127th Regiment

Elliott Butler served in the 127^th U.S.C.T., in Company A. He was born around 1835, in Franklin County, Pennsylvania.¹ In 1860, he was living in Shippensburg, Pennsylvania, with his wife Susan, and his children Ann and John. The census lists him as a laborer, but the description in his military records states that he is a lime burner.² He enlisted on August 23, 1864, in Carlisle, Pennsylvania, into Company A of the 127^th U.S.C.T., at twenty-eight years old. His records describe him as six feet tall, with black hair and eyes.