Lot Details
Lot 170
Pair of Tile Inset Wainscoted Chests
19th Century
Each hinged top inscribed Gen. D. B. Butterfield Albany Building Cor. 51st & B Way New York City From S. Dering, Utica. Height 20 1/2 inches, width 52 inches, depth 23 1/2 inches.
Daniel Adams Butterfield, of Utica, New York, rose quickly through the ranks of the Civil War Union Army to become a Brigadier General and Chief of Staff at two separate occasions despite his lack of military training before the war. Though he was awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor for an act of heroism during the battle of Bull Run, where he commanded the V Corps of the Army of the Potomac, he was very disliked by his fellow officers. Regardless of their opinions, Butterfield's tomb is one of the most ornate at West Point and there is a monument to him in New York City near Grant's Tomb.
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