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BUTLER, ALEXANDER T, Companies A, B & I, corporal, enlisted
for 3 years in Buena Vista, Carroll Co, TN on 8/10/62 and
mustered in Benton Co, TN or Huntingdon, TN on 8/17/62 at
age 30/32/37 (b. 10/10/1827). Butler furnished his own
horse and equipment. He was appointed corporal on 8/18/62.
He was one of the 100 or more members of the detachment of
the 7th Tennessee stationed at forts along the
Tennessee/Mississippi border who went AWOL in June 1863.
He either returned to the unit or was captured while AWOL.
Butler spent time in Andersonville Prison in Georgia and
was exchanged through Savannah, GA in the November/December
1864 exchanges. He mustered out on 6/28/65 due to
disability. He was given transportation from Louisville, KY
to Buena Vista, TN. which probably means he spent time in
the Jeffersonville, IN hospital because of the scrobutus he
contracted in prison. Married to Elizabeth Smith in 1846,
it was their son Littlefield who is mentioned in the
hospital record as a contact relative. In 1887 Butler was
a member of the Isaac R Hawkins Post #58 of the GAR and
gave his occupation as farmer. He applied for an invalid
pension in 1889 and is buried in the Humble Cemetery in
Carroll Co, TN with a military marker. His wife received a
widow's pension. MR #3092
Sources:
- Ancestry.com. Tennessee, Marriage Records, 1780-2002
- THE 7TH TENNESSEE CAVALRY USA (Originally 2nd West Tennessee Volunteer Cavalry) Peggy Scott Holley
