Our Scarlet and Rhett

"Perhaps - I want the old days back again and they'll never come back, and I am haunted by the memory of them and of the world falling about my ears."   
Margaret Mitchell, Gone with the Wind
 

by Thomas Kinkade

Ok, "Gone With The Wind" this is not.....she was neither from the south nor did she live on a plantation. She was a city girl from Glens Falls, New York and I am not sure if he was a handsome rouge, but his last name was Butler!

As a young lady, Annie Huntington Rosekrans, the daughter of Judge Enoch Huntington Rosekrans and Caroline Elizabeth Josephine Beach, moved to Utica to complete her education at Miss Kelly's School.  Along the way, she met and fell in love with a young gentleman by the name of John Germond Butler.

John was a Civil War Union Army Officer. He served during the Civil War as Colonel and commander of the 147th New York Volunteer Infantry. 

During the infancy of their courtship, Annie had received word that John had been killed in the Battle of Big Bethel.

It is a tragedy that all military families fear.

However, destiny intervened and Annie's grieving was short lived when in walked her hearts desire returning from the war!  The happy couple were married 8 Aug 1861 at Glens Falls, New York.