harges, save that of _wearing his hair_. He was then ordered to
New Orleans, where he arrived, to take command of the troops, October
20th. He was again arrested next month; but the court did not sit
until July of the next year, and their decision is not known. Col.
Butler died Sept. 7, 1805. Out of the arrest and persecution of this
sturdy veteran, Washington Irving (Knickerbocker) has worked up a fine
piece of burlesque, in which Gen. Wilkinson's character is inimitably
delineated in that of the vain and pompous Gen. Von Poffenburg.

Percival Butler, the fourth son, father of General Wm. O. Butler, was
born at Carlisle, Pennsylvania, in 1760. He entered the army as a
lieutenant at the age of eighteen; was with Washington at Valley
Forge; was in the battle of Monmouth, and at the taking of
Yorktown--being through the whole series of struggles in the Middle
States, with the troops under the commander-in-chief, except for a
short period when he was attached to a light corps commanded by La
Fayette, who presented him a sword. Near the close of the war he went
to the South with the Pennsylvania brigade, where peace found him. He
emigrated to Kentucky in 1784. He was the last of the old stock left
when the war of 1812 commenced. He was made adjutant-general when
Kentucky became a State, and in that capacity joined one of the armies
sent out by Kentucky during the war.

Edward Butler, the youngest of the five brothers, was too young to
enter the army in the first stages of the Revolution, but joined it
near the close, and had risen to a captaincy when Gen. St. Clair took
the command, and led it to that disastrous defeat in which so many of
the best soldiers of the country perished. He there evinced the
highest courage and strongest fraternal affection, in carrying his
wounded brother out of the massacre, which was continued for miles
along the route of the retreating army, and from which so few escaped,
even of those who fled unencumbered. He subsequently became
adjutant-general in Wayne's army.

Of these five brothers four had sons--all of whom, with one exception,
were engaged in the military or naval service of the country during
the last war.

1st. General Richard Butler's son, William, died a lieutenant in the
navy, early in the last war. His son, Captain James Butler, was at the
head of the Pittsburg Blues, which company he commanded in the
campaigns of the Northwest, and was particularly distinguished in the
batt