Once again, thanks to Debi - she always takes the time to educate us with interesting historical facts about the lives of our ancestors. Kathleen in CA ----- Original Message ----- From: <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Sunday, July 08, 2007 12:25 PM Subject: Re: [TNDAVIDS] Col. Thomas Butler > Col. Butler, who lived at Haysborough in Davidson County, was a close > friend > of President Andrew Jackson. The court marshall by Gen. James Wilkinson, > of > Butler for refusing to cut his hair to military regulations, began a > life-long fued between Jackson and Wilkinson. I seem to remember that > the 1805 > incident was Butler's second court marshall because of his hair. I'm not > certain > how true it is but I found the following on the internet: > > > 1805 - U.S. Colonel Thomas Butler was court martialed on a charge of > mutinous conduct. His commander had decreed that officers could no longer > wear their > hair in the traditional pony tail. Butler had worn his pony tail in the > American Revolution and refused to cut his hair. His sentence was a > forfeture of > a year's pay. He died a short time later leaving the following > insturctions in > his will: "Bore a hole through the bottom of my coffin, right under my > head, > and let my queue hang through it, that the damned old rascal will see > that, > even when dead, I refuse to obey his orders." Butler's burial > instructions > were followed. > _http://www.arlo.net/birthday/also.shtml_ > (http://www.arlo.net/birthday/also.shtml) > > > In the early 1800s, two hairstyle controversies involved men. The first > occurred in 1803 when Lieutenant Colonel Thomas Butler was court-martialed > for > favoring the longer style of the previous century and thereby disobeying > General > James Wilkinson's 1801 decree that military men's hair be cropped. > _http://www.answers.com/topic/hairstyle_ > (http://www.answers.com/topic/hairstyle) > > (http://www.arlo.net/birthday/also.shtml) > > > > > ************************************** See what's free at > http://www.aol.com. > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message >