Editing Archibald Butt (section)

==Funerals, memorials, and papers==
On May 2, 1912, a memorial service was held in the Butt family home with 1,500 mourners, including President Taft, attending.<ref name=tafttears /> Taft spoke at the service, saying:<ref>Quote in Mowbray, p. xvi.</ref>
{{blockquote|If Archie could have selected a time to die he would have chosen the one God gave him. His life was spent in self–sacrifice, serving others. His forgetfulness of self had become a part of his nature. Everybody who knew him called him Archie. I couldn't prepare anything in advance to say here. I tried, but couldn't. He was too near me. He was loyal to my predecessor, Mr. Roosevelt, who selected him to be military aide, and to me he had become as a son or a brother.}}

At a second ceremony, held in Washington, D.C., on May 5, Taft broke down and wept, bringing his eulogy to an abrupt end.<ref name=tafttears>"Taft in Tears as He Lauds Major Butt." ''New York Times.'' May 6, 1912.</ref>

===Memorials===
Several memorials to Butt were created over the years.  A [[cenotaph]] was erected in the summer of 1913 in Section 3 of [[Arlington National Cemetery]].<ref>Peters, p. 217; "Monument for Major Butt, Titanic Victim." ''The Reporter.'' May 1913, p. 35.</ref><ref>Wilson, Scott. ''Resting Places: The Burial Sites of More Than 14,000 Famous Persons'', 3d ed.: 2 (Kindle Locations 6625–6626). McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers. Kindle Edition.</ref> Butt himself had selected the spot earlier.<ref>[http://www.govexec.com/federal-news/fedblog/2012/04/federal-official-titanic-hero/41742/ "Federal Official, Titanic Hero." ''Government Executive.'' April 11, 2012.] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120413150447/http://www.govexec.com/federal-news/fedblog/2012/04/federal-official-titanic-hero/41742/ |date=April 13, 2012 }} Accessed May 18, 2012.</ref> In October 1913, the [[Butt-Millet Memorial Fountain]], named for Archibald Butt and Francis Millet, was dedicated near the [[White House]] on the [[President's Park#President's Park South (Ellipse)|Ellipse]].<ref>"Memorial to Titanic Dead." ''The Washington Post''. October 26, 1913.</ref> In [[Augusta, Georgia]], the [[Butt Memorial Bridge]] was dedicated in 1914 by Taft.<ref>McDaniel, p. 108.</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=Opening of Butt Memorial Bridge, Augusta, Georgia, April 14, 1914|url=http://dlg.galileo.usg.edu/vang/id:ric080|website=Vanishing Georgia|publisher=Digital Library of Georgia|access-date=June 20, 2016}}</ref> The [[Washington National Cathedral]] contains a large plaque dedicated to Major Archibald Butt; it can be found on the wall in the museum store.<ref>{{cite web|title=Archibald Butt Memorial Plaque|url=http://www.glts.org/memorials/dc/cathedral.html|website=Great Lakes Titanic Society|access-date=June 20, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160703040130/http://glts.org/memorials/dc/cathedral.html|archive-date=July 3, 2016|url-status=live}}</ref>

Sculptor [[Jorgen Dreyer]] was awarded a commission to create a sculpture to commemorate Butt. The commissioned piece, which Dreyer completed on June 15, 1912, was a bust of Butt situated on a base representing a ship on the ocean.  The work was entitled ''The Message''.

A government supply boat made of concrete was also named after Butt. It was one of nine experimental craft (all named for deceased members of the Quartermaster Corps) built by the [[Newport News Shipbuilding|Newport Shipbuilding Corporation]] in 1920 in [[New Bern, North Carolina]].<ref>"Atlantic Coast Notes." ''The American Marine Engineer.'' June 1920, p. 30.</ref> It was sold to an aquarium in Miami, Florida, in 1934 and was later sunk or scuttled in [[Biscayne Bay]].<ref>[http://www.postandcourier.com/news/2012/feb/13/no-ifs-ands-or-butts-its-sawyer/ Behre, Robert.  "No Ifs, Ands, or Butts, It's Sawyer." ''The Post and Courier.'' February 13, 2012.] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120215185645/http://www.postandcourier.com/news/2012/feb/13/no-ifs-ands-or-butts-its-sawyer/ |date=February 15, 2012 }} Accessed April 13, 2012.</ref>

===Papers===
During his time serving Roosevelt and Taft, Butt wrote almost daily letters to his sister Clara. These letters are a key source of information on the more private events of these two presidencies and provide insights into the respective characters of Roosevelt and Taft.<ref name="Clara" /><ref>Gould, p. 224.</ref> [[Donald E. Wilkes Jr.]], professor of law at the [[University of Georgia School of Law]], has concluded, "All definitive biographies of Theodore Roosevelt and William Howard Taft necessarily rely on information in Archie's letters."<ref>Wilkes, Jr., Donald E. [http://digitalcommons.law.uga.edu/fac_pm/21/ "On the Titanic: Archie Butt"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170812031708/http://digitalcommons.law.uga.edu/fac_pm/21/ |date=August 12, 2017 }} ''The Athens Observer'' April 28 – May 4, 1994, p. 6.] Accessed May 18, 2012.</ref> These letters (which overlap somewhat) have been published twice.  The first collection, ''The Letters of Archie Butt, Personal Aide to President Roosevelt'', was issued in 1924.<ref name="OToole">O'Toole, p. 408.</ref> A second set of letters, ''Taft and Roosevelt: The Intimate Letters of Archie Butt, Military Aide'', was published in two volumes in 1930 after Taft's death.<ref>Graff, p. 363.</ref>

Butt's letters are housed in the Georgia Department of Archives and History in [[Morrow, Georgia]], with a microfilm set also residing at [[Emory University]] in [[Atlanta]].<ref name="OToole" /><ref name=Crown>{{cite book | last = Brewster | first = Hugh| title = Gilded Lives, Fatal Voyage: The Titanic's First-Class Passengers and Their World | publisher = Broadway Books; Reprint edition|year=2013| isbn =978-0307984814 }}</ref>