[Sunday May 4, 1863]

Chaplain Butler died today in the Division Hospital at Suffolk, one of only eleven Union chaplains known to have fallen in battle.

William Nelson's History of Bergen and Passaic Counties, New Jersey eulogized him as "a man of the most exalted character and the purest patriotism...universally beloved by the men in whose service he so bravely died."

[Sunday, May 3, 1863]

Chaplain Francis Butler was hit by a Confederate sharpshooter while he was carrying water and helping wounded soldiers on the field.