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Rebel Butler laid to rest 132 years after Civil War death
In Spotsylvania Virginia a Civil War relic skull known as Rebel Butler was buried with a Confederate ceremony. Gregory T. Collins led reenactors at the grave, noting the long-awaited burial answers families long denied. The skull had been kept in a museum after a Union doctor found it on the battlefield in 1864.
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Spotsylvania
Butler
Gregory T. Collins
Spotsylvania Confederate
Collins
Spotsyl
Vania
Virginia
Henry County Historical Society Museum
New Castle
Ind
Betty Lou Heintz
Wayne Retter
Sons of Confederate Veterans