Butler and his Cavalry in the War of Secession, 1861-1865

by Ulysses Robert Brooks

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First edition

Columbia, SC: State Co., 1909. First edition. 8vo. 591 pp. Illustrated from photographs, plates, portraits. Matthew C. Butler 1836-1909 earned command of the 2nd South Carolina cavalry in August, 1862, but soon after commanded a brigade and then a division under both Stuart and Hampton; following the war he served as a U.S. Senator from south Carolina, 1877-1895. Nevins I, p. 64: Eulogies, recollections, and testimonies from comrades form a hodgepodge of

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