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FRANCIS E. BUTLER ARCHIVE

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FRANCIS E. BUTLER ARCHIVE
<p><b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:windowtext'>FRANCIS E. BUTLER ARCHIVE </span></b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial; color:windowtext'><BR><BR></span><b><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:Arial; text-transform:uppercase'>Chaplain Killed At Fredericksburg</span></b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial; color:windowtext'><BR><BR>(1825-1863). Chaplain 25th NJ Vols, KIA during battle of Fredericksburg, May 3. Butler was hit by a minié ball on May 2 while going through a cornfield to administer to wounded men of a Connecticut regiment. The ball struck the upper part of his haversack and went entirely through his body. He was dragged back behind a barn by a surgeon and died at 2 p.m. the next day. Butler was 1857 graduate of Yale Theological Seminary, he was an early supporter of the New York YMCA and was Pastor of the Congregational Church, Patterson, NJ. A fascinating archive including an original AMsS, 104pp, 4to, 1851, published in <i>American Sunday School Union</i>. Neatly penned and entitled “<i>The Class-Mates or Faith and Conscience,</i>” the “<i>characters presented are from real life and the incidents related are...true, almost literally true</i>...” VG. Also two letter books containing copies of all his private correspondence, 1849-51, containing much Christian philosophical content. Penned in brown ink, paper evidences moderate show-through and feathering; severe fading of few letters; o/w in fair/good condition. Also other miscellaneous short stories, some signed, sent to publisher Frederick A. Packard and others in very good condition. Included also are five letters to Butler from friends and family, 1839-56.</span></p>