Frank G. Butterfield

Butterfield was born on May 11, 1842 in Rockingham, Vermont and was pursuing law at the Middlebury College before the outbreak of the war. He enlisted into the 6th Vermont Infantry on October 4, 1861 at Middlebury. He earned the Medal of Honor for his actions at Salem Heights on May 4, 1863. He was later promoted to Lieutenant-Colonel on command of his regiment on October 21, 1864.

Following the war he was a merchant operating on the Saxtons River and subsequently returned to school to complete his law qualifications. In 1880 and 1881 he was in charge of the tenth Vermont census, he led investigations into alleged census fraud in South Carolina and also assisted with the tenth Washington census. He then transferred to the Bureau of Pensions in 1882 and became chief of the special examination division in 1890. He resigned from public office in 1888 to pursue private business.[6]

Butterfield died on January 6, 1916 at the age of 73 and would be buried in the Saxtons River Cemetery in Saxtons River, Vermont.

Took command of the skirmish line and covered the movement of his regiment out of a precarious position.[3][4]

• List of American Civil War Medal of Honor recipients: A–F

• Frank G. Butterfield at Find a Grave

• Jacob G. Ullery (1894). Men of Vermont: An Illustrated Biographical History of Vermonters and Sons of Vermont. Brattleboro, VT: Transcript Publishing Company.