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Butterworth, Daniel

soldier, merchant, was born Oct. 31, 1831, in Utica, N. Y. He became a merchant in New York city. He was colonel of the twelfth New York militia when the civil war began. Accompanying his regiment to Washington in July, 1861, he led the adinto Virginia over the Long Bridge, joined Gen. Patterson on the upper Potomac, and commanded a brigade. On the enlargement of the regular army, he was commissioned a lieutenant-colonel, and assigned to the twelfth infantry, May 14, 1861; appointed brigadier-general of volunteers in 1861. vance