Russell. Muddy Glory: America's Indian Wars in the Philippines, 1899–1935. West Hanover, Massachusetts: Christopher Pub. House, 1981. Schemmel, William. Georgia Curiosities: Quirky Characters, Roadside Oddities & Other Offbeat Stuff. Guilford, Conn.: Globe Pequot Press, 2011. Smith, Elsdon Coles. The Story of Our Names. Detroit: Gale Research, 1970. Spignesi, Stephen J. The Titanic for Dummies. Hoboken, New Jersey: John Wiley & Sons, 2012. Thomas, William Sturgis. Members of the Society of the Cincinnati, Original, Hereditary and Honorary: With a Brief Account of the Society's History and Aims. New York: T. A. Wright, 1929. United States Army. Official Army Register for 1912. Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, December 1, 1911. Watterson, John Sayle. The Games Presidents Play: Sports and the Presidency. Baltimore, Maryland: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006. Primary sources Butt, Archibald W. Taft and Roosevelt: The Intimate Letters of Archie Butt, Military Aide (2 vols. 1930), valuable primary source. vol 1 online also vol 2 online Abbott, Lawrence F. "Introduction." In Butt, Archibald Willingham. The Letters of Archie Butt, Personal Aide to President Roosevelt. Lawrence F. Abbott, ed. Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, 1924. "Archibald W. Butt." (No author given.) In Butt, Archibald W. Both Sides of the Shield. Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott Co., 1912. Taft, William Howard. "Foreword." In Butt, Archibald W. Both Sides of the Shield. Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott Co., 1912. External links Major Archibald Butt Writes Travel Agent Day Before Boarding Titanic Archibald W. Butt Papers. Georgia Department of Archives and History. Eulogy for Major Archibald Butt written by President William Howard Taft Shapell Manuscript Foundation "Archibald Willingham Butt letters, 1908–1912." Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library. Emory University. 100 Years Ago Today: Major Archibald Butt, D.C. Resident, Boards Titanic for Transatlantic Crossing – Ghosts of DC blog Film footage including Major Butt at the 1909 Ft. Myer Virginia Army Trials for the Wright Brothers airplane; he appears as the soldier with high boots and gloves and Chaplin-like mustache: at 00:35, 01:05, 01:33–02:11 (joined by President Taft) 1865 births 1912 deaths Members of the Romanian Orthodox Church Military aides to the President of the United States Sewanee: The University of the South alumni United States Army officers Deaths on the RMS Titanic Writers from Augusta, Georgia