.In 1863 after seven months service including at the Dunker's Church during the Battle of Sharpsburg (Antietam) Md, he was honorably discharged because he was an underage minor. At the time of his discharge his rank was Private indicating he may have actually served as a member of a gun crew rather than as a drummer. In 1864 he saught a position with the Confederate Treasury. In July of that year, unable to obtain employment with the Treasury, he and his cousin Isaac Austin Gentry went to Upperville Va, where they were enlisted by John Singleton Mosby as Privates in E Company of Mosby's Partisan Rangers ( both boys were about 16 years old and among the youngest in the command). They served until taken prisioner in 1865 in Winchester Virginia. On April 21, 1865 (almost 3 weeks after Gen. R.E.Lee's April 9th surrender at Appomatiox) they took their parole of honor in Winchester and returned home to Richmond.
Professional Career

After the war (1866) he first served as a Henrico County Policemen for Henrico County and the Suburbs. By 1870 Otho moved to New York City where he worked as a clerk.
Personal Life & Family

Mosby's Regt Virginia Cav. (Partisan Rangers.), William W. Parker's Company, Virginia Light Artillery
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Susan Traylor

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12/14/2015

Otho L. Butler

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Susan Traylor

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12/14/2015

Photo of Otho Leland Butler aka O.L. Butler from the photo "Colonel John S. Mosby and Some of His Men" (The Photographic History of The Civil War in Ten Volumes: Volume Four, The Cavalry. The Review of Reviews Co., New York. 1911. p. 171.) photo believed to be in Public Domain

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