Getting Ready to Do Some RoadTripping Through History

The last several posts have been about Elbridge and Daybury Butler, members of the 27th USCT who were at Fort Fisher.  Daybury was buried at Grandview Cemetery in Chillicothe, Ohio.  I looked the cemetery up and found that a lot of notable people were buried there.

There were Ohio governors, Congressman and Senators.  As well as War of 1812 veterans, including a ratherbfamous one named Duncan McArthur, a Civil War Medal of Honor recipient (Richard Endelin) and three Union generals.  (Joseph Scott Fullerton, Richard Long Jr. and Joshua Woodrow Sill).

I will be writing about these men in my Not So Forgotten: War of 1812 and Saw the Elephant: Civil War blogs.

Ready to Take a RoadTrip.  --Old B-Runner

Dabney Butler

From Black Virginians in Blue.

Dabney (Daybury) O. Butler was born around 1823 in Louisa County, Virginia.  He moved toAlbemarle County and is recorded in special census of free blacks of 1833.  He next moved with his family to Chillicothe, Ohio,  where he married  Susan Ann Evans on December  24, 1846.    The couple had at least six children together:  Elbridge born around 1849, Charles 1851,  Walter 1853, John 1855, Samuel 1860 and Ellen  1868.

On February  24, 1864,  Butler enlisted  in Company E of the 27th USCT regiment in Chillicothe.  He was mustered in at Camp Delaware, on March 8.  According to his service records,  he was a 43-yearold laborer, with black hair, eyes and complexion, who stood five feet, eight inches tall.

The 27th saw service during the siege of Petersburg, Virginia, begore being transferred in December to North Carolina.  In January it took part in the capture of Fort Fisher.  He mustered out with the rest of the 27th at Smithville, North Carolina on September21, 1865.

After the war, he returned to Chillicothe where he loved the rest of his days working as a brick mason.  Both he and his wife received pensions from the federal government.

Butler died around 1892 in Chillicothe, two years prior to his wife.  Both are buried in the city's  Grandview Cemetery.

--Old B-Runner

Elbridge C. Butler

From Find-A-Grave.

BIRTH:  1849

DEATH:  1911

BURIAL:  Grandview Cemetery, Chillicothe, Ross County, Ohio.

Son of Dabney O. and Susan A. Evans Butler.  Brother of Charles Butler Sr,.  His job was listed as bricklayer.

He was in the 27th USCT Infantry Regiment which fought at Fort Fisher.

--Old Secesh

Wondering About the Two GAR Members Named Butler

In the last post about the Wright GAR Post 588 in Chillocothe, Ohio, there were two members of the 27th USCT with the last name of Butler.  One of them, Elbridge was post commander at the time.  The other was named Dabury O. Butler.  I've seen several first names for Dabury.  One was Dabney, another was Daybury.  I'm going with Dabney.

The 27th USCT took part in the capture of Fort Fisher on January 15, 1865.  Since this is a major interest to me during the Civil War, that is why I have been writing a lot about the regiment.

The 27th was raised in Ohio primarily.

Were these two related?

--Old B-Runner

Wright Post 588, GAR (A Black Post)

From Military Record of Ross County, Ohio.  Based in Chillicothe.

WRIGHT POST NO. 588 Grand Army of the Republic

This was an organization for Blacks.

Organized April 21, 1886.  Named for William Leroy Wright, freeborn from Ohio.  He enlisted in Company B, Fifth United States Colored Troops, as a private, August 19, 1864, and was wounded in an engagement at Deep Bottom, in front of Richmond, Virginia, from the effects of which he died November 19, 1864.

Muster of members, with rank, company and regiment when in service and date of muster into Post.  Those mustered on April 21, 1886 were charter members (shown as cm).

These are the members who were from the 27th USCT which fought at Fort Fisher:

Butler, Elbridge C., 1st sergeant, Co. D, cm

Graham, James H., sergeant, Co. E,cm

Coleman, John, private, Co. C, cm

Butler, Dabury O.,  sergeant, Co. E, cm

Alexander, Thomas, private, Co. D, cm

Roberts, Alexander, private, Co. E, cm

Gray, George, private, Co. F, cm

Hammond, James, private, Co. F

Taylor, Charles, private, Co. C

Harrison, William H., private, Co. A

There were members from other USCT regiments in this post as well.

--Old B-Runner