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.