BUSSEY.
BUTLER.
BUSSEY, Cyrus, soldier, was born at Hub-
bard, Trumbull county, Ohio, Oct. 5, 1833; son of
Rev. A. Bussey, a ijrominent Methodist clergj--
man. At sixteen he commenced business on his
own account at Dupont, Ind., having acquired
two years* experience in a dry-goods store. In
1855 he removed to Bloomfield, Iowa, established
himself in a mercantile business, and became
prominent in politics. In 1858 he was elected as
a Democrat to the Iowa senate, and in 1860 was
chosen a delegate to the national Democratic con-
vention which nominated Stephen A. Douglas
for the presidency. In 1861 he was appointed
aid- de-camp on the staff of Governor Kirkwood,
and vvas charged with the defense of the southern
borders of the state. Hearing, in July, that the
Confederates Avere massing near the northern
frontier of ]Missouri preparatory to entering Iowa
and taking Keokuk by storm, he seized a con-
signment of a thousand guns, in transit from the
war department to some point in the west, and
arming the 4th Iowa infantry, he forestalled the
proposed movement hj advancing into Missouri
and dispersing the invaders. He was appointed
colonel of the 3d Iowa cavaliy, a vohmteer regi-
ment, which he had raised, and being ordered
to join the armj- of the southwest, then stationed
at Sugar Creek, Ark., he covered the distance of
tw^o hundred miles in four days. He commanded
a brigade at the battle of Pea Eidge, and after
the engagement pursued the defeated foe as far
as the Boston mountains. His gallantry on this
occasion won the enthusiastic admiration of his
men, who presented him with a handsome sword.
In the Ai'kansas campaign of 1862 he commanded
a brigade, and in 1863 was assigned first to the
command of the district of east Arkansas, and
later to the command of the 2d cavah-y division
of the army of the Tennessee. In the Vicksburg
campaign he led the advance, under General
Sherman, in pursuit of Johnston, whom he over-
took and defeated in an engagement at Canton,
Miss. , finally forcing him to retreat across Pearl
river. His conduct in this engagement was
rewarded in January, 1864, with promotion to
the rank of brigadier -general, and he Avas given
command of a division of the 7th corjjs, and also
of the district including western Arkansas and
the Indian territory. At the close of the war he
retired to private life with the rank of brevet
major-general, and engaged in the commission
business at St. Louis, later removing to New
Orleans, where he was president of the chamber
of commerce for six years, and was conspicuously
identified with the procuring of the congressional
appropriation for the Eads jetties at the mouth
of the ^Mississippi river. He was a delegate to
the Republican national convention, 1868. and in
the convention of 1884 he was an active sup-
porter of Mr. Blaine's candidacy. In 1889 he
was appointed assistant secretary of the interior,
and in adjudicating the appeals from the adverse
decisions of the pension commissioners some of
his rulings attracted great attention, and the
department collected and publLshed these rulings
in four large volumes. General Bussey resigned
from the interior department in 1893, and opened
an oQice in Washington, D. C, where he con-
ducted a general law practice betore the district
courts, the departments and congressional com-
mittees.
BUSTEED, Richard, lawyer, was born in Cavan, Ireland, Feb. 16, 1822; son of George Washington Busteed, a colonel in the British army, and afterwards a barrister at Dublin. The father was a strong emancipationist, which fact caused his removal from his office as chief secre- tary of the island of St. Lucia in 1829. He left Ireland and settled in London, Canada, where he published the True Patriot. During his boyhood Richard worked as a compositor in the office of his father and followed the same trade subse- quently at Cincinnati, Ohio ; at Hartford, Conn. , and at New York, where he also engaged in local preaching, by license of the Methodist church. He was admitted to the bar in 1846, and his able defense of a number of extradition cases assured his success as a lawyer. From 1856 to 1859 he was corporation counsel of New York city. He supported Douglas in the presidential campaign of 1860, and joined the Union army in 1861. He was appointed brigadier-general of volunteers, and commanded a brigade at Yorktown, Va. , but he sent in his resignation to President Lincoln March 10, 1863, hearing that the strong combina- tion likely to be brought against him on account of his attitude in the slavery question would pre- vent the confirmation ot his appointment by the senate. In the following year he was appointed U. S. district judge for Alabama by President Lincoln; his appointment being unanimously confirmed by the senate. His decisions, especially as to the unconstitutionality of the test oath prescribed by Congress, as appKed to attorneys practising in U. S. coui'ts, which were after- wards confirmed by the U. S. supreme coui-t, and his rulings in regard to the habeas corpus act in 1875, are noteworthy. In 1874 he resigned his office and returned to New York. He died in New York city, Sept. 14, 1898.
BUTLER, Andrew Pickens, senator, was born in Edgefield district, S. C, Nov. 17, 1796; son of William Butler, revolutionary soldier. He was graduated at South Carolina college in 1817, was admitted to the bar in 1819, and soon rose to a prominent position in his profession. He became a member of the state legislature in 1824. com- manded a cavalry regiment during the nuUifica-
