Frederick M. Dearborn collection of military and political Americana, Part II: The Civil War and the Confederacy, 1832-1915.

Lee, William Henry Fitzhugh, 1837-1891

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William "Rooney" Henry Fizhugh Lee (1837-1891) was a farmer, politician, soldier, and General in the Army of the Confederate States of America during the American Civil War. Lee was the second son of the famous Civil War General Robert E. Lee and Mary Anna Randolph Custis. ...

Grant, Ulysses Simpson, 1822-1885

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Ulysses S. Grant (born Hiram Ulysses Grant, April 27, 1822, Point Pleasant, Ohio-died July 23, 1885, Wilton, New York) was the 18th president of the United States, serving from 1869 to 1877. As president, Grant was an effective civil rights executive who worked with the Radical Republicans during Reconstruction to protect African Americans, created the Justice Department, and reestablish the public credit. Promoted lieutenant-general, in 1864, Grant led the Union Army in winning the American Civ...

Hahn, Michael, 1830-1886

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Georg Michael Decker Hahn (November 24, 1830 – March 15, 1886), was an attorney, politician, publisher and planter in New Orleans, Louisiana. He served twice in Congress during two widely separated periods, elected first as a Unionist Democratic Congressman in 1862, as a Republican to the U.S. Senate in 1865, and later as a Republican to the U.S. House of Representatives in 1884. He was elected as the 19th Governor of Louisiana, serving from 1864 to 1865 during the American Civil War, when the s...

Benjamin, J. P. (Judah Philip), 1811-1884

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Judah Philip Benjamin, QC (August 6, 1811 – May 6, 1884) was a lawyer and politician who was a United States Senator from Louisiana, a Cabinet officer of the Confederate States and, after his escape to the United Kingdom at the end of the American Civil War, an English barrister. Benjamin was the first Jew to hold a Cabinet position in North America and the first to be elected to the United States Senate who had not renounced his faith. Benjamin was born to Sephardic Jewish parents from Londo...

Engelhard, J. A. (Joseph Adolphus), 1832-1879

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Major Joseph Adolphus Engelhard (1832-1879) was a graduate of the University of North Carolina and attended Harvard Law School, later practicing law in Tarboro, N.C. Engelhard served in the Confederate Army, attaining the rank of major. Following the war, he obtained a substantial interest in the Wilmington (N.C.) Journal newspaper, acting as editor. He was elected to the office of Secretary of State for the state of North Carolina, a post which he held until his death....

Thompson, Jacob, 1810-1885

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American politician. From the description of Letter signed : "Department of the Interior," to J.S. Black, Attorney-General, 1858 May 25. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270572142 From the description of Letter signed : "Department of the Interior," to J.S. Black, Attorney General, 1857 Dec. 17. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270572137 From the description of Signature clipped from the register of Brown's Hotel : Washington, D.C., 1858 Jun. 9. (Unknown). WorldCat reco...

Cobb, Howell, 1815-1868

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Howell Cobb (September 7, 1815-October 9, 1868) was an American lawyer and diplomat. He served as congressman (1843-51; 1855-57), Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives (1849-51), governor of Georgia (1851-53), and secretary of the treasury (1857-60). Following Georgia's secession from the Union in 1861, he served as president of the Provisional Confederate Congress (1861-62) and a major general of the Confederate army. Cobb was born in Jefferson County on September 7, 1815, the eldest ...

Colfax, Schuyler, 1823-1885

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Schuyler Colfax Jr. (March 23, 1823 – January 13, 1885) was an American journalist, businessman, and politician who served as the 17th Vice President of the United States from 1869 to 1873, and prior to that as the 25th Speaker of the House of Representatives from 1863 to 1869. Elected to the U.S. House of Representatives for Indiana's 9th congressional district as a member of the anti-slavery Indiana People's Party in 1854, Colfax joined the Republican Party during his first term. He served as ...

Patrick, Marsena Rudolph, 1811-1888

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Patrick was born in Hounsfield, Jefferson County, New York (near Watertown). He worked on the Erie Canal and briefly taught school. He was appointed to the United States Military Academy in nearby West Point, and graduated in 1835. Initially appointed a brevet second lieutenant in the infantry, he was promoted to first lieutenant in 1839, serving in the Seminole Wars. Patrick served in the Mexican–American War and was again promoted, this time to captain, in 1847. He was appointed brevet major i...

Houston, Sam, 1793-1863

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Texas politician, soldier, and frontier hero. He was the first president of the Republic of Texas and served as a United States Senator for that state. From the description of Letter, ca. 1855. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122699442 From the description of Letter, 1859. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 145435304 Sam Houston's colorful public life began with his heroic action during the war of 1812. He served as congressman and governor of Tennessee, spent years amon...

Clark, Charles, 1810-1877

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Price, Sterling, 1809-1867

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Missouri governor. From the description of Papers, 1856. (Duke University Library). WorldCat record id: 36115930 Gov. of Missouri. From the description of Letter signed : City of Jefferson, to President Pierce, 1853 Nov. 27. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270619013 ...

Mansfield Lovell

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Kean, Robert Garlick Hill, 1828-1898

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Chief clerk, Confederate Bureau of War, Lynchburg lawyer. From the description of Papers of Robert Garlick Hill Kean [manuscript] 1826-1922. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 647967689 ...

Maj. Parker

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Lowrey, Robert, 1830-1910

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Adams, John, 1825-1864

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John Adams was a 1st Lt. in the Regimental Dragoons of the U.S. Army. After secession of Tennessee he resigned his commission and joined the Confederate Army where he attained the rank of Brigadier General. From the guide to the John Adams U.S. Army pay voucher, 1856, (The New York Public Library. Manuscripts and Archives Division.) ...

Lida Perry

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Wright, Marcus J. (Marcus Joseph), 1831-1922

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Wright, a Memphis, Tennessee lawyer, joined the Confederate army, and became a brigadier general in December 1862. After the war he collected material for the Official Records. From the description of Letter, July 7, 1864. (Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library). WorldCat record id: 477282755 Confederate general, author. From the description of Papers of Marcus Joseph Wright, 1872-1901. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 32958249 Marcus Joseph ...

Winder, John H. (John Henry), 1800-1865

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Confederate general. From the description of Autograph letter signed : Richmond, to Gen. H. A. Wise, 1864 Feb. 5. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270588263 U.S. Receiver of public lands at Detroit, Michigan, 1826-1828; bookkeeper, American Fur Company, Mackinac Island, Michigan, 1828-1829; and clerk of the Michigan Territorial Supreme Court, 1829. From the description of John Winder papers, 1825-1834. (University of Michigan). WorldCat record id: 34423131 ...

Gen. James Longstreet

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Gardner, William Montgomery, 1824-1901.

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William Montgomery Gardner (1824-1901) was a United States army officer in the Mexican War and a Confederate brigadier general. From the guide to the William Montgomery Gardner Papers, ., 1818-1915, (bulk 1847-1866), (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Southern Historical Collection.) U.S. army officer and Confederate brigadier general. From the description of William Montgomery Gardner papers, 1818-1915 (bulk 1847-1866) [manuscript]. WorldCat ...

Fagan, James Fleming, 1828-1893

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Villepigue, John Bordenave, 1830-1862

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Winder, John H. (John Henry), 1800-1865

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Confederate general. From the description of Autograph letter signed : Richmond, to Gen. H. A. Wise, 1864 Feb. 5. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270588263 U.S. Receiver of public lands at Detroit, Michigan, 1826-1828; bookkeeper, American Fur Company, Mackinac Island, Michigan, 1828-1829; and clerk of the Michigan Territorial Supreme Court, 1829. From the description of John Winder papers, 1825-1834. (University of Michigan). WorldCat record id: 34423131 ...

Taylor, W. H

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BIOGRAPHY W.H. Taylor, for whom this collection is named, was a San Mateo, California, resident at the time of his gift, and was with W. H. Taylor & Co., Ltd., Investment Securities, in San Francisco. From the guide to the W. H. Taylor Collection, 1837-1938, (Department of Special Collections and University Archives) ...

Pettus, John Jones, 1813-1867

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Col. W. H. Allen

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Smith, William Duncan, 1825-1862.

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Taylor, William H.

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Drayton, Thomas, 1808-1891

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Richard Taylor

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Hardee, D. C.

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Polk, Lucius Eugene, 1833-1892

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Ashby, Turner, 1828-1862

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Virginia resident (Arlington County). From the description of Letters, 1869. (Duke University Library). WorldCat record id: 31421763 Ashby was acting Adjutant; also father of Turner Ashby, a military officer in the Confederacy. From the description of Morning report, 1814 August 10, Fredericksburg, Va. (Dartmouth College Library). WorldCat record id: 6134646 ...

Withers, William Temple.

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Smith, John Peter, 1831-1901

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Campbell, Alexander William, 1828-1893

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Hampton, Wade, 1818-1902

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Wade Hampton (1818-1902) was a planter, Confederate officer, governor of South Carolina, and United States senator. From the guide to the Wade Hampton Papers, ., 1813-1891, (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Southern Historical Collection.) South Carolina governor. From the description of Letter : Columbia, S.C., to Gen. Conner, 1880 October 31. (The South Carolina Historical Society). WorldCat record id: 32140158 Confederate Army off...

Cox, John Z.

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Col. Smith

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Cook, Hatch.

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Twiggs, David Emanuel, 1790-1862

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American general. From the description of Autograph letter signed : Matamoros, to Lt. H.H. Sibley, 1846 May 23. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270573661 U.S. and Confederate army officer. From the description of David Emanuel Twiggs correspondence and price estimate, 1849-1859. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 70980672 ...

Evans, Clement A. (Clement Anselm), 1833-1911

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Clement A. Evans (1833-1911) was a native of Stewart County, Georgia, and, before the Civil War, judge of that county's court and a Georgia state senator. During the war he served with the Army of Northern Virginia as brigadier general and, in November 1864, as division commander and acting major general in John B. Gordon's Corps. After the war he became a Methodist minister, retiring in 1892. He served on the state board of prison commissioners, and wrote diligently about the war. ...

Col. Ignatius Syzmanski

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Hawes, James Morrison, 1824-1889

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Miles, William Porcher, 1822-1899

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William Porcher Miles (1822-1899) was a South Carolina educator, mayor of Charleston, S.C. (1855-1857), United States Representative (1857-1860), member of the Confederate House of Representatives and chair of its Military Affairs Committee. After the Civil War, he was a planter in Virginia, then president of South Carolina College, then a planter again, this time in Louisiana. Miles married Betty Bierne (d. 1874), the daughter of Oliver Bierne, a wealthy Virginia and Louisiana planter, in 1863....

Johnson, Bushrod Rust, 1817-1880

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Carroll, William Henry, 1810-1868

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Lt. Dubois

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Bragg, Elisa.

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Bragg, Thomas, 1810-1872

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Thomas Bragg was governor of North Carolina, 1855-1859; a United States senator from North Carolina, 1859-1861; and Attorney General of the Confederate States of America, 1861-1863. From the guide to the Thomas Bragg Papers, ., 1861-1862, (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Southern Historical Collection.) U.S. senator and governor of North Carolina, Confederate attorney general, and lawyer. From the description of Certification of Thomas Bragg...

Mason, James Murray, 1792-1871

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Steuart, George Hume, 1828-1903.

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Army officer, of Baltimore, Md. From the description of Papers, 1817-1882; (bulk 1847-1861). (Duke University Library). WorldCat record id: 20188619 ...

Frenholm, G. A.

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Johnston, Joseph E. (Joseph Eggleston), 1807-1891

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Confederate general. From the description of Letter (copy), 1861 Sept. 11 : Manassas, Va., to G.T. Beauregard. (Rosenbach Museum & Library). WorldCat record id: 122489351 From the description of Autograph letter signed : Selma [Alabama], to Colonel Blanton Duncan, 1867 Jan. 2. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270489683 From the description of Letter, October 9, 1861. (Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library). WorldCat record id: 443082432 Benjamin Stoddert E...

Capt. W. F. Lynch

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Smith, William Taylor.

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Gordon, William Fitzhugh, 1787-1858

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Congressman from Virginia; introduced bill providing for establishment of independent treasury. From the description of Letter : Washington, D.C., to John S. Willford et al., 1834 May 28. (Bryn Mawr College). WorldCat record id: 28838314 ...

Terrill, John T.

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Dunnington, James W.

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Snead, Thomas L. (Thomas Lowndes), 1828-1890

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County official and state representative from Johnston Co., N.C. From the description of Papers, 1856-1871. (Duke University Library). WorldCat record id: 40761600 "Col. Thomas Lowndes Snead... was born in Henrico County, Va., Jan. 10, 1828. He was graduated from Richmond College in 1846 and the University of Virginia in 1848, and afterward studied law. He moved to St. Louis in 1850... In 1861 Mr. Snead was appointed aide de camp of Gen. Claiborne F. Jackson... ...

Rector, Henry M. (Henry Massey), 1816-1899

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Born in Kentucky, later moved to Arkansas where he served in the House of Representatives and the Senate as well as a justice of the Arkansas Supreme Court. Served as Governor of Arkansas, 1860-1862 and then joined the army to fight for the Confederacy. From the description of Letter, April 11, 1862. (Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library). WorldCat record id: 53969477 U.S. surveyor general for Arkansas, state legislator, and Arkansas governor. From the descriptio...

Barnwell, Robert Woodward, 1801-1882

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U.S. senator, U.S. representative, C.S.A. senator, from South Carolina, and educator. From the description of Robert Woodward Barnwell correspondence, 1868. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 79450147 American politician, US Congressman from S.C., 1829-1833, US Senator, 1850-1851, Confederate Congressman 1862-1866. From the guide to the Robert Woodward Barnwell paycheck and autograph, 1832, (The New York Public Library. Manuscripts and Archives Division.) La...

Lt. M. G. Hudson

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Hill, Ambrose Powell, 1785-1858

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Randal, Horace.

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Maj. John Taylor

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Sharp, Jacob Hunter, 1833-1907

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Martin, J. G. (James Green), 1819-1878

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Tyler, John, 1790-1862

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John Tyler (b. March 29, 1790, Charles City County, Virginia–d. January 18, 1862, Richmond, Virginia), was the tenth President of the United States (1841–1845) and the first to succeed to the office following the death of President William Henry Harrison....

Wilson, Claudius Charles, 1831-1864

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Tilghman, Lloyd, 1816-1863

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Gordon, John Brown, 1832-1904

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John Brown Gordon (1832-1904), Confederate General, Georgia Governor (1886-1890), and U.S. Senator (1873-1880, 1891-1897), born in Upson County, Georgia. From the description of Letters to Henry F. Emery, 1901-1903. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 38478315 One of Georgia's most renowned political and military figures of the nineteenth century, John Brown Gordon was born on a plantation situated along the banks of the Flint River in Upson County on February 6, 1832. As a child...

Matthews, Robert A., 1963-

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Wigfall, Louis T. (Louis Trezevant), 1816-1874

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U.S. senator from Texas. From the description of Family papers of Louis T. Wigfall, 1858-1909. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 82561857 U.S. Senator and brigadier general in the Confederate Army. From the description of Letter, 1862. (Duke University Library). WorldCat record id: 39522013 Louis Trezevant Wigfall (1816-1874), educated at South Carolina College and the University of Virginia, became involved in controversial political arguments...

Jenkins, Micah, 1835-1864

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Co-founder and teacher of King's Mountain Military School in York, S.C., with Asbury Coward, 1855; served as Colonel of the 5th Regt., SC Volunteers, and Brigadier-General during the Civil War; killed by friendly fire at Battle of the Wilderness, 1864; graduate, S.C. College, 1855; son of John Jenkins and Elizabeth Clark Jenkins of Edisto Island, S.C.; husband of Caroline Hall Jamison, daughter of David Flavel Jamison. From the description of Micah Jenkins papers, 1854-1936. (Univers...

Willis, Edward

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Jackson, Henry R. (Henry Rootes), 1820-1898

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Henry R. Jackson (1820-1898), Brigadier General, Confederate States of America Army. From the description of Henry R. Jackson officer roster, 1861. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 38478296 Henry Rootes Jackson, son of Henry and Martha Jacqueline Jackson, was born in Athens, Georgia on June 24, 1820. He received his education from Yale University and the University of Georgia. During his life, Jackson held many prominent positions. These included, United States District Attorn...

Capt. H. V. Feugas

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Seymour H. Ransom

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Beall, William Nelson Rector, 1825-1883.

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Offutt, H. St. George.

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St. G. A. T. Grossclose.

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Wharton, Gabriel Colvin, 1824-1906

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Gabriel Colvin Wharton, was born July 23, 1824, in Culpeper, Virginia. He enrolled at VMI on September 1, 1845; graduated on July 5, 1847, with a standing of 2nd in a class of 12 (distinguished graduate). He married Anne Rebecca (Nannie) Radford in 1863, and they had one son, William. Prior to the Civil War he was a Civil Engineer in west (Arizona and elsewhere). During the War he was a Colonel in the 51st Virginia Infantry Regiment; and served in Floyd's western Virginia campaign. He was appoin...

Alexander, G. W.

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Blanton

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Hill, A. P. (A. Powell)

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Confederate general. From the description of Civil War letter, 1863 June 10. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 70973315 Confederate army general. From the description of Letter, 1856-1862. (Duke University Library). WorldCat record id: 38196552 ...

Browne, William M. (William Montague), 1823-1883

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William Montague Browne (1823-1883), Brigadier-General on the staff of President Jefferson Davis of the Confederate States of America, later moved to Athens (Ga.) and became professor of history and political economy at the University of Georgia. From the description of William Montague Browne papers, 1864-1880. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 38477258 William M. Browne was a newspaper editor and served as a Confederate Brigadier General during the Civil War. From...

Maury, Dabney Herndon, 1822-1900

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Author and Confederate Army officer. From the description of Letters of Dabney Herndon Maury, 1862-1863. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 71009539 Dabney Herndon Maury was a Major General in the Confederate States Army and commanded the District of the Gulf. From the description of Dabney Herndon Maury letter, 1865 June 1. (Louisiana State University). WorldCat record id: 244205268 Confederate general and organizer of the Southern Historical Society. ...

McKissick, Isaac G.

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Ross, Lawrence Sullivan, 1838-1898

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Soldier, governor, and university president Lawrence Sullivan (Sul) Ross (1838-1898) was born in the Iowa Territory and immigrated to Texas in 1839. After earning his A.B. from Wesleyan University in Florence, Alabama in 1859, Ross joined the Texas Rangers, initially as a lieutenant and later as a captain. Ross' fame in Texas greatly increased when, during the battle of the Pease River, his company rescued Cynthia Ann Parker. In 1861, he married Elizabeth Dorothy Tinsley, and prompt...

Tracy, Edward Dorr, 1833-1863.

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Edward Dorr Tracy of Huntsville, Ala., was a Brigadier General in the Army of the Confederate States of America. From the guide to the Edward Dorr Tracy Letters, ., 1861-1863, (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Southern Historical Collection.) ...

Garnett, Robert S. (Robert Selden), 1819-1861

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Robert Selden Garnett (1819-1861), served in the Mexican War, in Texas, and as commandant of cadets at West Point. In 1855, he was commissioned Major and sent to the Northwest where he commanded the Puget Sound and Yakima Expeditions. He resigned and joined the Confederate Army. From the description of Letter : to Major Gilmore Hays / by Robert Selden Garnett, 1856 Apr 13. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 702127583 Robert Selden Garnett (1819-1861), aide-de-camp to General Tay...

Higgins, Edward, 1821-1875.

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Bradley, General

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Maj. H. S. Bradford

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Clingman, T. L. (Thomas Lanier), 1812-1897

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T. L. (Thomas Lanier) Clingman (1812-1897) was a businessman; mountain explorer; legislator for North Carolina and the United States; and Confederate colonel and brigadier general, serving in the eastern North Carolina and South Carolina defenses and in Virginia. Clingman was born in Huntsville, Surry (now Yadkin) County, N.C. He was educated at the University of North Carolina, graduating in 1832 after which he read law. In 1835 he was elected from Surry County to the lower house of the North C...

Kennedy, Daniel

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Lt. Col. G. G. Gaines

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Frazer, John Wesley, 1827-1906

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Col. I. G. Martin

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Bledsoe, Albert Taylor, 1809-1877

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Albert Taylor Bledsoe (1809-1877), a Confederate official, editor, and author, was the first-born son of Moses Ousley and Sophia Childress Taylor. A fellow student of Jefferson Davis and Robert E. Lee at West Point Military Academy in 1830, Bledsoe performed military duty at western Indian forts. After graduating from Kenyon College in Ohio, he taught mathematics and French at Kenyon and later Miami University. He praticed law for ten years in Springfield, Illinois from 1838-48 but returned to t...

Barnard Elliott Bee.

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Smith, Norman W.

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Jackson, Alfred Eugene, 1807-1889

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Martin, Theodore P.

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Butler, M. Calvin.

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Cosby, George Blake, 1830-1909.

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Mary S. Nelson

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Tochman, Gaspard.

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St. Col. Mac Gill?

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Corse, Montgomery Dent, 1816-1895.

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Confederate Civil War brigadier general. From the description of Papers : of Montgomery Dent Corse, 1846-1982. (Alexandria Library). WorldCat record id: 29916998 Confederate general and banker. From the description of Autograph : [n.p., n.d.]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270533932 ...

Hill, Ambrose Powell, 1785-1858

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Bridgford, D. B.

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Dr. Stout

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Hoke, Robert Frederick, 1837-1912.

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Confederate general. From the description of Autograph Special Order Number 3 : Riverton, 1864 Mar. 19. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270478748 ...

Confederate States Army - Dan's Brigade.

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Pike, Albert, 1809-1891

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General Albert Pike (1809-1891), grand commander of the Supreme Grand Council, Southern Jurisdiction, of the Scottish Rite, 1859-1891. From the description of Letter to Bro. Hayden /by Albert Pike, 1885 Feb 14. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 702128274 After his work as commissioner to the Indian tribes west of the Arkansas, Pike was commissioned a brigadier general in the Confederate Army in November, 1861. He recruited Native American troops on the promise that they would o...

Reynolds, Alexander Welch, 1817-1876

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Army officer. From the description of To Mrs. Hardee: manuscript poem, 1864. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 79449511 ...

Gen. Snead

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William Edmonson Jones

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Robert Grame

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Garnett, Richard Brooke, 1817-1863.

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Lomax, L. Q. C.

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Hanson, J. W.

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Maj. E. S. Bruford

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Smith, Albert W.

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Smith, Gustavus Woodson, 1822-1896

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Gustavus Woodson Smith (1822-1896), civil and military engineer and Confederate Major General, born in Kentucky. From the description of Gustavus Woodson Smith papers, 1858-1863. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 38478117 Army officer and engineer. Appointed major-general in the provisional Confederate Army in September 1861 and held various commands off and on until the end of the war, including several days as acting secretary of war. From the description of State...

Pickett, George E. (George Edward), 1825-1875

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Pickett (1825-1875), eventually a Confederate Brig. Gen., was from Va. He was a lawyer, West Pointe graduate (1846), and Mexican War veteran. He is most remembered for Pickett's charge. He surrended at Appomattox. Pillow, a Confederate Gen. from Tenn., was a lawyer and Mexican War veteran. Twice wounded he was appointed senior Maj. Gen. of Tenn. When those troops transferred to the CSA, he was apointed Brig. Gen. of CSA in 1861. He fought at Belmont (Nov. 7, 1861) and was suspended and reprimand...

Neel, T. J.

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Davis, George, 1820-1896

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Wheaton, John F.

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Pierce Gustave Toutant Beauregard

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Hardee, William Joseph, 1815-1873

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Confederate brigadier general, from Selma (Dallas Co.), Ala. From the description of Papers, 1863-1871. (Duke University Library). WorldCat record id: 19657442 Confederate general. From the description of Official report of the battle of Perryville, 1862 Dec. 1. (Filson Historical Society, The). WorldCat record id: 49253061 Confederate lieutenant general; served in Mexican War; commanded cadets, West Point, 1856-1861; author of book of military tactics. ...

Daniel, Junius, 1828-1864.

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Harris, George C., 1951-

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Col. Shelby

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Hodge, George B. (George Baird), 1828-1892

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Mann, A. Dudley (Ambrose Dudley), 1801-1889

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Diplomat, public official, and C.S.A. public official. From the description of Letter of A. Dudley Mann, 1852. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 79454300 Ambrose Dudley Mann was a United States diplomat prior to the Civil War, he also served as the first U. S. Assistant Secretary of State. At the onset of the War he sided with the Confederacy, and was appointed by President Jefferson Davis as a diplomat to Europe. From the description of Ambrose Dudley Mann letters,...

Col. Farral

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Terrill, James Barbour, 1838-1864

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Crowly, R. A.

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Maj. Hayden

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Roberts, William Paul, 1841-1910

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Smith, William, 1797-1887

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Virginia governor. From the description of Letter : Warrenton, Va., 1856 October 11. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 29734105 From the description of Letter [manuscript] : Warrenton, Va., 1856 October 11. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 647835143 From the description of Letter [manuscript], 1860 October 10, Richmond to A.R. Blakey [Madison Court House]. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 647823159 Governor of Virginia....

Wise, Henry A. (Henry Alexander), 1806-1876

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American lawyer and politician; governor of Virginia. From the description of Autograph letter signed : Richmond, to President Buchanan, 1857 Mar. 20. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270588282 From the description of Autograph letter signed : Washington, to Thomas Teackle in Baltimore, 1841 Jan. 9. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270588600 From the description of Autograph letter signed : Richmond, to Col. T.H. Ellis, 1859 Aug. 1. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270588...

Samuel A. Christie

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Bragg, Braxton, 1817-1876

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Confederate Army officer, planter, and engineer. From the description of Braxton Bragg papers, 1833-1879 [microform]. (Rhinelander District Library). WorldCat record id: 44880220 Confederate General. From the description of Autograph letter signed : Mobile, to H. Storm, 1873 Oct. 9. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270133497 Army officer. From the description of Braxton Bragg papers, 1861-1863. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 79455179 G...

Johnston, Joseph E. (Joseph Eggleston), 1807-1891

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Confederate general. From the description of Letter (copy), 1861 Sept. 11 : Manassas, Va., to G.T. Beauregard. (Rosenbach Museum & Library). WorldCat record id: 122489351 From the description of Autograph letter signed : Selma [Alabama], to Colonel Blanton Duncan, 1867 Jan. 2. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270489683 From the description of Letter, October 9, 1861. (Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library). WorldCat record id: 443082432 Benjamin Stoddert E...

Brackenbrough

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Field, Charles William, 1828-1892

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Army officer; served in U.S. Army 1849-1861; resigned to enter Confederate Army and rose to major general; officer in Egyptian Army, 1875-1877. Doorkeeper, U.S. House of Representatives, 1878; civil engineer, 1881-1885; superintendent Hot Springs (Ark.) Indian Reservation, 1887-1889. From the description of ALS, 1874 Jan. 20, Atlanta, to Charles Colcock Jones, New York, N.Y. (Rosenbach Museum & Library). WorldCat record id: 86138900 Army officer; served in U.S. Army, 184...

Capt. John M. Otey

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William Mansfield

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Lubbock, Francis Richard, 1815-1905

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Francis Richard Lubbock (1815-1905) was an influential Texas businessman and politician, who held many public offices during his life, including a term as governor of Texas (161-1863). Born in South Carolina on October 16, 1815, Lubbock moved to Texas in 1836. Beginning in 1837, he ran a general store in Houston, before beginning ranching operations in the 1840s. Lubbock was a staunch Democrat and became active in politics in 1832 during the nullification crisis in South Carolina. In Texas, he c...

Stewart, Alexander Peter, 1821-1908

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Alexander Peter Stewart (1821-1908), Confederate General, commanded the Army of Tennessee in 1864. From the description of Letter to Colonel Andrew J. Kellar, 1864 May 31. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 38476231 Major general (from Tenn. and Ky.) in the Confederate army. From the description of Papers, 1862-1863. (Duke University Library). WorldCat record id: 38247278 ...

Col. Orr

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Maj. Griswold

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Capt. Chism

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Gardner, Franklin, 1823-1873.

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Link, William A.

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Little is known of the Link famiy. From the description of William and Anna Link papers 1911-1915. (Historical Society of W Pennsylvania). WorldCat record id: 54978614 ...

Young, Pierce Manning Butler, 1836-1896

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Confederate Army officer; member of the U.S. Congress, 1868-1875; from Spartanburg (Spartanburg Co.), S.C. From the description of Papers, 1851-1894. (Duke University Library). WorldCat record id: 20505098 ...

Hogan, J. B.

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Marks, H. B.

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Hammond, James Henry, 1807-1864

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James Henry Hammond (1807-1864) was a lawyer and planter, and an early advocate of nullification and secession. He was Democratic governor of South Carolina for the period 1842 to 1844, and was a U.S. Senator, for the period 1857 to 1860. As a senator he began to doubt the wisdom of secession. From the description of Papers, 1823-1875. (American Antiquarian Society). WorldCat record id: 191259405 James henry Hammond (1807-1864) was a South Carolina planter who served in the ...

Moore, A. B. (Andrew Barry), 1807-1873

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Born in Spartanburg District, South Carolina, Andrew B. Moore (1807-1873) was a lawyer and the Governor of Alabama from 1857 until the outbreak of the Civil War. On December 24, 1860, Moore issued writs of election, leading to the Secession Convention of 1861. During the war, he was appointed a special aide-de-camp under General Albert Sidney Johnston. A contemporary of Moore, John Willis Ellis (1820-1861) was a lawyer, judge, and the Governor of North Carolina from 1859...

Hallonquist, James H.

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Rhett, T. S.

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Ewell, Richard Stoddert, 1817-1872

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Lieutenant-general, Confederate Army, during Civil War. From the description of Letter : Richmond, Va., to Hugh [W.] Sheffey, 1865 March 14. (Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library). WorldCat record id: 30366216 U.S. and Confederate Army officer. From the description of Richard Stoddert Ewell papers, 1838-1896. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 71063194 Benjamin Stoddert Ewell was born in Georgetown, D. C., 10 June 1810, the son of Thomas Ewell and Elizabeth ...

Phifer, Charles W., General

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Capt. Allen J. Green

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Cox, William R. (William Ruffin), 1831-1919

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William Ruffin Cox was a planter of Edgecombe County, N.C.; Confederate brigadier general; superior court judge; United States congressman from North Carolina, 1881-1887; and secretary of the United States Senate, 1893-1900. From the guide to the William R. Cox Papers, ., 1860-1921, (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Southern Historical Collection.) William Ruffin Cox was a planter of Edgecombe County, N.C.; Confederate brigadier general; superior court j...

O'Neal, Edward Asbury, 1818-1890

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Lawyer, Confederate Army officer, and governor of Alabama from 1882 to 1886. From the description of Edward Asbury O'Neal papers, 1833-1908 [manuscript]. WorldCat record id: 25031595 Edward Asbury O'Neal (1818-1890) was a lawyer, local secession leader, Confederate Army officer serving in Alabama, Virginia, Pennsylvania, and Georgia, a member of the Constitutional Convention of 1875, and governor of Alabama from 1882 to 1886. From the guide to the Edward Asbury O...

Thompson, Meriwether Jeff, 1826-1876

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Confederate veteran and Chief State Engineer of Louisiana. From the description of M. Jeff Thompson letter, 1875 Sept. 6. (Louisiana State University). WorldCat record id: 269015946 Meriwether Jeff Thompson, Confederate officer and mayor of Saint Joseph, Mo. From the guide to the Meriwether Jeff Thompson Papers, 1860-1940, (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Southern Historical Collection.) M. Jeff Thompson, son of Meriwether and Marth...

Kemper, James Lawson, 1823-1895

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C.S.A. general; Virginia governor, 1874-1878. From the description of Letter to Dr. A. G. Grinnan, 1856 June 4. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 52960481 James Lawson Kemper (1823-1895) was a Virginia legislator, Confederate soldier and governor of Virginia (1874-1878). From the description of Papers, 1800-1894 (bulk 1841-1888). (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 86172341 Kemper was an alumnus of Washington College (Class of 1842) and a Madison ...

Bootwright, Thomas F.

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Rams, James E.

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Joseph Wheeler.

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Flash, Henry Lyden, 1835-

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Martin, John D., 1945-

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Brown, John C. (John Calvin), 1827-1889

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Ould, Robert.

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Adams, William Wirt, 1825-1864?

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Harris, Isham G. (Isham Green), 1818-1897

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Governor of Tennessee, United States senator. From the description of Autograph letter signed : Washington, to President Hayes, 1877 Oct. 17. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270506120 Isham Green Harris (1818-1897) was a state legislator and governor of Tennessee. During the Civil War, he was a voluntary member of the staffs of A. S. Johnston, Braxton Bragg, and J. E. Johnston. From the guide to the Isham G. Harris Letter, ., 22 August 1863, (University of North C...

Bullock, Rufus B. (Rufus Brown), 1834-1907

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Rufus Brown Bullock was born in Bethlehem, Albany Co., N. Y. He supervised building of telegraph line between N.Y. and the South and in 1859 was employed by the Adams Express Company (later Southern Express Company), and moved to Augusta, Ga. During the Civil War, he remained in Georgia, becoming a telegraph expert for the Confederacy. After the war he returned to Augusta and resumed his duties at Southern Express company and was also president of the Macon & Augusta Railroad. In 1868 he was...

Tyler, Robert, 1816-1877

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Marmaduke, John Sappington, 1833-1887

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Churchill, T. J. (Thomas J.), 1824-1905

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Rains, Gabriel James, 1803-1881

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U.S. Army officer and Confederate general. A native of Craven County, N.C., Rains was wounded in the Seminole War in Florida in 1838 and fought there again during the Seminole War of 1849-1850. During the Civil War he was assigned to the mining defenses of Yorktown and Williamsburg, Va. He also formulated a plan of torpedo protection for Southern harbors and invented the explosive subterra shell. In 1876 Rains moved to Charleston, S.C., where he served for several years as a clerk in the Quarter...

Donelson, J. S.

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Maj. Kinloch Falciner

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Frost, Daniel Marsh, 1823-1900.

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Allison, Robert D.

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Robert C. Allison was a United States (U.S.) military officer. He served in the U.S. Army Air Forces (USAAF) and the U.S. Air Force (USAF). From the description of Robert C. Allison photograph collection. 1943-1955. (US Army, Mil Hist Institute). WorldCat record id: 50822012 ...

St. P. F. Fisher

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Ingraham, Duncan N. (Duncan Nathaniel), 1802-1891

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South Carolina naval officer born in Charleston, S.C. Duncan Nathaniel Ingraham resigned from the U.S. Navy to support the Confederacy, and was given charge of naval forces on the coast of South Carolina. The Navy of the Confederate States of America was formally created in late February 1861. From the description of Letter : Charleston, S.C., to F.W. Pickens, 1861 Feb. 13. (The South Carolina Historical Society). WorldCat record id: 32144156 Naval officer in both the U.S. a...

McCown, John Porter, 1815-1829

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Thompson, John R., 1901-

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Magruder, John Bankhead, 1807-1871

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James Barron Hope was born 23 March 1829 in Norfolk, Virginia. He was the grandson of Commodore James Barron (1769-1851) and son of Wilton Hope and Jane Armistead (Barron) Hope (1791-1862). James Barron Hope graduated from the College of William and Mary. He practiced law and was the commonwealth's attorney for Norfolk. He married Annie Beverley Whiting (1825-1920) in 1857. The couple had two daughters, Jane ("Janey" or "Jennie") Barron Hope (b. 1859?) and Ann ("Nanny") Hope. James Barron Hope i...

Barksdale, G. A.

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Taylor, Thomas Hart, 1825-1901

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Rosewell Sabine Ripley

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Wright, Allen E.

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Mahone, William, 1826-1895

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Confederate Army officer, railroad administrator, politician. From the description of Papers, 1853-1895; (bulk 1876-1892). (Duke University Library). WorldCat record id: 23371607 Politician and senator, leader in "Readjuster" movement to readjust state debt. From the description of Letter : Petersburg, to Merideth Watson, Nottoway County, 1880 April 30. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122539121 James Barron Hope was born 23 March 1829 in Norfolk, Virginia...

Alexander, Edward Porter, 1835-1910

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Edward P. Alexander was Chief of Artillery, 1st Corps of the Army of Northern Virginia, Confederate States Army. He was the author of several books on the Civil War and railroads, including THE WILDERNESS CAMPAIGN, MILITARY MEMOIRS OF A CONFEDERATE, THE CONFEDERATE VETERAN, FIGHTING FOR THE CONFEDERACY, SKETCH OF LONGSTREET'S DIVISION--YORKTOWN AND WILLIAMSBURG, and RAILWAY PRACTICE. From the description of E.P. Alexander circular letter, 1866. (Louisiana State University). WorldCat ...

Grayson, John Breckinridge, 1806-1861

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Whittle, William C.

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Forney, William Henry, 1823-1894

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William Henry Forney of Alabama was a brigadier general in the Army of the Confederate States of America. From the guide to the William Henry Forney Papers, ., 1865-1894, (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Southern Historical Collection.) ...

Barton, Seth Maxwell, 1829-1900

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Confederate general. From the description of Orders, 1862. (Duke University Library). WorldCat record id: 20574472 Brigadier general for the Confederate Army. From the description of Letter, 1862 Oct. 27. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 70970315 ...

McCulloch, Ben, 1811-1862

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Ben and Henry Eustace McCulloch both served as Texas Rangers, Texas legislators, United States marshals, and as brigadier generals in the Confederate Army. From the description of McCulloch, Ben and Henry Eustace, family papers, 1798-1961. (University of Texas Libraries). WorldCat record id: 39540808 ...

Parsons, M. M.

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Confederate general. From the description of Papers, 1861-1862. (Duke University Library). WorldCat record id: 20077690 ...

Pettus, John G.

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Lee, Edwin Gray, 1836-1870

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Grant, S.

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Blount, Robert P.

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Russell, Alfred A.

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Terrill, William Henry, 1800-1877

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Allen, William Wirt, 1835-1894

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McCausland, John, 1836-1927

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Tappan, James Camp, 1825-1906

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Tucker, A. L.

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Lewis, W. G. (William Gaston), 1835-1901

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Anderson, George Thomas, 1824-1901.

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Semple, ...

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Deshler, James, 1833-1863

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Huger, Benjamin, 1805-1877

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Charleston, S.C. plantation owner, U.S. Army officer, and Confederate general. From the description of Letter : Fort Monroe, to "My dear Major," 1846 May 29. (The South Carolina Historical Society). WorldCat record id: 36866120 Confederate general. From the description of Autograph notes, 1848 Nov. 17 [on opposite page]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 269546738 From the description of Autograph letter signed : Fortress Monroe, [18]48 Nov. 28. (Unknown). ...

Preston, William, 1816-1887

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Lawyer, soldier, Kentucky Whig legislator and congressman; U.S. Minister to Spain, 1858-1860; Confederate general; and Confederate Minister to Mexico. From the description of Letter, 12 Nov. 1858. (Filson Historical Society, The). WorldCat record id: 49299916 U.S. representative from Kentucky. From the description of Autograph : Washington, 1852 Dec. 16. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270618973 U.S. representative of Kentucky, C.S.A. diplomat, and army o...

Pettigrew, James Johnston, 1828-1863

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Attorney in Charleston (Charleston Co.), S.C. From the description of Letter, n.d. (Duke University Library). WorldCat record id: 43297787 ...

Maney, George Earl, 1826-1901

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George Earl Maney (1826-1901) was a Confederate brigadier general and United States minister to various South American countries, including Ecuador, Colombia, Bolivia, Uruguay, and Paraguay, 1881-1894. From the guide to the George Earl Maney Papers, 1863-1932, (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Southern Historical Collection.) George Earl Maney (1826-1901) was a Confederate brigadier general and United States minister to various South American countries, ...

Cheatham, Benjamin Franklin, 1820-1886

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Benjamin Franklin Cheatham (1820-1886) was born in Nashville, Tenn. He served in the U.S. Army as captain and colonel in the Mexican War, later going to California, 1849-1853, and returning to Tennessee to serve as major general in the state militia during the 1850s. Cheatham became a major-general in the Confederate Army in 1862 and served under Polk, Hardee, and Hood. From the description of Benjamin Franklin Cheatham papers, 1834-1893 [manuscript]. WorldCat record id: 27190212 ...

Cobb, Thomas Read Rootes, 1823-1862

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Thomas Read Rootes Cobb (1823-1862) was a lawyer of Georgia and later a Confederate brigadier general. He was killed at the Battle of Fredericksburg, Va. From the guide to the Thomas Read Rootes Cobb Letters, ., 1855-1862, (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Southern Historical Collection.) Thomas Reade Rootes Cobb (1823-1862), lawyer and Brigadier General, born at Cherry Hill plantation in Jefferson County, Georgia. During the Civil War, he commanded Cobb...

McRae, Colin J. (Colin John), 1812-1877

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Colbert, Wallace Bruce.

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Maclay, Robert P.

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Capt. Roy Mason Hove

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George Birdseye McPherson

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Lowrey, Mark Perrin, 1828-1885

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Born in McNairy County, Tennessee; resident of the Corinth, Mississippi, area at the time of the Civil War; Colonel of the 32nd Mississippi Infantry; Baptist minister; founder of the Blue Mountain Female Institute. From the description of Autobiographical essay, 1867 September 30. (University of Southern Mississippi, Regional Campus). WorldCat record id: 16844602 ...

Whitfield, John W. (John Wilkins), approximately 1826-1879

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Smith, J. Tipton.

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W. S. Winder

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Harllee, William W.

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Vance, Zebulon Baird, 1830-1894

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Confederate general; governor of North Carolina, and U.S. senator. From the description of Autograph letter signed : [Washington], to William F. Vilas, 1888 May 1. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270574072 Confederate Army officer, governor of North Carolina, and U.S. senator from North Carolina. From the description of Papers, 1857-1893. (Duke University Library). WorldCat record id: 20460648 Zebulon Baird Vance, a native of Buncombe County, N.C., was go...

Harrison, Richard, active 17th century

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Epithet: of Balls British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000218.0x000043 Epithet: of Add MS 35284 British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000218.0x000042 Epithet: of Add MS 34416 British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000218.0x000041 ...

York, Zebulon, 1819-1900

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Weisiger, David Addison, 1818-1899.

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Vaughn, John Crawford, 1824-1875

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Lee, Stephen D. (Stephen Dill), 1833-1908

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Planter, U.S. and Confederate army officer. From the description of ALS : Columbus, Miss., to Charles Colcock Jones, 1883 Dec. 23. (Rosenbach Museum & Library). WorldCat record id: 122442865 From the description of ALS : Columbus, Miss., to Charles Colcock Jones, 1883 Nov. 15. (Rosenbach Museum & Library). WorldCat record id: 86156169 Lieutenant General, C.S.A.; President, Mississippi Agricultural and Mechanical College; and Mississippi state legislator; nat...

Walker, William Henry Talbot, 1816-1864

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Confederate and U.S. Army officer, from Augusta (Richmond Co.), Ga. From the description of Correspondence, 1846-1883. (Duke University Library). WorldCat record id: 20273459 ...

Maury, Dabney Herndon, 1822-1900

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Author and Confederate Army officer. From the description of Letters of Dabney Herndon Maury, 1862-1863. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 71009539 Dabney Herndon Maury was a Major General in the Confederate States Army and commanded the District of the Gulf. From the description of Dabney Herndon Maury letter, 1865 June 1. (Louisiana State University). WorldCat record id: 244205268 Confederate general and organizer of the Southern Historical Society. ...

Dangan, E. Keith.

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Dimmock, Charles.

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Maccabbin, Samuel.

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Col. Charles H. May

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Gatlin, R. C. (Richard Caswell), 1809-1896

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Gatlin, native of North Carolina, was an officer of the U.S. Army, 1828-1861, and then Confederate brigadier general. From the description of R. C. Gatlin papers, 1744-1967 [manuscript]. WorldCat record id: 25224843 R. C. (Richard Caswell) Gatlin (1809-1896), native of North Carolina, was an officer of the United States Army, 1828-1861, and then Confederate brigadier general. Gatlin was born in Lenoir County, N.C. He was the third of five children of John Gatlin...

Lt. Hudson

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Roane, J. S. (John Selden), 1817-1867

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Brantly, W. F.

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Stovall, Marcellus Augustus, 1818-1895

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Marcellus Augustus Stovall, 1818-1895, was born in Sparta, Georgia and attended school in Massachusetts. In 1835 he joined the Republican Blues of Augusta for service in the Seminole War. He received an appointment to the United States Military Academy but dropped out after one year because of poor health. After a tour of Europe, Stovall settled near Rome, Georgia and was the Captain of the Cherokee Artillery in 1861. At the start of the Civil War, he was appointed Colonel of Artillery in the Ge...

Cleburne, Patrick Ronayne, 1828-1864

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Confederate general. From the description of Papers, 1864. (Duke University Library). WorldCat record id: 32452526 ...

McCray, Thomas H.

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Col. L. A. Maclean

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Capt. Butler

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Harrison, Burton Norvell, 1838-1904

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Family members represented include Burton Norvell Harrison, lawyer and private secretary to Jefferson Davis; Samuel Jordan Harrison, merchant; J. B. Harrison, lawyer and newspaper editor; Mrs. Burton Harrison, author; Fairfax Harrison, lawyer and president of the Southern Railway; and Francis B. Harrison, lawyer, U.S. representative from New York, and governor general of the Philippines. From the description of Burton Norvell Harrison family papers, 1812-1926 (bulk 1913-1921). (Unkno...

James Chesnut

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Letcher, John, 1813-1884

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Governor of Virginia. From the description of Autograph letter signed : Richmond, Va., to President Buchanan, 1860 June 13. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270591184 From the description of Autograph letter signed : Lexington, Va., to Hamilton Fish, Secretary of State, 1813-1884. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270590807 Native of Virginia; graduate of Washington College; lawyer, newspaper editor, presidential elector in 1848, and member of Virginia's constitutional c...

Field, Charles William, 1828-1892

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Army officer; served in U.S. Army 1849-1861; resigned to enter Confederate Army and rose to major general; officer in Egyptian Army, 1875-1877. Doorkeeper, U.S. House of Representatives, 1878; civil engineer, 1881-1885; superintendent Hot Springs (Ark.) Indian Reservation, 1887-1889. From the description of ALS, 1874 Jan. 20, Atlanta, to Charles Colcock Jones, New York, N.Y. (Rosenbach Museum & Library). WorldCat record id: 86138900 Army officer; served in U.S. Army, 184...

Col. Vincent

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Harris, Nathaniel Harrison, 1834-1900.

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Nathaniel Harrison Harris (1834-1900) was born in Natchez, Miss. Harris was captain of Company C of the 19th Mississippi Infantry Regiment, Confederate States of America. He became Brigadier General in 1864. From the description of Nathaniel Harrison Harris papers, 1865-1899 [manuscript]. WorldCat record id: 23805186 Nathaniel Harrison Harris (1834-1900) was born in Natchez, Miss., studied law at the University of Louisiana, and practiced law in Vicksburg, Miss. Harris was c...

Rodes, Robert Emmett, 1829-1864

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Confederate general; of Lynchburg, Va.; killed in battle in the Shenandoah Valley. From the description of Civil War letter of Gen. Robert E. Rodes, ca. 1862. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 71057253 ...

Bowles, Pinckney D.

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Col. L. B. Roy

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Greer, Elkhanah Brackin, 1825-1877

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Lt. Col. Larkin Smith

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J. B. Temple

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Clark, John B.

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E. R. Perkins

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Faulkner, Charles James, 1806-1884

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Diplomat, Confederate officer, and U.S. Representative from Berkeley County, Va. (later W. Va.). From the description of Papers, 1815-1883. (Duke University Library). WorldCat record id: 19536991 Representative from Virginia and West Virginia. From the description of Signature clipped from the register of Brown's Hotel : Washington, [n.d.]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270538814 From the description of Autograph letter signed : [Washington, D.C.], to t...

Brown, Joseph E. (Joseph Emerson), 1821-1894

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Joseph Emerson Brown (1821-1894), governor of Georgia and U.S. senator. From the description of Joseph E. Brown papers, 1858-1930 [manuscript]. WorldCat record id: 45894384 U.S. senator and governor of Georgia. From the description of Joseph E. Brown correspondence, 1862-1864. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 79451938 Governor of Georgia and U.S. Senator. From the description of letter signed : Atlanta, unaddressed, 1877 Apr. 7. (Unknown). Worl...

Sterling Price

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Waterhouse, Richard, 1832-1876

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Maj. J. King

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Earl Van Dorn

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Maj. W. E. Wailes

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Staples

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Loring, William Wing, 1818-1886

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Florida legislator and Confederate brigadier general. From the description of Papers, 1861-1862. (Duke University Library). WorldCat record id: 19903019 Born in Wilmington, North Carolina, on December 4, 1818. Member of the Florida legislature. Member of the Mount Rifles, 1846-1848. Colonel in U. S. Army 1856-1861. Resigned from U. S. Army in 1861. Commanded First Division Department of Norfolk, Confederate States of America, 1862, and the Department of Southwestern Virginia...

Barrows, D. N.

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Maj. C. Pickett

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Col. Josiah Gorgas

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Williams, John S. (John Stuart), 1818-1898

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Kentucky lawyer, soldier, state legislator, and U.S. senator. From the description of Letters, 1884-1887. (Filson Historical Society, The). WorldCat record id: 49479315 ...

Murphy, Isaac, 1802-1882

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Executive Council of South Carolina

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Mackall, William Whann, 1818-1891

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William Whann Mackall was born in Washington, D.C., on January 17, 1817. He graduated from West Point in 1837 and served with the U.S. Army in the Seminole and Mexican-American Wars. He was made Assistant Adjutant-General with the rank of Major in 1853, but resigned in 1861 and joined the Confederate Army. Mackall served with Simon Buckner and P.G.T. Beauregard and was promoted to Chief of Staff of the Army of Tennessee. After twice asking to be relieved of positions, Mackall was not given any f...

Chesnut, James, 1815-1885

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Camden, S.C. attorney, plantation owner, state legislator, and U.S. Senator. He held several military posts during the Civil War including a staff position in Richmond, Va. from 1862 to 1864. His wife was Mary Boykin Miller (1823-1886). From the description of James Chesnut papers, 1850-1900. (The South Carolina Historical Society). WorldCat record id: 36794015 Attorney, plantation owner, South Carolina Representative, South Carolina Senator, and U.S. Senator. A native of Ca...

Johnson, George W

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Maxey Graham

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Perry, Madison Starke, 1814-1865

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Governor, Plantation owner. Madison Perry was born in Prince William Parrish, S.C. in 1814. He came to Florida in the 1830s and became a leader among the area's plantation owners. As governor, Perry helped bring about the settlement of a long-standing boundary dispute with Georgia and encouraged the building of railways. During the years before the Civil War, Governor Perry foresaw the possibility that Florida might secede from the Union, and in 1858 urged the reestablis...

Leonidas Polk

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Elzey, Arnold, 1816-1871

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Green, Thomas, 1814?-1864

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French, S. Bassett.

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Allen, Henry Watkins, 1820-1866

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Henry Watkins Allen, a lawyer in Mississippi, married Salome Crane (d. 1851) in 1842. He was elected to the Mississippi State Legislature in 1845. He moved to Louisiana in 1852, worked as a planter on Allendale Plantation, and was elected to the Louisiana State Legislature in 1854. Allen served in the Civil War as a lieutenant-colonel in the Delta Rifles of the 4th Louisiana Regiment. Wounded at Shiloh and Baton Rouge in 1862, Allen left active duty and was elected Confederate Governor of Louisi...

Col. Robert C. Parks

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Reid, Peter C.

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Shelby, Joseph Orville, 1830-1897

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Col. Thomas McQuick?

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Memminger, C. G. (Christopher Gustavus), 1803-1888

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South Carolina legislator and Confederate Secretary of the Treasury; from Charleston, S.C. From the description of Papers, 1861-1878. (Duke University Library). WorldCat record id: 20030153 Lawyer and politician of Charleston, S.C.; member of: S.C. House, 1836-1852, 1855-1860, 1877; Secession convention, 1861; Board of Free School Commissioners of Charleston; drafter of Confederate constitution; Confederate Secretary of the Treasury, 1861-1864; President of the Etiwan Phospa...

Cocke, William M.

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Van Dorn, Earl, 1820-1863

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Major General Earl Van Dorn was a Confederate general, originally from Mississippi. He was born near Port Gibson (Miss.) on Sept. 17, 1820. After graduating from West Point (N. Y. ) in 1842, he began a long career in the army. He was recognized for gallant and meritorious service during the Mexican War in 1848. He also served in the Seminole Indian War and in the West. When he resigned his U.S. Army commission, he was a major in the famous 2nd Cavalry Regiment. He was commissioned a colonel of c...

Sanders, George Nicholas, 1812-1873

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Financier, lobbyist, and Confederate agent in Europe. From the description of Papers of George Nicholas Sanders, 1833-1904. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 81297780 From the description of Papers of George Nicholas Sanders, 1854-1863. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 71069304 ...

Kennedy, John Doby, 1840-1896.

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Lawyer, politician, and planter, of Camden, S.C.; colonel and temporary brigadier general, commander, Second South Carolina Regiment, and Kershaw's Brigade, Confederate States of America; S.C. legislator and U.S. Congressman; lieutenant governor of South Carolina, 1880- 1882; served as Grand Master of Masons in South Carolina from 1881 to 1883; appointed consul general for Shanghai, China, 1886-1889, by Pres. Grover Cleveland. From the description of John Doby Kennedy papers, 1868-18...

Thomas Stanley Bocock

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Colquitt, Alfred Holt, 1829-1894

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U.S. Congressman and Senator, Confederate major general, governor of Georgia, from Troup County, Ga. From the description of Papers, 1846?-1889. (Duke University Library). WorldCat record id: 19347877 Gov. of Georgia; U.S. Sen. From the description of Letter signed : Atlanta, Georgia, to Senator John B. Gordon, 1877 Mar. 17. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270537594 Alfred Holt Colquitt (1829-1894), lawyer, Confederate officer, U.S. Representative (1852-1...

Hoke, William J.

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Hobson, Amson W.

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Bowen, John Stevens, 1830-1863.

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Barringer, Rufus, 1821-1895

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Rufus Barringer (1821-1895). Legislator, member of the first Board of Trustees of North Carolina State University, and confederate army officer. Rufus Barringer graduated from the University of North Carolina (1842) and studied law. From the description of Rufus Barringer farm circular, no. 1, 1886 [manuscript]. (North Carolina State University). WorldCat record id: 466892536 North Carolina lawyer, politician, and Civil War brigadier general Rufus Barringer (1821-1895) was b...

Pickett, S.

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Huger, John M.

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Armand Toutant

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Lee, Fitzhugh, 1835-1905

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Fitzhugh Lee, grandson of Henry "Light-Horse Harry" and nephew of Robert E. Lee was Major General of the Confederate Army. After the war, he wrote about and taught the history of the South during the Civil War and wrote a biography of Robert E. Lee. In 1885-1889, he served as governor of Virginia. From the description of Papers of Fitzhugh Lee, 1863-1889 (bulk 1885-1889). (Huntington Library, Art Collections & Botanical Gardens). WorldCat record id: 122446276 Fitzhugh Le...

Devereux, John G., active 1856-1890

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Hardware merchant and banker of New Orleans and Confederate veteran. From the description of John G. Devereux papers, 1791-1890. WorldCat record id: 23289869 John G. Devereux (fl. 1856-1890) was a merchant and banker of New Orleans and a Confederate veteran. He may have been the son of John Devereux (fl. 1822), a Dublin merchant and shipper. Between at least 1856 and 1859, the younger Devereux operated a hardware business in New Orleans, supplying local planters...

Taylor, W. H. S.

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Gibbs, George, 1815-1873

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George Gibbs, a New York lawyer, joined the Regiment of Mounted Rifles in 1849, went to Fort Vancouver, Washington, and remained in the Pacific Northwest for the next eleven years. During that time he held a number of positions, including that of an ethnologist and geologist with the Northern Pacific segment of the U.S. Army railroad survey from 1853 to 1855, and the Northwest boundary survey of the Northwest Boundary Commission from 1857 to 1860. He wrote numerous works on Indian languages and ...

Kirby-Smith, Edmund, 1824-1893

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Edmund Kirby-Smith, son of General Edmund Kirby-Smith, was a citizen of the United States and an engineer by profession. From the guide to the Records of Land Transactions by Edmund Kirby-Smith and Virginia Téllez de Kirby-Smith in the Isla de Tacamichapa, Veracruz 32741540., 1884-1945, 1895-1925, (Benson Latin American Collection, General Libraries, The University of Texas at Austin) Confederate general, university chancellor, and mathematics professor from St. Augustine (S...

William L. Snead

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Maj. Breutup

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Lane, Walter P. (Walter Paye), 1817-1892

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Col. David Urquhart

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Harte, R. N.?

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Mouton, Alfred, 1829-1864

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Jean Jacques Alexandre Alfred Mouton was the son of Governor Alexander Mouton of Louisiana and his first wife, Zelia Rousseau. He was a colonel in the 18th Louisiana Infantry Regiment and a brigade commander under General Richard Taylor. He was killed at the Battle of Mansfield, April 8, 1864. From the description of Alfred Mouton photograph, circa 1861. (Louisiana State University). WorldCat record id: 319425918 ...

Lane, James Henry, 1833-1907

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James Henry Lane (1833-1907), a Virginian by birth and education, received his commission as brigadier general in the Army of Northern Virginia in 1862. After the war he taught at several institutions, most particularly the Alabama Polytechnic Institute from 1882-1907. From the description of Lane, James H. letter, 1898. (University of Georgia). WorldCat record id: 316802367 Lane, a professor at Virginia Military Institute in 1861, served as major of the 1st North Carolina I...

Baylor, John Robert, 1822-1894

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Dunmore, Earl.

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Armstrong, Frank Crawford, 1835-1909.

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Dearborn, Frederick M. (Frederick Myers), 1876-

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Frederick Myers Dearborn (1876-1960), who formed this collection, was a dermatologist of New York City. From the description of Frederick M. Dearborn collection of military and political Americana : Part III: The Civil War and the Union, 1804-1915. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 84192475 From the description of Frederick M. Dearborn collection of military and political Americana : Part II: The Civil War and the Confederacy, 1832-1915. (Harvard University). WorldCa...

Featherston, Winfield Scott, 1819-1891

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Confederate general; Representative from Mississippi. From the description of Autograph letter signed : Jackson, Miss, unaddressed, [n.d.]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270521482 Born in Murfreesboro, Tennessee; fought in the war against the Creek Indians; studied law and began a legal career in 1840; United States Congressman from Mississippi 1847-1851; Mississippi legislator 1876-1878 and 1880-1882; brigadier general in Loring's Division during the Civil War; judge of th...

Anderson, Samuel Smith.

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Johnston, Albert Sidney, 1803-1862

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Native of Kentucky; educated privately and at Transylvania University; graduate of West Point; served in the Black Hawk War; commanded the Army of Texas during the late 1830's; served in the Mexican War with the 1st Texas Rifle Volunteers; commissioned paymaster in the United States Army and later commanded the Department of Texas; resigned to join the Confederate Army in 1861 and commanded the Western Department from 1861 through the Battle of Shiloh, April 1862, where he was mortally wounded. ...

H. Y. Purviance

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Moore, Patrick Theodore, 1821-1883

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Forrest, Nathan Bedford, 1821-1877

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Army officer. From the description of Nathan Bedford Forrest letter, 1867. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 79450304 Planter, slave dealer, and Confederate Army officer; resident of Memphis (Shelby Co.), Tenn. From the description of Papers, 1862-1866. (Duke University Library). WorldCat record id: 19562174 Confederate general; led cavalry forces during the battle of Fort Pillow, Tenn.; Confederate troops accused of slaughtering Union soldiers following th...

Longstreet, Augustus Baldwin, 1790-1870

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Augustus Baldwin Longstreet, lawyer, author, and college president, was born 22 September 1790, in Augusta, Georgia, and died 9 July 1870, in Oxford, Mississippi. His sketches of late eighteenth century Georgia life, GEORGIA SCENES, appeared in Georgia newspapers (1833-1836), but later writings were more political or religious. He was ordained a Methodist minister (1838) and became president of four Southern colleges: Emory College (1839-1848), Centenary College in Jackson, La. (1849), the Unive...

James Richardson

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Thomas, Bryan Morel, 1836-1905.

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Wofford, William, 1824-1884

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Brown, Joseph E. (Joseph Emerson), 1821-1894

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Joseph Emerson Brown (1821-1894), governor of Georgia and U.S. senator. From the description of Joseph E. Brown papers, 1858-1930 [manuscript]. WorldCat record id: 45894384 U.S. senator and governor of Georgia. From the description of Joseph E. Brown correspondence, 1862-1864. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 79451938 Governor of Georgia and U.S. Senator. From the description of letter signed : Atlanta, unaddressed, 1877 Apr. 7. (Unknown). Worl...

Stuart, Charles E. (Charles Edward), 1925-

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Slidell, John, 1793-1871

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American lawyer and politician. From the description of Autograph letter signed : Washington, to T.H. Herbert, Esq., 1856 12 15. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270664032 Slidell was a Louisiana lawyer and politician who served in the U.S. House of Representatives and Senate, and as Confederate agent to France whose capture sparked the Trent affair. From the description of Legal answer, 1800s. (Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library). WorldCat record id: 122558030 ...

Hunton, Eppa, 1822-1908

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Toon, Thomas Fentress, 1840-1902.

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Officer in Confederate Army. Resident of Columbus Co., N.C. From the description of Letter, 1862, Dec. 4 : Port Royal, Va., to Archibald Toon. (Duke University Library). WorldCat record id: 18663817 Officer in Confederate Army. Resident of Colmbus Co., N.C. From the description of Letter, 1862, Dec. 4 : Port Royal, Va., to Archibald Toon. (Duke University Library). WorldCat record id: 154270373 ...

Martin, William Thompson, 1823-1910.

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William Thompson Martin (1823-1910), Confederate soldier and railroad builder, was born in Glasgow, Kentucky, and moved to Vicksburg, Mississippi. In 1842, he moved to Natchez, Mississippi, and was admitted to the bar. He served as district attorney and married Margaret Dunlop Conner in 1854. Though a Unionist opposed to secession, he organized the Adams County cavalry troop in 1861 and was elected captain. He and his troop went to Richmond and he quickly advanced in the...

O. P. Faunin

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Seddon, James A. (James Alexander), 1815-1880

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Representative from Virginia; Confederate Secretary of War. From the description of Autograph letter in pencil signed : [n.p.], to R.J. Walker, [n.d.]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270633277 Confederate Secretary of War. From the description of Letter to Dr. [Lewis] [manuscript], 1853 November 9. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 647986794 From the description of Papers, 1862-1865. (Duke University Library). WorldCat record id: 20313944 ...

Maj. Maclean

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Morgan, John Hunt, 1825-1864

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Confederate cavalry raider and brigadier general of Kentucky. From the description of John Hunt Morgan papers, 1840-1870; 1890 [manuscript]. WorldCat record id: 25166317 John Hunt Morgan was a veteran of the Mexican War and known for his guerrilla activities for the Confederates during the Civil War. From the description of Broadside, 1868 April 15. (Filson Historical Society, The). WorldCat record id: 49348053 Confederate cavalry officer. Fr...

Perry, William Flank, 1823-1901

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Pickins, Francis Wilkinson, 1805-1869

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Edmund Winston Pettus

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Gracie, Archibald, 1832-1864

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Smith, Thomas Benton, 1838-1923

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Robert Hall Chilton

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Parker, Wm. W. McK. (William Wilder McKinley), 1894-

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Watie, Stand, 1806-1871

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Stand Watie, also known as Standhope, Oowatie, Degataga, and Isaac S. Watie, was a Cherokee Nation leader and brigadier general in the Confederate Army. He was born into the Cherokee Nation in Calhoun, Georgia, on December 12, 1806, and was educated at a Moravian mission school in Spring Place, Georgia. He briefly wrote for the Cherokee Phoenix, during which time he became involved in anti-Indian laws following the discovery of gold in Georgia in the 1830s. Watie was a signer of the Treaty of Ne...

Pemberton, John C. (John Clifford), 1814-1881

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Confederate army officer. From the description of Papers of John C. Pemberton, 1862-1937. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 79453948 Officer in the U.S. Army and later in the Confederate States of America Army. From the description of Letter, 1862. (Duke University Library). WorldCat record id: 39522011 Confederate general controversial for his surrender of Vicksburg, Miss., 4 July 1863; a veteran of the Seminole Wars, the Mexican War, and service on the fr...

Capt. Alb Ferrey

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Lloyd Tilghman

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Barry, William T. S. (William Taylor Sullivan), 1821-1868

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American politician and Confederate leader From the guide to the William Taylor Sullivan Barry letter, 1856, (The New York Public Library. Manuscripts and Archives Division.) ...

Brent, George William, 1821-1872

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Waul, Thomas Neville, 1813-1903

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Member of the first Confederate Congress and brigadier general in the Confederate Army. From the description of Papers, 1863-1895. (Duke University Library). WorldCat record id: 41395626 ...

Rains, George Washington, 1817-1898

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Army officer and educator. From the description of Letter of George Washington Rains, 1847. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 79449465 U.S. and Confederate army officer, educator, inventor, and author, of New York and Georgia. From the description of George Washington Rains papers, 1843-1949 (bulk 1843-1864) [manuscript]. WorldCat record id: 24561253 George Washington Rains was a United States and Confederate army officer, educator, inventor, and author, of...

Carrington, Isaac H.

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Wright, Marcus J. (Marcus Joseph), 1831-1922

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Wright, a Memphis, Tennessee lawyer, joined the Confederate army, and became a brigadier general in December 1862. After the war he collected material for the Official Records. From the description of Letter, July 7, 1864. (Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library). WorldCat record id: 477282755 Confederate general, author. From the description of Papers of Marcus Joseph Wright, 1872-1901. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 32958249 Marcus Joseph ...

Vance, Zebulon Baird, 1830-1894

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Confederate general; governor of North Carolina, and U.S. senator. From the description of Autograph letter signed : [Washington], to William F. Vilas, 1888 May 1. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270574072 Confederate Army officer, governor of North Carolina, and U.S. senator from North Carolina. From the description of Papers, 1857-1893. (Duke University Library). WorldCat record id: 20460648 Zebulon Baird Vance, a native of Buncombe County, N.C., was go...

Jackson, W. H.

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Miles, William Porcher, 1822-1899

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William Porcher Miles (1822-1899) was a South Carolina educator, mayor of Charleston, S.C. (1855-1857), United States Representative (1857-1860), member of the Confederate House of Representatives and chair of its Military Affairs Committee. After the Civil War, he was a planter in Virginia, then president of South Carolina College, then a planter again, this time in Louisiana. Miles married Betty Bierne (d. 1874), the daughter of Oliver Bierne, a wealthy Virginia and Louisiana planter, in 1863....

Campbell, Robert Malcolm

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Col. Alexander

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G. H. Stettson

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Moore, Thomas Overton, 1804-1876

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Thomas O. Moore, a sugar planter of Rapides Parish, Louisiana, owned Emfield, Lodi, and Mooreland Plantations. He was a member of the Police Jury of Rapides Parish, a member of the Louisiana House of Representatives, and a State Senator. He served as governor of Louisiana (1860-1864) and called the Secession Convention in 1861. Moore fled Louisiana after the Civil War, was pardoned by President Andrew Johnson in 1867, and returned to Louisiana to resume his activities as a sugar planter in Rapid...

Moore, John Creed, 1824-1910

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Wallace, W. S.

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Elisa Bragg

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Callahan, D.

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Barnes, J. I. Mason.

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Leopold Alexander

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Stuart, Jeb, 1833-1864

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James Ewell Brown (Jeb) Stuart, soldier, was born 6 February 1833, on "Laurel Hill" plantation, Patrick County, Virginia. He died 12 May 1864 and is buried in Richmond, Virginia. Stuart graduated from the U.S. Military Academy (1850); received his commission (1854); and transferred to the Cavalry (1855). He married Flora Cooke, a colonel's daughter, in 1855, and the couple had three children. Stuart became Robert E. Lee's aide (1859) and resigned from the U.S. Army to be commissioned a lieutenan...

Mosby, John Singleton, 1833-1916

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John Singleton Mosby (1833-1916) of Powhatan County, Va., was a lawyer and Confederate officer. Mosby was educated at the University of Virginia and worked as a lawyer in Washington County, Va., prior to the Civil War. In 1861, Mosby enlisted in the 1st Virginia Cavalry. He was eventually promoted to colonel and led the 43rd Battalion, 1st Virginia Cavalry. After the war Mosby returned to practicing law in Warrenton, Va., and San Francisco, Calif. He also served at the United States Consul in Ho...

Anderson, Richard Heron, 1821-1879

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Georgia resident; Confederate general. From the description of Manuscript, 1864. (Duke University Library). WorldCat record id: 31421784 ...

Johnson, Edward, 1816-1873

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Lt. J. H. Ewell

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Smith, Morgan Lewis, 1821-1874

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Joseph A. Magle

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Loughborough, James M. (James Moore), 1832-1876

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Capt. Walworth

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Forrest, French, 1796-1866

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French Forrest (1796-1866) was born in St. Marys County, Maryland. On June 9, 1811 he was appointed midshipman and thus began a long naval career. On March 30, 1844 he was commissioned captain in the U.S. Navy and held that rank until he cast his lot with Virginia in April, 1861. He assumed command of the Norfolk Navy yard and Station from April 1861-March 1862. From the description of Commission : Captain, Confederate Navy, issued by secretary of the Navy S. R. Mallory, 1861 June 11...

Sharp, B. W.

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Sneed, John L. T. (John Louis Taylor), 1820-1901

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Pettigrew, James Johnston, 1828-1863

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Attorney in Charleston (Charleston Co.), S.C. From the description of Letter, n.d. (Duke University Library). WorldCat record id: 43297787 ...

Capt. Roddy

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Mercer, Hugh W. (Hugh Weedon), 1808-1877

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Hugh Weedon Mercer, Confederate officer, merchant, and banker, was born on November 27, 1808 in Fredericksburg, Virginia, and died in Baden Baden, Germany on June 9, 1877. He graduated from West Point in 1828. He was commissioned a colonel with the Confederate Army when Georgia seceded; was appointed a brigadier general (1861) and commanded the post of Savannah for most of the war. He was a brigade commander under Hardee during the Atlanta Campaign (1864). From the description of Hug...

Hayes, Harry Thompson, 1820-1876

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Johnston, J. Stoddard (Josiah Stoddard), 1833-1913

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Josiah Stoddard Johnston, lawyer, journalist, and political figure was born in New Orleans, Louisiana, on Feb. 10, 1833. After the death of his parents, Johnston moved with his brothers to Kentucky to live with relatives. Upon receiving his law degree from Yale, he moved to Arkansas where he became a successful cotton farmer. He returned to Kentucky in 1859, settling in Scott County to farm. During the Civil War, Johnston became a distinguished officer in the Confederate Army. After the war, he ...

Brent, George William, 1821-1872

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Hagood, Johnson, 1829-1898

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Confederate army officer, governor, and public official of Georgia. From the description of Letter of Johnson Hagood, 1881. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 79450700 ...

Nelson, Allison, 1822-1862

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Clark, Henry T. (Henry Toole), 1917-2008

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Henry Toole Clark, Jr. (1917-), son of Henry Toole and Cornelia Josey Clark of Scotland Neck, N.C., received a B.A., UNC, 1937, and M.D., University of Rochester, 1944. Clark was director, Vanderbilt University Hospital, 1948-1950; administrator, Division of Health Affairs, UNC-CH, 1950-1966; director, Connecticut Regional Medical Program and medical school visiting professor, University of Connecticut and Yale University, 1966-1973; visiting professor community medicine, University of Connectic...

Matthews, James M. (James Muscoe), 1822-

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Devereux, John G., active 1856-1890

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Hardware merchant and banker of New Orleans and Confederate veteran. From the description of John G. Devereux papers, 1791-1890. WorldCat record id: 23289869 John G. Devereux (fl. 1856-1890) was a merchant and banker of New Orleans and a Confederate veteran. He may have been the son of John Devereux (fl. 1822), a Dublin merchant and shipper. Between at least 1856 and 1859, the younger Devereux operated a hardware business in New Orleans, supplying local planters...

James E. Tayler

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Conner, James, 1829-1883.

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A native of Charleston, S.C., James Conner was an attorney and a Confederate general. He served as U.S. District Attorney and S.C. Attorney General (1876), and became a member of the Confederate military court of the 2nd Corps in 1863. He was the son of Henry Workman Conner (1797-1861) and Julia Ann M. Courtney (1804-1881). He married Sallie Enders of Richmond, Va. From the description of James Conner papers, 1843-1899. (The South Carolina Historical Society). WorldCat record id: 367...

McMurry, S. A.

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McPherson, James Birdseye, 1828-1864

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McPherson was born in Clyde, Ohio. He attended Norwalk Academy in Norwalk, Ohio, and graduated from the United States Military Academy at West Point in 1853, first in his class, which included Philip H. Sheridan, John M. Schofield, and John Bell Hood; Hood would oppose him later in the Western Theater. McPherson was directly appointed to the Corps of Engineers with the rank of brevet second lieutenant. For a year after his graduation he was assistant instructor of practical engineering at the Mi...

Mason, James Murray, 1838-

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McNair, E.

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Gregg, John, 1828-1864

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W. H. Sanders

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Buchanan, Franklin, 1800-1874

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U.S. naval officer. From the description of Letters, 1845-1860. (Hagley Museum & Library). WorldCat record id: 123466564 Franklin Buchanan (1800-1874) of Maryland was a United States Navy officer and later admiral in the Confederate States Navy. From the guide to the Franklin Buchanan Books, ., 1829-1834 and 1862-1863, (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Southern Historical Collection.) Franklin Buchanan of Maryland was a U.S. Navy...

Harrison, James Edward, 1815-1875.

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Thomas, Jordan

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Fry, Birkett Davenport, 1822-1891,

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Baldwin, William Edwin, 1827-1864.

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A. I. Ford

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Roddey, Philip Dale, 1826-1897

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Munford, Thomas Taylor, 1831-1916

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Rhett, Robert Barnwell, 1800-1876

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Charleston, S.C. plantation owner, politician, ardent secessionist, and author. Robert Barnwell Rhett (1828-1905) was his son. From the description of Rhett family papers, 1825-1938. (The South Carolina Historical Society). WorldCat record id: 32141642 U.S. Senator from South Carolina and leader in the secession movement. From the description of Papers, 1838-1874. (Duke University Library). WorldCat record id: 20115801 Robert Barnwell Rhett (1800-1876) w...

Mallory, Stephen R. (Stephen Russell), 1813-1873

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Confederate secretary of the Navy. From the description of Autograph letter signed, 1862 Dec. 12. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 70976218 U.S. senator and Confederate secretary of the Navy, from Florida. From the description of Stephen R. Mallory papers, 1835-1873 [microfilm manuscript]. WorldCat record id: 24864421 United States senator and Confederate secretary of the Navy, from Florida. From the guide to the Stephen R. Mallory Papers, ., 1...

Mrs. James Phillip Simms

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Ransom, Matt W. (Matt Whitaker), 1826-1904

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Matthew Whitaker Ransom (1826-1904) was a lawyer, planter, state official, Confederate general, Redeemer, Democratic United States senator from North Carolina, and minister to Mexico. Born on 8 October 1826 in Warren County, N.C., to Robert and Priscilla Whitaker Ransom, Ransom was brother to General Robert Ransom and cousin to fellow Confederate officer Wharton J. Green. After graduating from the University of North Carolina in 1847, Ransom went on to serve as the North Carolina Attorney Genera...

Boteler, Alexander Robinson, 1815-1892

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Alexander R. Boteler (1815-1892) was Virginia political leader, congressman, and Civil War soldier. He graduated from Princeton College, Princeton, New Jersey. He was active in politics before the Civil War and much of his correspondence relates to the election of 1860 and the Constitutional Union Party. He was later a member of the U.S. Tariff Commission from 1882-1884. From the guide to the Alexander Robinson Boteler papers, Bulk, 1836-1889, 1707-1924, (David M. Rubenstein Rare Boo...

Harris, Isham G. (Isham Green), 1818-1897

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Governor of Tennessee, United States senator. From the description of Autograph letter signed : Washington, to President Hayes, 1877 Oct. 17. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270506120 Isham Green Harris (1818-1897) was a state legislator and governor of Tennessee. During the Civil War, he was a voluntary member of the staffs of A. S. Johnston, Braxton Bragg, and J. E. Johnston. From the guide to the Isham G. Harris Letter, ., 22 August 1863, (University of North C...

Jackson, John King, 1828-1899

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Rust, Albert, 1818-1870

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Lilley, Robert Doak, 1836-1886

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Reynolds, Arthur E.

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Edward, Johnson

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Capt. I. L. Fraser

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Phifer, Charles W.

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Hardin, John B.

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Wright, Augustus R., 1813-

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Harrison, Burton N.

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McLaws, Lafayette, 1821-1897

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Lafayette McLaws was born in Augusta, Georgia on January 15, 1821. He attended the University of Virginia in 1837, but before he completed his first year he was appointed a cadet at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point. He graduated from West Point in 1842. McLaws served in the U.S. Army on the Texas frontier and distinguished himself during the Mexican War (1846). When Georgia seceded from the Union he resigned his commission and was commissioned into the Confederate Army. He served with dis...

Col. Mumford

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Jenkins, Albert Gallatin, 1830-1864

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Hickey, James

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Epithet: Commissioner in Bankruptcy British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000568.0x000149 ...

Jones, David Milton, 1828-1865

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Daniel Ruggles

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Lee, Robert Edward, 1807-1870

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Robert Edward Lee (1807-1870) served as General of the Confederate Army in the U.S. Civil War and was president of Washington College in Lexington, Virginia from 1865 to 1870. Lee spent the first twenty-three years of his military career in the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. From 1837 to 1841 he was superintending engineer for the harbor of St. Louis and the upper Mississippi and Missouri rivers. Robert E. Lee was a United States Army officer, 1829-1861; commander of Virginia forces in the ...

Martin, J. G. (James Green), 1819-1878

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Hatton, Robert, 1826-1862

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Maj. D. W. Flowence

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Col. John B. Strange

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August, Thomas P.

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Reynolds, Thomas C. (Thomas Caute), 1821-1887

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Reynolds was a Missouri lieutenant governor and state legislator. From the description of Letter, October 10, 1861. (Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library). WorldCat record id: 436785674 Lawyer, diplomat, and governor and legislator of Missouri. From the description of Papers of Thomas C. Reynolds, 1862-1866. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 71066662 Attorney in Jefferson City, Missouri. From the description of Letter, 1861. (Duke University Lib...

Dobbins, Archibald J.

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Scott, Thomas Moore, 1829-1876

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Sanders, John Coldwell Calhoun, 1840-1864

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Holmes, Theophilus Hunter, 1804-1880.

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Confederate general. From the description of Letter signed : Little Rock, Arkansas, to the Commanding Officer, U.S. Forces, Helena, Arkansas, 1863 May 7. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 269553495 ...

Toombs, Robert Augustus, 1810-1885

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Robert Toombs (1810-1885), lawyer, U.S. Senator (1844-1861), Confederate General, married Julia Ann DuBois, resided in Wilkes County, Georgia. From the description of Robert Toombs papers, 1837-1880 (bulk 1850-1866). (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 38477000 Robert Toombs (1810-1885) lawyer, U.S. Senator (1844-1861), Confederate General, married Julia Ann DuBois, resided in Wilkes County, Georgia. From the description of Letters to Julia Ann DuBois Toombs, 1850-186...

John F. Lawson

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Garrett, Thomas M., 1924-

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Sale, John B.

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Cumming, William Henry

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Adams, Daniel Weissiger, 1820-1872

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Hamilton, Andrew Jackson, 1815-1875

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Andrew Jackson Hamilton (1815-1875), governor of Texas, was born in Huntsville, Alabama, on January 28, 1815. He moved to Texas in 1846 and practiced law in La Grange before moving to and settling in Austin. He married Mary Bowen, also of Alabama. Governor Peter H. Bell of Texas appointed Hamilton acting attorney general in 1849. From 1851 to 1853, Hamilton represented Travis County in the state House of Representatives. In 1859, Hamilton was voted into the United States House of Re...

Watts, T. H. (Thomas Hill), 1819-1892

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w60c50qx (person)

Northrup, Lucius Bellinger, 1811-1894.

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U.S. Army officer, physician, and C.S.A. official born in Charleston, South Carolina. From the description of Letter : to Gen. A.S. Johnston, Texas, ca. 1840. (The South Carolina Historical Society). WorldCat record id: 32144790 ...

Johnston, Robert Daniel, 1837-1919

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Iverson, Alfred, 1829-1911

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Col. Edward Manigault

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Lt. Col. G. M. Lorrel

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Massey, B. F.

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Beriah Magoffin

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Campbell, John Archibald, 1811-1889

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Lawyer and state legislator, Montgomery and Mobile, Alabama; associate judge, U.S. Supreme Court, 1853-1861; assistant secretary of war, Confederate Army, 1862-1865. From the description of Papers, 1865 Jan.-April. (Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library). WorldCat record id: 27989428 John Archibald Campbell (1811-1889), Justice U.S. Supreme Court (1853-1861). From the description of John Archibald Campbell papers, 1842-1843, 1885. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 38...

Lt. Barthelmess

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Gano, Richard M. (Richard Montgomery), 1830-1913

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Cheatham, Benjamin Franklin, 1820-1866

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Haskell, Charles T.

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T.A. Huston & Co., located in Auburn, Maine, was a manufacturer and wholesale dealer of crackers, biscuits and confectionery products. From the description of Day book no. 3 of Charles H. Haskell : for T.A. Huston & Co. 1881-1882. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 76288343 ...

Magoffin, Beriah, 1815-1885

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Governor of Kentucky, public official of Kentucky and Mississippi, and lawyer. From the description of Letters of Beriah Magoffin, 1861. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 79454225 ...

Peck, William Raine, 1818-1871

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Beckley, A., General

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Maj. R. Strange

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Hood, John Bell, 1831-1879

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Commander of the 4th Texas Regiment. From the description of Letter, 1862 Jan. 26. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 70973320 Army officer. From the description of Note of John Bell Hood, 1870. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 79450985 Confederate Army officer, stationed at Nashville (Davidson Co.), Tenn. From the description of Papers, 1862-1865. (Duke University Library). WorldCat record id: 19793299 John Bell Hood (b. June 1, 1831, Bat...

Liddell, St. John Richardson

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St. John Richardson Liddell, a prominent planter of Llanada Plantation, Catahoula Parish, Louisiana served as brigadier general in the Confederate Army during the Civil War. He commanded a division of the Army of Tennessee at the Battle of Chickamauga, Ga. Sept. 1863, assumed command of the District of Southwest Mississippi and East Louisiana August 2, 1864, and later commanded the defense of Fort Blakely, Ala. in 1865. He resumed his plantation work at Llanada at the end of the war. ...

Hill, D. H. (Daniel Harvey), 1821-1889

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Daniel Harvey Hill (1821-1889), soldier and educator, was born in York District, S.C., to Solomon Hill and Nancy Cabeen Hill. He graduated from West Point in 1842. As a United States army officer, he participated in all the major battles of the Mexican War. Hill resigned from the military in 1849 to become professor of mathematics at Washington College (now Washington and Lee University). In 1854, he accepted the chair of the mathematics department at Davidson College, a position he held unti...

King, William Henry, 1828-1903

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Capt. F. J. Snead

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Green, Allen J.

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Edwin Cary Walthall

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Shelby, Charles Miller, 1833-1907

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Dockery, Thomas Pleasant, 1833-1898

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Walker, Reuban Lindsay, 1827-1890

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Trimble, Isaac Ridgeway, 1802-1888

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American army officer, Confederate brig. general. From the description of Signature on report of the 7th Brigade, 3rd Division : "Near Gordonsville, Va.", 1862 Jul. 31. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270573193 ...

Bramlette, Thomas Elliott, 1817-1875

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Kentucky governor. From the description of Proclamation, 1863 Oct. 17. (Duke University Library). WorldCat record id: 34122466 Thomas E. Bramlette was born in Cumberland County, KY, in 1817. He was a elected a member of the KY state legislature in 1841 and served as a KY state court judge in 1856. He was a colonel in the Union Army during the Civil War and a U.S. District Attorney for Kentucky in 1863. He served as Governor of Kentucky, 1863-67. He died in Louisville, KY, in...

Jackson, William Lowther, 1798-1890

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Johnston, William Preston

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Lawyer, Confederate army officer, and president of Tulane University. Born 1831, died 1899. From the description of Papers of William Preston Johnston, 1852-1863. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 79423993 ...

Geter

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A. C. Mathews

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Du Bose, Dudley McIver, 1834-1883

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Col. Spaulding

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Col. A. C. Myers

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Sears, Claudius Wistar, 1817-1891.

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Mississippi educator and Brigadier General in the Army of the Confederate States of America. From the description of Journal, 1841-1863. (Rice University). WorldCat record id: 30599862 ...

Magruder, John Bankhead, 1807-1871

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James Barron Hope was born 23 March 1829 in Norfolk, Virginia. He was the grandson of Commodore James Barron (1769-1851) and son of Wilton Hope and Jane Armistead (Barron) Hope (1791-1862). James Barron Hope graduated from the College of William and Mary. He practiced law and was the commonwealth's attorney for Norfolk. He married Annie Beverley Whiting (1825-1920) in 1857. The couple had two daughters, Jane ("Janey" or "Jennie") Barron Hope (b. 1859?) and Ann ("Nanny") Hope. James Barron Hope i...

De Bray, Xavier Blanchard.

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Gregg, Maxcy, 1814-1862

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Lawyer and soldier of Columbia, S.C.; attended South Carolina College; admitted to the bar, 1839; served as an officer in U.S. Army during the Mexican-American War and as Brigadier-General in Confederate States Army; delegate, 1860, from Richland District, S.C. at S.C. Secession convention; killed, Dec. 1862, at the Battle of Fredericksburg; son of James and Cornelia Maxcy Gregg. From the description of Maxcy Gregg papers, 1835-1888. (University of South Carolina). WorldCat record id...

William Nelson Rector Beall.

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William M Button & Co.

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Stewart, Alexander Peter, 1821-1908

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Alexander Peter Stewart (1821-1908), Confederate General, commanded the Army of Tennessee in 1864. From the description of Letter to Colonel Andrew J. Kellar, 1864 May 31. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 38476231 Major general (from Tenn. and Ky.) in the Confederate army. From the description of Papers, 1862-1863. (Duke University Library). WorldCat record id: 38247278 ...

Ripley, Rosewell Sabine, 1818-1867

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William Robertson Boggs

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Samuel Bell Maxey

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Maj. Smith

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Milton, John, 1807-1865

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Governor of Florida; as governor he developed a very active state militia and stressed Florida's ability to serve as an important source of food and salt for the Confederate forces; collapse of the Southern cause was followed by his death, April 1,1865 by a self-inflected gunshot wound at his family home Sylvania, near Marianna, Fla. From the description of John Milton letter book and correspondence, 1861-1863. (Florida Historical Society). WorldCat record id: 499152526 John...

Preston, John Smith, 1809-1881

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Member of the S.C. General Assembly (1848-1851); lieutenant colonel in Confederate Army; mustered troops in Charleston, S.C. (Nov. 1861 through Jan. 1862); commander of prison camp in Columbia, S.C. (Feb.-Mar. 1862); conscription officer for South Carolina (Apr. 1862-July 1863) in Columbia, S.C. From the description of Letter, 1862 Feb. 20, Columbia, S.C., to Robert E. Lee. (University of South Carolina). WorldCat record id: 37787271 Confederate general; South Carolina repre...

Maj. G. A. Henry

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Pierpont, Francis Harrison, 1814-1899

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Francis Harrison Pierpont (1814-99), Union leader in Virginia during the Civil War, head of the government set up by the Wheeling Convention of June, 1861, and governor of "restored" Virginia (i.e., that part of the state under federal control but not incorporated in West Virginia). After the war he remained as governor until 1868. In 1881, he changed his last name from Peirpoint to Pierpont. From the description of Papers of Francis Harrison Pierpont, 1861-1883 (bulk 1861-1868). (Hu...

Ransom, R. (Robert), 1828-1892

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A West Point graduate, Robert Ransom served in the U.S. Army under then-Lt Colonel Edwin V. Sumner, 1st U.S. Cavalry, 1855-57. He resigned his army post at the onset of the Civil war to serve in the Confederate Army as Captain of Cavalry. By the end of the war, he reached the rank of Major General. He later worked as an express agent, city marshal at Wilmington, N.C., planter and civil engineer. From the description of Robert Ransom letter, 1879. (Louisiana State University). WorldCa...

Mrs. William Wirt Allen

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Buford, Abraham, 1820-1884

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Walker, Lucius Marshall, 1829-1863

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Wells, James Madison, 1808-1899

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Born near Alexandria, La., in 1808, James Madison Wells was the son of Samuel Levi Wells II, a member of the Louisiana constitutional convention in 1811. After completing his education at St. Joseph's College in Bardstown, Ky., and at Cincinnati Law School, Wells returned to Louisiana to manage his family's plantations. He married Mary Ann Scott in 1833. Wells was an active Whig but transferred his allegiance to the Democratic Party after the Whig Party's collapse in the 1850s, supporting Stephe...

Wade, William B.

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Crittenden, George Bibb, 1812-1880

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Jordan, Thomas, 1819-1895

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Confederate general, chief of staff to G.T. Beauregard. From the description of Memorandum, [1874?]. (Rosenbach Museum & Library). WorldCat record id: 122541762 Confederate general. From the description of ALS, 1882 Sept. 23, New York, N.Y., to G.T. Beauregard. (Rosenbach Museum & Library). WorldCat record id: 122475273 From the description of ALS : Memphis, to G.T. Beauregard, 1866 Oct. 26. (Rosenbach Museum & Library). WorldCat record id: 1...

Otey, John M.

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Turner, M. P.

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Slaughter, James Edwin, 1827-1901.

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Maj. A. G. Pendleton

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Elliott, Stephen, 1830-1866.

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Commander of Fort Sumter, Aug. 1863-May 1864, during Civil War; native of Beaufort District, S.C.; son of Stephen Elliott (1806-1866), first Protestant Episcopal Bishop of the Diocease of Georgia. From the description of Calendar of selected papers, 1861-1865, of Stephen Elliott (1830-1866) among the Elliott family papers, 2004 Apr. (University of South Carolina). WorldCat record id: 57175299 ...

W. S. Ploham

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Maury, Matthew Fontaine, 1806-1873

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American naval officer and oceanographer. From the description of Letter to Capt. Charles Wilkes [manuscript], 1848 March 15. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 647808228 From the description of Letter to Andrew Hull Foote [manuscript], 1856 April 4. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 647817495 Epithet: Astronomer British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000135.0x000219 ...

George P. Terrill

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Clanton, James Holt, 1827-1871

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Hogg, Joseph Lewis, 1806-1862

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Myers, A. C.

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George Howard

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Jones, Samuel, 1819-1887

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Army officer. From the description of Papers of Samuel Jones, 1841-1911. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 79455150 ...

Wayne, Henry C. (Henry Constantine), 1815-1883

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U.S. Army and later Confederate Army officer, from Milledgeville (Baldwin Co.), Ga. From the description of Papers, 1859-1864. (Duke University Library). WorldCat record id: 20460591 ...

De Leon, Edwin, 1818-1891

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Journalist, U.S. consul to Egypt, and Confederate agent. From the description of Edwin De Leon papers, 1864-1885. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 79423951 ...

Taliaferro, William Booth, 1822-1898.

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William Booth Taliaferro of Dunham Massie, Gloucester, Va., served in the Confederate Army; represented Gloucester County in the Virginia House of Delegates, 1850-1853 and 1874-1879; and served as a judge of the Gloucester County Court, 1891-1897. He married Sally Nivison Lyons (1828-1899), who was the daughter of the Hon. James Lyons (1801-1882) of Richmond, Va., and his first wife, Henningham (Watkins) Lyons (1799-1851). From the description of Papers, 1805-1899, of William Booth T...

Polignac, C. J.

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Maj. W. H. Taylor

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Pierre Gustave Toutant Beauregard.

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Mercer, Hugh W. (Hugh Weedon), 1808-1877

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Hugh Weedon Mercer, Confederate officer, merchant, and banker, was born on November 27, 1808 in Fredericksburg, Virginia, and died in Baden Baden, Germany on June 9, 1877. He graduated from West Point in 1828. He was commissioned a colonel with the Confederate Army when Georgia seceded; was appointed a brigadier general (1861) and commanded the post of Savannah for most of the war. He was a brigade commander under Hardee during the Atlanta Campaign (1864). From the description of Hug...

Walker, James A. (James Alexander), 1832-1901

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James Alexander Walker (1832-1901) was a lawyer, Confederate brigadier general, Democratic state official, and Republican United States representative, 1895-1899, of Virginia. From the guide to the James A. Walker Papers, ., 1855-1928, (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Southern Historical Collection.) Lawyer, Confederate brigadier general, Democratic state official, and Republican U.S. representative, 1895-1899, of Virginia. From the descript...

Hill, Benjamin Jefferson, 1825-1880

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Capt. W. S. Winder

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Whiting, William Henry Chase, 1824-1865

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Confederate general. From the description of Letter, 1865. (Duke University Library). WorldCat record id: 38385604 ...

Maj. M. M. Kimmel

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Roswell V. Booth

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Capt. P. C. Warrick

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Stevenson, Carter Littlepage, 1817-1888.

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Jackson, William Hicks, 1835-1903

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Reynolds, Daniel Harris, 1832-1902

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Branch, Lawrence O'Bryan, 1820-1862.

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Lawyer, railroad executive, U.S. Representative, and Confederate Army officer, of Raleigh, N.C. From the description of Papers of Lawrence O'Bryan Branch [manuscript], 1840-1913. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 647856338 ...

Gilmor, Harry, 1828-1883

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Kelly, John Herbert, 1840-1864

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Cocke, Philip St. George, 1809-1861

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Agriculturist and Confederate officer. From the description of Papers of Philip St. George cocke [manuscript] 1829-71. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 647966449 Virginia planter, Confederate general. From the description of Papers of Philip St. George Cocke [manuscript], 1848-1850. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 647823315 From the description of Letters from his wife, son, and daughter [manuscript] 1849-1856. (University of V...

Collett Seventhorpe

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Confederate States Army - Browne's Brigade.

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Ewell, Benjamin Stoddert, 1810-1894

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James Barron Hope was born 23 March 1829 in Norfolk, Virginia. He was the grandson of Commodore James Barron (1769-1851) and son of Wilton Hope and Jane Armistead (Barron) Hope (1791-1862). James Barron Hope graduated from the College of William and Mary. He practiced law and was the commonwealth's attorney for Norfolk. He married Annie Beverley Whiting (1825-1920) in 1857. The couple had two daughters, Jane ("Janey" or "Jennie") Barron Hope (b. 1859?) and Ann ("Nanny") Hope. James Barron Hope i...

Donelson, Daniel Smith, 1801-1863

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Richard Stoddard Ewell

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Osband, E. D.

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Stevens, Alexander H. (Alexander Hodgdon), 1789-1869

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New York surgeon. From the description of Papers, 1839 and undated, [New York City]. (Duke University). WorldCat record id: 35359698 ...

McCreary, James B. (James Bennett), 1838-1918

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James Bennett McCreary (July 8, 1838 - October 8, 1918) was born in Richmond, Kentucky, the son of Dr. Edmund R. and Sabrina (Bennett) McCreary. During the Civil War, McCreary served with John Hunt Morgan in the 11th Kentucky Cavalry. He served as Governor of Kentucky from 1875-1879 and 1911-1915. He served in the US House of Representatives from 1884-1897. He also served in the US Senate 1903-1909. In 1914, McCreary ran for the US Senate, but lost. He died in Richmond in 1918. From ...

Belmont, Perry, 1850-1947

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American banker and politician; US Congressman from NY, 1881-1889 From the guide to the Perry Belmont letters, 1886, 1896, 1906, (The New York Public Library. Manuscripts and Archives Division.) Perry Belmont served as a congressional representative from New York from 1881-1888, and as a major in the U.S. Army during the Spanish-American War. He was the son of Augustus Belmont, and brother of Oliver Hazard Perry Belmont. From the description of Perry Belmont lett...

Starke, William Edwin, 1814-1862

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Strahl, Otho French, 1831-1864

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Lomax, Lunsford Lindsay, 1835-1913

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Lunsford Lindsay Lomax (1835-1913) served as a major general in the military of the Confederate States of America. From the guide to the Lunsford Lindsay Lomax Papers, ., 1843-1909, (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Southern Historical Collection.) ...

Kershaw, Joseph Brevard, 1822-1894

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Army officer and jurist; son of Col. John Kershaw (1765-1829) and Harrietta Du Bose Kershaw; grandson of Joseph Kershaw (ca. 1727-1791); husband of Lucretia Douglas; commanded Palmetto Regt., 1843, in Mexican War; member of: S.C. legislature, 1852-1856, and S.C. Secession Convention, 1860; promoted to Major General, Confederate Army, by 1864; president of S.C. Senate, 1865. From the description of Joseph Brevard Kershaw papers, 1766-1931 (bulk, 1766-1888). (University of South Caroli...

McRae, Dandridge, 1829-1899

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Dandridge McRae was born in Baldwin County, Ala., 10 Oct. 1829 and came to Arkansas (White County, Red River Township) in 1849. He moved to Searcy in 1853 and began practicing law there in 1854. In 1856 he was elected County and Circuit Clerk and served for six years. McRae became actively involved in organizing troops in 1861 during preparations for the Civil War. Many organized companies reported to McRae at the outset of fighting and he took command of them at the request of General Ben McCul...

Browne, William M. (William Montague), 1823-1883

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William Montague Browne (1823-1883), Brigadier-General on the staff of President Jefferson Davis of the Confederate States of America, later moved to Athens (Ga.) and became professor of history and political economy at the University of Georgia. From the description of William Montague Browne papers, 1864-1880. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 38477258 William M. Browne was a newspaper editor and served as a Confederate Brigadier General during the Civil War. From...

Capt. Bradford

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Griffith, George R.

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Shorter, John Gill, 1818-1872

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Civil War governor of Ala. From the description of Papers, 1860-1861. (Duke University Library). WorldCat record id: 38247275 Governor of Alabama and jurist. From the description of John Gill Shorter correspondence, 1862. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 70980457 ...

Cooper, Douglas Hancock, 1815-1879.

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Douglas Hancock Cooper (1815-1879) of Mississippi was a soldier in the Mexican War and the Confederate Army, and an Indian claims agent. From the guide to the Douglas Hancock Cooper Papers, ., 1940, (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Southern Historical Collection.) Douglas Hancock Cooper (1815-1879) of Mississippi, soldier in the Mexican War and the Confederate Army, and Indian claims agent. From the description of Douglas Hancock Cooper pape...

Morgan, John Tyler, 1824-1907

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A lawyer from Dallas County, Alabama, Morgan was elected to the U.S. Senate in 1876 and served there until his death. As chairman of the Inter-oceanic and Foreign Relations Committees, he promoted the annexation of Cuba and the construction of an isthmian canal. From the description of Papers, 1857-1907. (Auburn University). WorldCat record id: 26181771 U.S. senator from Alabama and lawyer. From the description of Papers of John Tyler Morgan, 1840-1907 (bulk 1882...

Ward, Thomas

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Epithet: Captain in France British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000816.0x000342 Epithet: Deputy King's Waiter British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000816.0x000343 Epithet: MB; Prisoner in the Fleet British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000816.0x000344 Epithe...

Boggs, William Robertson, 1829-1911.

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William R. Boggs was a brigadier general in the Confederate States Army and Chief of Staff of the Trans-Mississippi Dept. from 1862 to 1865. From the description of William R. Boggs reminiscences, 1891. (Louisiana State University). WorldCat record id: 70696886 United States and Confederate officer. From the description of Letters, 1855-1857. (Duke University Library). WorldCat record id: 34126653 Native of Georgia; graduate of West Point; member of the ...

Lee, Susan Palfrey, 1767-1822

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Harrison, Thomas, 1823-1875

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Henderson, R. H.

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Pegram, John, 1832-1865

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Civil War soldier. From the description of Letter, 1865. (Duke University Library). WorldCat record id: 32452489 Confederate general. From the description of Report, 1863 Apr. 1. (Filson Historical Society, The). WorldCat record id: 49308757 ...

W. W. Cluskey

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Gregory, John M.

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Ives, J. C.

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Army officer and engineer. Born 1828, died 1868. Full name: Joseph Christmas Ives. From the description of Papers of J. C. Ives, 1862. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 79454086 Lt. Joseph C. Ives of the United States Army Corps of Topographic Engineers was in command of a U.S. Army expedition whose mission was to explore the region of the Colorado River and the Grand Canyon, and to establish the limit of navigation of the Colorado River. From the description of [Jo...

Gen. Jackson

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Byers, Q. S. '

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Samuel Jones

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St. William H. Woodman

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Bonham, Milledge L. (Milledge Luke), 1813-1890

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Governor of South Carolina, 1863-1865; from Columbia, S.C. From the description of Papers, 1861-1864. (Duke University Library). WorldCat record id: 19276836 Governor of S.C.; Confederate Army officer; native of Edgefield District, S.C. From the description of Letter, 1863 Oct. 2 (Columbia, S.C.) to Col. J[ames] W[ashington] Harrison. (University of South Carolina). WorldCat record id: 704556374 Lawyer, Confederate Army officer, S.C. Governor, S.C. Repre...

Wise, Henry Alexander, 1906-1982

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Johnston, George Doherty, 1832-1910

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Vaughan, Alfred J., 1830-

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Rosser, Thomas Lafayette, 1836-1910

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Confederate States of America general. From the description of Portrait of Thomas Lafayette Rosser [manuscript], ca. 1858. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 647806656 From the description of Photograph of Thomas Lafayette Rosser, ca. 1898. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 64431642 Confederate general during Civil War; resident of Charlottesville, Va. From the description of Papers, 1861-1867. (Duke University Library). WorldCat r...

Forney, John Horace, 1829-1902.

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John Horace Forney was a planter and a major general in the C.S.A. Army. The family resided in Jacksonville, Ala. From the description of Family photographs, [18--]-1902. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 145410141 ...

Barksdale, William, 1821-1863

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Confederate general. From the description of Autograph letter signed : Columbus, Miss., to the President, 1853 Feb. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270622177 ...

Wilcox, Cadmus M. (Cadmus Marcellus), 1824-1890

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Confederate army officer. From the description of Cadmus M. Wilcox papers, 1846-1887. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 80602302 ...

Wickham, William Carter, 1820-1888

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Maj. Joseph V. H. Allen

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Col. M. S. Clark

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Davis, Joseph Robert, 1825-1896

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Cook, Philip, 1817-1894

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Chilton, R. H. (Robert Hall), 1816-1879

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Murrah, P. (Pendleton), -1865

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Texas governor Pendleton Murrah (1826?-1865) graduated from Brown University in 1848. He practiced law in Alabama before moving to Texas in 1850 to help with his tuberculosis. Later that year, Murrah married Sue Ellen Taylor and opened a law firm in Marshall. As a Democrat, he served in the Texas Legislature (1857-1859) and, during the Civil War, as quartermaster officer in the 14th Texas Infantry of the Confederate Army (1862). During his tenure as governor of Texas from 1863 throu...

Moore, Samuel Preston, 1813-1889

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Capt. McNutt

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Whitford, John D. (John Dalton), 1825-1910

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St. McDonald

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Mrs. James Holt Clanton

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Palmer, Joseph B. (Joseph Benjamin), 1825-1890

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W. H. McCardle

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McGowan, Samuel, 1819-1897

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Lawyer, of Abbeville, S.C.; six-term state legislator, Abbeville District, 1851-1860; Confederate general; associate justice, South Carolina Supreme Court, 1879-1893. From the description of Samuel McGowan papers, 1803-1977; (bulk, 1845-1904). (University of South Carolina). WorldCat record id: 30380149 ...

Adams, Charles W., 1948-

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John Letcher

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R. I. Walker

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Fort Pulaski.

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Jordan, E. C.

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Mrs. Will S. Brown

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Col. John M. Otey

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Anderson, General

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Hindman, Thomas Carmichael, 1828-1868

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Robertson, Beverly Holcombe, 1827-1910.

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Clark, John B. (John Bullock), 1802-1885

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Wayne, Henry C. (Henry Constantine), 1815-1883

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U.S. Army and later Confederate Army officer, from Milledgeville (Baldwin Co.), Ga. From the description of Papers, 1859-1864. (Duke University Library). WorldCat record id: 20460591 ...

Mrs. Richard Griffith

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Maj. E. S. Burford

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Griffith, Richard, 18l4-1862.

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Whiting, William Henry Chase, 1824-1865

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Confederate general. From the description of Letter, 1865. (Duke University Library). WorldCat record id: 38385604 ...

Pryor, Roger A. (Roger Atkinson), 1828-1919

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Roger Atkinson Pryor (1828-1919) was a newspaper editor, lawyer, judge, Confederate general, and member of the U.S. and the Confederate Houses of Representatives. From the description of Letter : Richmond, to H. A. Wise, 1854 January 6. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122647320 U.S. Congressman, Confederate soldier, and jurist. From the description of Letters, 1838-1912. (Duke University Library). WorldCat record id: 154270855 From the description of Lett...

Johnson, Bradley T. (Bradley Tyler), 1829-1903

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Confederate general and author. After the war he practiced law in Richmond, Va., and Baltimore, Md., and served in the Virginia State Senate. From the description of Papers of Bradley T. Johnson, 1676-1937 (bulk 1840-1896). (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 32136031 Confederate soldier; lawyer. From the description of Autograph letter signed : Richmond, Va., to W.W. Belknap, 1873 Dec. 12. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270489534 From the desc...

Col. Gaspard Tochman

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Vance, Robert B. (Robert Brank), 1828-1899

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Confederate army officer and U.S. representative from North Carolina. From the description of Robert B. Vance correspondence, 1863 October 9. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 70981249 Served in U.S. House of Representatives from North Carolina, 1873-1885. Had been a Brigadier General in the Confederate Army during the Civil War. From the description of Letter, Dec. 9, 1880. (Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library). WorldCat record id: 55983612 ...

Walker, Leroy Pope, 1817-1884

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Lawyer, politician, and Confederate secretary of war (1861). From the description of Papers, 1861-1868. (Duke University Library). WorldCat record id: 41150151 Leroy Pope Walker was the first Confederate Secretary of War and later Brigadier General. John Beauchamp Jones was the author of "A Rebel War Clerk's Diary" (Philadelphia, 1866), which presented a vivid picture of wartime Richmond. Therein he described seeing Walker in Montgomery on 19 May 1861, and, telling him of hi...

Randolph, George Wythe, 1818-1867

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Confederate secretary of war. From the description of Letter : to Bettie D. George, Charlottesville, Va., 1862 September 25. (Charlottesville-Albemarle History Collection). WorldCat record id: 29536517 Army general and Secretary of War for the Confederate States of America. From the description of George Wythe Randolph letter, 1862 July 17. (Louisiana State University). WorldCat record id: 259801913 ...

Wood, Sterling Alexander Martin, 1823-1891

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Gamble, Hamilton Rowan, 1798-1864

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Gist, States Rights, 1831-1864

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Baker, Laurence Simmons, 1830-1907.

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Howell Cobb

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Ruggles, Daniel, 1810-1897

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Daniel Ruggles, a native of Massachusetts and former U. S. Army officer, was a general in the Confederate Army. Ruggles led the Second Division in the Battle of Baton Rouge, 1862. From the description of Daniel Ruggles letter, 1861 Dec. 2. (Louisiana State University). WorldCat record id: 122505551 From the description of Daniel Ruggles letter, 1836 Nov. 1. (Louisiana State University). WorldCat record id: 317132959 From the description of Daniel Ruggles Confederate...

Kirby Smith, Edmund, 1824-1895

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Dunovant, John, 1825-1864

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Gilmer, Jeremy Francis, 1818-1883

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Jeremy Francis Gilmer was born in 1818 and died in 1883 in Savannah, Georgia. He graduated from West Point and was an engineer in the United States Army. Gilmer married Louise Frederika Alexander of Savannah in 1850. In 1861, he was appointed colonel in the Confederate States Army and Chief Engineer to Major General Albert Sidney Johnston. Gilmer was later appointed Major General, Chief Engineer of the Department of Northern Virginia and Chief Engineer of the War Department. He assisted in setti...

Triplete, Thornton.

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Col. R. H. Cole

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Col. Lucius Bellinger Northrup

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Hines, P. E.

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Jack, Thomas M.

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Thomas, Edward Lloyd, 1825-1898.

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Stafford, Leroy Augustus, 1822-1864

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Browne, William M. (William Montague), 1823-1883

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William Montague Browne (1823-1883), Brigadier-General on the staff of President Jefferson Davis of the Confederate States of America, later moved to Athens (Ga.) and became professor of history and political economy at the University of Georgia. From the description of William Montague Browne papers, 1864-1880. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 38477258 William M. Browne was a newspaper editor and served as a Confederate Brigadier General during the Civil War. From...

Stevens, Walter Husted, 1827-1867.

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Maj. George Williamson

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Page, Pawhatan R.

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Peane, James H.

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Morton, Richard, 1637-1698

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Epithet: junior, MD British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000841.0x0000ce Epithet: Chaplain to Lord Sondes British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000841.0x0000cd Epithet: of Add MS 28886 British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000841...

Page, Richard Lucian, 1807-1901.

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U.S. and Confederate naval officer and Confederate army officer, from Norfolk, Va. From the description of Richard Lucian Page books, 1825-1864 [microfilm manuscript]. WorldCat record id: 23907161 United States and Confederate naval officer and Confederate army officer, from Norfolk, Va. From the guide to the Richard Lucian Page Books, ., 1825-1864, (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Southern Historical Collection.) U.S. and Confedera...

Buford, John W.

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Robertson, Felix Huston, 1839-1928

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Felix H. Robertson attended West Point from 1857, but resigned in January 1861. He served at Fort Sumter, Shiloh, Murfreesboro, Chickamauga, and Atlanta. He rose to the rank of brigadier general and was the last surviving Confederate general. From the description of Felix H. Robertson letters, 1894-1900. (Louisiana State University). WorldCat record id: 316060616 ...

Walker, M. S.

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Flanagin, Harris, 1817-1874

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Harris Flanagin was born in New Jersey on 3 Nov. 1817. He moved to Greenville, Ark., then the county seat of Clark County, and began practicing law. In 1841 he served as deputy sheriff of Clark County. In 1842 Flanagin was elected state representative and served for two years. He was again elected to public office in 1848 and served in the state senate for the next two years. Flanagin married Martha E. Nash of Washington in 1851. They had three children: Duncan, Nash and Laura. Following Arkansa...

Tucker, William Feimster, 1827-1881.

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Johnson, Adam Rankin, 1834-

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Harrison, George T.

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Evans, Nathan George, 1824-1868

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Nathan George "Shanks" Evans (3 Feb. 1824-23 Nov. 1868) was a captain in the 2nd U.S. Cavalry who became a brigadier general in the Confederate States Army; born in Darlington District, S.C.; 1848 graduate of the United States Military Academy; assigned to the 1st Dragoons, with whom he served on the frontier in the West; following surrender, Evans taught school, 1866-1868 in Cokesbury (Greenwood County, S.C.) and in Alabama. From the description of Nathan George Evans papers, 1861-1...

Beale, Richard Lee Turberville, 1819-1893.

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Virginia lawyer and congressman. From the description of Letters, 1848-1862. (Duke University Library). WorldCat record id: 34122378 ...

Capt. W. Y. C. Humes

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Bee, Hamilton Prioleau, 1822-1897

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Hamilton P. Bee held several public offices for the Republic of Texas and served in the Texas state legislature from 1849 to 1859. He was a Confederate brigadier general, first as administrator of the lower Rio Grande district, then as a field commander during the Red River campaign under Lieutenant General Richard Taylor. From the description of Hamilton P. Bee certificate, 1838. (Louisiana State University). WorldCat record id: 76968492 Bee (1822-1897) was a lieutenant in ...

Perry, Edward Aylesworth, 1831-1889

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Pendleton, A. S.

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McRae, Dandridge, 1829-1899

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Dandridge McRae was born in Baldwin County, Ala., 10 Oct. 1829 and came to Arkansas (White County, Red River Township) in 1849. He moved to Searcy in 1853 and began practicing law there in 1854. In 1856 he was elected County and Circuit Clerk and served for six years. McRae became actively involved in organizing troops in 1861 during preparations for the Civil War. Many organized companies reported to McRae at the outset of fighting and he took command of them at the request of General Ben McCul...

Waring, J. Fred.

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Pettus, Edmund Winston, 1821-1907

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Manigault, Arthur Middleton, 1824-1886

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Pillow, Gideon Johnson, 1806-1878

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Gideon Johnson Pillow (1806-1878) was born in Williamson County, Tennessee. He practiced law with James Knox Polk (1795-1849), the 11th presdient of the United States. Pillow was appointed Brigadier General of the U.S. Volunteers in 1846 and later promoted to Major General because of his friendship with President Polk. He served during the Mexican War (1846-1848) and fought during the battles of Vera Cruz, Cerro Gordo, Contreras, and Chapultepec. He was appointed Senior Major General of the Prov...

Marshall, John, d. 1862

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Jones, Charles C. (Charles Colcock), 1831-1893

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"Known as the "Macaulay of the South," Charles C. Jones Jr. was the foremost Georgia historian of the nineteenth century. Also a noted autograph and manuscript collector and an accomplished amateur archaeologist, Jones in later years became a prominent memorialist of the Lost Cause and critic of the New South." - "Charles C. Jones Jr." New Georgia Encyclopedia. http://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org (Retrieved August 21, 2008) From the description of Charles Colcock Jones letters, 1866-1...

Trenholm, George Alfred, 1806-1876

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Secretary of Confederate Treasury; member of South Carolina House of Representatives; cotton broker and native of Charleston, S.C.; Trenholm owned John Fraser & Company of Charleston, S.C., and shipped sea island cotton to Fraser, Trenholm, and Co. (Liverpool, England); Trenholm also owned interests in interests in steamships, railroads, banks, hotels, plantations, wharves, and cotton presses; father of William Lee Trenholm (1836-1901), who served as Captain, Company B, Seventh Regiment, Sou...

Anderson, James Patton, 1822-1873

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Born Franklin County, Tenn.; first territorial delegate to Congress from Washington; brigadier general, Confederate Army. From the description of ADS, [1871, no day]. (Rosenbach Museum & Library). WorldCat record id: 122585669 James Patton Anderson (1822-1873), native of Tennessee, was a politician in Mississippi and Florida, Mexican War officer, federal officer in the Washington Territory, and Confederate congressman and general. From the guide to the James ...

Heth, Henry, 1825-1899

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United States Army officer and Confederate States of America general; of Chesterfield County and Richmond, Va. From the description of Papers of Henry Heth [manuscript], 1758-1942. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 647854522 ...

De Langnel, Julius Adolph, 1827-1912

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Maj. L. O. Chestney

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Ellis, John Willis, 1820-1861

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John W. Ellis was Governor of North Carolina, from 1859-1861. This broadside was issued to call the North Carolina legislature into special session on April 17, 1861. The session was called as a result of Abraham Lincoln's call to arms "for the invasion of the peaceful homes of the South ..." From the description of Proclamation, 1861. (University of North Carolina, Wilmington). WorldCat record id: 49916174 John Willis Ellis was a Salisbury, N.C., lawyer, Democratic Party le...

Davidson, Hunter

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Snead, Thomas L. (Thomas Lowndes), 1828-1890

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County official and state representative from Johnston Co., N.C. From the description of Papers, 1856-1871. (Duke University Library). WorldCat record id: 40761600 "Col. Thomas Lowndes Snead... was born in Henrico County, Va., Jan. 10, 1828. He was graduated from Richmond College in 1846 and the University of Virginia in 1848, and afterward studied law. He moved to St. Louis in 1850... In 1861 Mr. Snead was appointed aide de camp of Gen. Claiborne F. Jackson... ...

Benning, Henry L. (Henry Lewis), 1814-1875

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Henry Lewis Benning was born in Columbia County, Georgia, the son of Pleasant Moon Benning and Malinda Meriwether White, planters. In 1834 he graduated with honors from the University of Georgia, Athens. Soon afterward he moved to Columbus, where he was admitted to the bar. Barely two years after entering upon his profession, Benning was appointed solicitor general for his judicial circuit. in 1839 he married Mary Howard Jones, daughter of a prominent Columbus attorney with whom Benning formed a...

Braxton Bragg

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Warren, Winslow, 1838-1930

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Warren received his LL.B. from Harvard Law School (1861) and practiced law in Boston. From 1894-1898 he served as collector for the Port of Boston. From the description of Letters to Winslow Warren, 1886-1908. (Harvard Law School Library). WorldCat record id: 235163235 ...

Huger, Daniel Elliott, 1779-1854

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Dinwiddie C. H.

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S. D. Bashe

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Wallace, William A. (William Andrew), 1827-1896

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William A. Wallace was a merchant in New York City from the late 1700s to the early 1800s. He was a partner of Nicholas Low (1739-1826) in the mercantile firm Low and Wallace. From the guide to the William A. Wallace papers, 1808-1815, 1809-1810, (The New York Public Library. Manuscripts and Archives Division.) ...

Early, Jubal Anderson, 1816-1894

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Confederate general. From the description of Autograph manuscript : [n.p., n.d.]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270742671 James Barron Hope was born 23 March 1829 in Norfolk, Virginia. He was the grandson of James Barron and son of Wilton and Jane A. (Barron) Hope. James Barron Hope graduated from the College of William and Mary. He practiced law and was commonwealth's attorney for Norfolk. He married Anne Beverley Whiting. The couple had two daughters, Jane A. Barron (Jane...

Arnold Elzey

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Kirkland, William W. (William Whedbee), 1833-1915

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Capt. French Forrest

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Lovell, Mansfield, 1822-1884

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Confederate general. From the description of Telegram, 1862 Apr. 22, New Orleans, La., to G.T. Beauregard, Corinth, Miss. (Rosenbach Museum & Library). WorldCat record id: 122626029 Born 1822 in Washington, D.C.; with U.S. Army during the Mexican War; resigned the Army and worked in civilian positions in Trenton, N.J. and New York City; joined the Confederate States Army as Major General; given command of forces defending New Orleans; held no later command but served thr...

Bell, Tyree Harris, 1815-1902

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French, Samuel Gibbs, 1818-1910

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Samuel G. French was a captain in the United States Army Quartermaster Corps. From the description of Samuel G. French papers, undated. (US Army, Mil Hist Institute). WorldCat record id: 47351206 Samuel Gibbs French (1818-1893) was born on November 22, 1818 in New Jersey to Samuel and Rebecca Clark French. He graduated from the U. S. Military Academy in 1843. He married twice, first to E. Matilda Roberts in 1853 and then to Mary Fontaine Abercrombie in 1865. He ...

Jackson, Thomas Jonathan

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Capt. R. B. Heuch

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Smith, Gustavus Woodson, 1822-1896

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Gustavus Woodson Smith (1822-1896), civil and military engineer and Confederate Major General, born in Kentucky. From the description of Gustavus Woodson Smith papers, 1858-1863. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 38478117 Army officer and engineer. Appointed major-general in the provisional Confederate Army in September 1861 and held various commands off and on until the end of the war, including several days as acting secretary of war. From the description of State...

Lt. G. Andrews

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Smith, Preston, 1823-1863

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Anderson, Joseph R. (Joseph Reid), 1813-1892

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Joseph R. Anderson (1813-1892) was associated with the Tredegar Company, a major iron works and armorer in Richmond, Virginia. He was a Confederate brigadier general and friend of Robert E. Lee. From the description of Papers, 1861-1867. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122395576 Native of Botetourt County, Virginia; graduate of West Point; associated with and owner of Tredegar Iron Works from 1841; served in the Confederate Army from 1861-1862, then was reassigned to keep the...

Steel, William, 1819-1885

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Quarles, William Andrew, 1825-1893.

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Jackson, Claiborne Fox, 1806-1862

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Stovall, Marcellus Augustus, 1818-1895

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Marcellus Augustus Stovall, 1818-1895, was born in Sparta, Georgia and attended school in Massachusetts. In 1835 he joined the Republican Blues of Augusta for service in the Seminole War. He received an appointment to the United States Military Academy but dropped out after one year because of poor health. After a tour of Europe, Stovall settled near Rome, Georgia and was the Captain of the Cherokee Artillery in 1861. At the start of the Civil War, he was appointed Colonel of Artillery in the Ge...

Alcorn, J. L. (James Lusk), 1816-1894

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James Lusk Alcorn served as governor of Mississippi from 1870-1871. From the guide to the James Lusk Alcorn Letter, 1871, (Dolph Briscoe Center for American History, The University of Texas at Austin) Mississippi resident. From the description of Letter, 1871. (Duke University Library). WorldCat record id: 31187631 U.S. senator from and governor of Mississippi. From the description of J.L. Alcorn correspondence, 1873. (Unknown). WorldCat reco...

Christopher Gustavuus Memminger

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Gary, Martin Witherspoon, 1831-1881

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Lawyer and Confederate brigadier general. From the description of Papers, 1855-1879. (Duke University Library). WorldCat record id: 39390462 South Carolina native; secessionist; held several Confederate Army commands before his promotion to brigadier general. From the description of Papers, 1864 June 13. (University of Southern Mississippi, Regional Campus). WorldCat record id: 15356196 ...

Maj. J. Stoddard Johnson

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Gay, Allen

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Pegram, Robert Baker, 1811-1894

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Pegram, of Dinwiddie County, Va., spent his career in the military first in the U.S. Navy, then the Confederate Navy where he helped organize the Virginia Volunteer Navy and commanded the Nashville (cruiser) and the Richmond (ironclad). In 1853, Pegram took part in the U.S. Surveying Expedition in the North Pacific to open up trade that resulted in a treaty between the United States and Japan the following year. From the description of Papers : of Robert Baker Pegram, 1830-1864. (The...

Buckner, Simon Bolivar, 1823-1914

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Simon Bolivar Buckner, governor of Kentucky during 1887-91, was born near Munfordville, Kentucky, in 1823, to Aytell Hartswell and Elizabeth Ann Buckner. He entered West Point in 1840 and saw active duty in the Mexican War after graduation. He later became head of Kentucky's state militia, then joined the Confederate Army as brigadier general at the start of the Civil War. After the war, Buckner was a journalist and businessman in New Orleans until he was allowed to return to Kentucky in 1868. I...

Clark, John B.

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W. Miller

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Pendleton, William Nelson, 1809-1883

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Confederate officer and Episcopal minister. From the description of Papers, 1861-1862. (Duke University Library). WorldCat record id: 20019460 William Nelson Pendleton (1809-1883) was a graduate of the United States Military Academy, an Episcopal clergyman and schoolmaster in Pennsylvania, Maryland, and Virginia, a Confederate brigadier general, serving under Joseph E. Johnston and Robert E. Lee, and rector of Grace Episcopal Church, Lexington, Va., 1853-1883. He married Anz...

Cist, Henry Martyn, 1839-1902

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Cincinnati, Ohio, lawyer; Civil War general, 74th Ohio Regiment; military historian and author; secretary, Society of the Army of the Cumberland. From the description of Letters, 1889-1890. (Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library). WorldCat record id: 28287303 ...

Aylett, P. H.

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J. W. Pegram

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Capt. James Loughborough

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Humes, W. Y. C.

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Sale, John B.

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Stith, C. H.

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Hagan, James

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Steen, A. E.

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Capt. I. H. Plarce

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J. G. Kilbourne

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Nelson, George E.

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Harris, Elizabeth H.

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Mrs. Daniel Weissiger Adams

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Capt. Schaumburg

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Robertson, Jerome Bonaparte, 1815-1890

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Col. G. M. Sorrel

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Trenholm, George A.

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Wood, John Taylor

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John Taylor Wood (1830-1904) was a United States and Confederate naval officer. He was the grandson of Zachary Taylor and nephew of Jefferson Davis. From the description of John Taylor Wood papers, 1858-1915 [manuscript]. WorldCat record id: 26380335 From the guide to the John Taylor Wood Papers, 1858-1915, (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Southern Historical Collection.) ...

Maj. MacClean

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Erlanger, Emile.

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Winder, Charles Sydney, 1829-1862

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Clayton, Henry De Lamar, 1827-1889

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Henry De Lamar Clayton, Sr. was born in Pulaski County, Georgia, on March 7, 1827, the son of Nelson and Sarah Clayton. He graduated from Emory and Henry College, Virginia, after which he read law under John G. and Eli S. Shorter in Eufaula, Alabama. In 1848 he was licensed as an attorney and began the practice of law in Clayton, Alabama. In 1857 he was chosen to represent Barbour County in the Alabama Legislature, and he served as a member of the House of Representatives until 1861...

Lafayette McLaws

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Nicholls, Francis T. (Francis Tillou), 1834-1912

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Francis T. Nicholls graduated in 1855 from the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, studied law at the University of Louisiana (subsequently Tulane University) in New Orleans, and practiced law in Napoleonville, La. He joined the Confederate Army in 1861; lost an arm and a foot in the Shenandoah Valley campaign and the Battle of Chancellorsville, respectively; and achieved the rank of brigadier general. He twice served as Governor of Louisiana (1877-1880, 1888-1892) and was a justice of the Loui...

Lawton, Alexander Robert, 1818-1896

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Alexander Robert Lawton of Savannah, Ga., was a lawyer, Confederate brigadier and quartermaster general, president of the American Bar Association, Georgia state legislator, and U.S. minister to Austria-Hungary, 1887-1889. From the description of Alexander Robert Lawton papers, 1774-1952 (bulk 1839-1896). WorldCat record id: 24864372 Confederate soldier and lawyer. From the description of Letter signed : Richmond, to S. L. Fremont, 1864 Mar. 26. (Unknown). WorldC...

Isaac Toucey

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McKay, Thomas H.

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Duncan, Johnson Kelly, 1827-1862

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Reagan, John H. (John Henninger), 1818-1905

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U.S. Representative and Senator from Texas; Confederate Postmaster General. From the description of Letter to John W. Swindell, 1878 December 1. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 50734517 Postmaster General, C.S.A. From the description of Autograph letter signed : Palestine, Texas, to George W. Paschal, Jr., 1877 Mar. 20. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270616448 Born in Sevier County, Tennessee, John Henniger Reagan (1818-1905) c...

Orr, Henry E.

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Beauregard, Pierre Gustave Toutant, 1818-1893.

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Harry T. Hayes

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Kirby, William C.

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Walker, Henry Harrison, 1832-1912

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Dickinson, B. F.

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A. E. Allen

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Green, Martin Edwin, 1815-1863.

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Hebert, Louis, 1820-1901.

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Louis Hebert was a native of Iberville Parish, La., and a Confederate general during the Civil War. From the description of Louis Hebert autobiography, circa 1893. (Louisiana State University). WorldCat record id: 170842257 From the description of Louis Hebert letter, 1889. (Louisiana State University). WorldCat record id: 170842288 1820 Louis Hebert born near Plaquemine, La. ...

Morgan, William E.

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Wheeler, Joseph, 1836-1906

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Confederate and U.S. Army general, and U.S. congressman from Ala. From the description of Letters, 1900-1905. (Filson Historical Society, The). WorldCat record id: 49377355 Confederate general. From the description of Joseph Wheeler photograph album, 1865-1866. (Louisiana State University). WorldCat record id: 241305535 Army officer. From the description of Joseph Wheeler correspondence, 1898-1901. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 70981347 ...

Humphries, Benjamin Grubbs, 1808-1882

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Durel, P.

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Brent, George William, 1821-1872

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Aching, V.

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William Bond and Son

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Hilliard, Henry W. (Henry Washington), 1808-1892

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Henry Washington Hilliard graduated from South Carolina College (now the University of South Carolina) at Columbia in 1826 and was admitted to the bar in Georgia in 1829. He was a professor in the University of Alabama at Tuscaloosa (1831-1834), a member of the Alabama House of Representatives (1836-1838), Chargé d'Affaires to Belgium (1842-1844), U.S. Representative for Alabama (1845-1851), Confederate commissioner to Tennessee, and Minister to Brazil (1877-1881). From the descript...

Rives, W. C.

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Gorgas, Josiah, 1841-1883

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Lyon, Hylan Benton, 1836-1907

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Marshall, Humphrey, 1812-1872

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Humphrey Marshall, the grandson of politician and historian Humphrey Marshall (1760-1841), was a politician, attorney, and Confederate general. Born in 1812 in Frankfort, Marshall graduated from West Point in 1832 and briefly served in the military before resigning his commission to pursue a career in law and politics. Marshall's military career resumed during the Mexican War, when he served as colonel of the 1st Kentucky Cavalry, which fought at the Battle of Buena Vista. After the war, as a Wh...

Col. L. A. Madean

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Elmore, E. C.

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Gartrell, Lucius J. (Lucius Jeremiah), 1821-1891

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Lucius J. Gartrell, Confederate Colonel with the 7th Georgia Infantry Regiment. From the description of Lucius J. Gartrell papers, 1848-1866. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 38476590 ...

Lt. Smith

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McComb, William, 1828-1918

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Wallace McDugald

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Buckner, Simon Bolivar, 1823-1914

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Simon Bolivar Buckner, governor of Kentucky during 1887-91, was born near Munfordville, Kentucky, in 1823, to Aytell Hartswell and Elizabeth Ann Buckner. He entered West Point in 1840 and saw active duty in the Mexican War after graduation. He later became head of Kentucky's state militia, then joined the Confederate Army as brigadier general at the start of the Civil War. After the war, Buckner was a journalist and businessman in New Orleans until he was allowed to return to Kentucky in 1868. I...

Gantt, Edward W.

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Simms, James Phillip

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Jackson, Stonewall, 1824-1863

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Stonewall Jackson (1824-1863) was a Confederate Army officer from Lexington (Rockbridge Co.), Va. From the guide to the Stonewall Jackson papers, 1855-1906, (David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Duke University) Confederate general. From the description of Stonewall Jackson papers, 1842-1898 (bulk 1861-1862) [manuscript]. WorldCat record id: 23186323 Confederate Army officer, from Lexington (Rockbridge Co.), Va. From the de...

Pillow, Gideon Johnson, 1806-1878

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Gideon Johnson Pillow (1806-1878) was born in Williamson County, Tennessee. He practiced law with James Knox Polk (1795-1849), the 11th presdient of the United States. Pillow was appointed Brigadier General of the U.S. Volunteers in 1846 and later promoted to Major General because of his friendship with President Polk. He served during the Mexican War (1846-1848) and fought during the battles of Vera Cruz, Cerro Gordo, Contreras, and Chapultepec. He was appointed Senior Major General of the Prov...

Lamb, William

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Epithet: Representatiiw for Haddington British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001191.0x000273 Title: Viscount Melbourne British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001191.0x000274 Epithet: of Wellingborough, county Northamptonshire; father of Judith, Baroness Wentworth British Library Archives a...

Clark, Henry T. (Henry Toole), 1917-2008

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Henry Toole Clark, Jr. (1917-), son of Henry Toole and Cornelia Josey Clark of Scotland Neck, N.C., received a B.A., UNC, 1937, and M.D., University of Rochester, 1944. Clark was director, Vanderbilt University Hospital, 1948-1950; administrator, Division of Health Affairs, UNC-CH, 1950-1966; director, Connecticut Regional Medical Program and medical school visiting professor, University of Connecticut and Yale University, 1966-1973; visiting professor community medicine, University of Connectic...

Little, Lewis Henry, 1817-1862.

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Lewis Henry Little was born in Baltimore, Md. on March 19, 1817. A veteran of the Mexican War, he resigned from the United States Army in 1861 to join the army of the Confederacy. After serving at the battle of Elkhorn, he was promoted to brigadier general on April 16, 1862. He was killed on September 19, 1862 during the Battle of Iuka in Mississippi. From the description of Bent's Fort diary, [1855] Jul 9-Sept 4. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 702172239 From the description...

George WilliamBrent

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Col. Joseph Christmas Ives

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Sorrel, G. Moxley (Gilbert Moxley), 1838-1901

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Gilbert Moxley Sorrel was born in Savannah, Georgia, in 1838. He was the son of Francis Sorrel, one of the wealthiest men in Savannah. He grew up in the Sorrel Weed House, one of the finest examples of Greek Revival architecture in the United States and one of the first two homes in Georgia to be designated as a state landmark. In his early 20s, Sorrel left his clerk job in the banking department of the Central of Georgia Railroad to join the Georgia Hussars. He was a private in the Georgia Huss...

Terry, William, 1824-1888

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Capers, Ellison, 1837-1908

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Ellison Capers (1837-1908) was a Confederate brigadier general and Episcopal bishop in South Carolina. From the guide to the Ellison Capers Papers, ., 1891; 1902 and undated, (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Southern Historical Collection.) Confederate officer and Protestant Episcopal clergyman, of Columbia and Charleston, S.C. From the description of Papers, 1860-1908. (Duke University Library). WorldCat record id: 19317092 Confede...

Finley, Jesse J. (Jesse Johnson), 1812-1904

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Imboden, John D. (John Daniel), 1823-1895

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C.S.A. general and author. From the description of Signature clipped from the register of Brown's Hotel : Washington, 1854 May 20. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 269555505 Confederate general, land developer. From the description of Papers of John D. Imboden [manuscript], 1880-1881. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 647820542 Imboden commanded the Staunton Artillery in the capture of Harper's Ferry in April 1861. Ezra Ayres Carman rose to be ...

Grimes, Bryan, 1828-1880

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Bryan Grimes (1828-1880), the son of Bryan Grimes Sr. and Nancy Grist, was a Confederate General and an enslaver who owned a cotton plantation. He graduated from the University of North Carolina in 1848, and the following year, his father gave him the family plantation Grimesland in Pitt County, N.C., along with approximately 100 enslaved persons. Bryan Grimes lived the life of plantation owner until the eve of the Civil War in 1861. He then attended North Carolina's state convention and took a ...

Davidson, H. B. (Henry B.), 1831-1899

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Alexander, L.C.

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Confederate veteran, lawyer, and district judge, partner in Waco, Texas, law firm known consecutively as Alexander and Winter; Alexander, Winter and Dickson; Alexander and Campbell; and Alexander and Atkinson. From the description of Alexander, L.C., papers, 1876-1900. (University of Texas Libraries). WorldCat record id: 22886415 ...

D. B. Conrad

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Davis, Jefferson, 1808-1889

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Mary Ann Lamar Cobb (1818-1889), wife of Gen. Howell Cobb (1815-1868). From the description of Letter to Mary Ann Lamar Cobb, 1888 Oct. 2. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 38476494 Jefferson Davis (1808-1889) was born in Kentucky. He attended Transylvania University for a short time before enrolling at West Point in 1824, at the age of 16. He graduated in 1828 and immediately joined the First Infantry. His regiment was engaged in the Blackhawk War of 1831. In 1833, he became a...

Floyd, John B. (John Buchanan), 1806-1863

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John Swank, a native of Augusta County, Va., settled near Singers Glen, Rockingham County, Va., where he lived until his death just before the outbreak of the Civil War. He was a member of the Lutheran Church and is buried at St. John's [Lutheran Church, Rockingham County.]. From the description of Land grant, 1849 March 31, to John Swank. (Colonial Williamsburg Foundation). WorldCat record id: 15347747 Biographical note: Politician; John Buchanan Floyd was Governor of Virgi...

Manney, J.

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Doles, George Pierce, 1830-1864

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G. Gantt

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Shoup, Francis A. (Francis Asbury), 1834-1896

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Jones, John Marshall, 1820-1864.

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Gladden, Adley Hogan, 1810-1862.

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Jonathan Worth

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Taylor, Richard, 1826-1879

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Lawyer and Confederate general. From the description of Letter, 1850 Aug. 31. (Filson Historical Society, The). WorldCat record id: 49324064 Taylor, Richard (27 Jan. 1826-12 Apr. 1879), Louisiana Democratic party leader, and Confederate general, was born at the Taylor family home, "Springfield," near Louisville, Kentucky, the only son of Zachary Taylor, professional army officer and president, and Margaret Mackall Smith... As a delegate from Louisiana to the 186...

William A. Buker?

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Miller, William, 1820-1909.

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Dibrell, George Gibbs, 1822-1888

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Keyes, Wade, b. 1821

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Jones, A. C.

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Reagan, John H. (John Henninger), 1818-1905

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U.S. Representative and Senator from Texas; Confederate Postmaster General. From the description of Letter to John W. Swindell, 1878 December 1. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 50734517 Postmaster General, C.S.A. From the description of Autograph letter signed : Palestine, Texas, to George W. Paschal, Jr., 1877 Mar. 20. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270616448 Born in Sevier County, Tennessee, John Henniger Reagan (1818-1905) c...

Hardee, William Joseph, 1815-1873

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Confederate brigadier general, from Selma (Dallas Co.), Ala. From the description of Papers, 1863-1871. (Duke University Library). WorldCat record id: 19657442 Confederate general. From the description of Official report of the battle of Perryville, 1862 Dec. 1. (Filson Historical Society, The). WorldCat record id: 49253061 Confederate lieutenant general; served in Mexican War; commanded cadets, West Point, 1856-1861; author of book of military tactics. ...

Godwin, Archibald Campbell, 1831-1864

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Brooke, John M. (John Mercer), 1826-1906

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John Mercer Brooke was a U.S. and Confederate naval officer, scientist, inventor, and professor at Virginia Military Institute. From the description of John M. Brooke papers, 1859-1898 [manuscript]. WorldCat record id: 26243089 John Mercer Brooke was a United States and Confederate naval officer, scientist, inventor, and professor at Virginia Military Institute. From the guide to the John M. Brooke Papers, ., 1859-1898, (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hil...

Duffel, John E.

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Moore, Samuel Preston, 1813-1889

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Withers, John, 1669-1729

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Capt. B. A. Jewett

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Francis Wilkinson Pickens

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Anderson, Richard Heron, 1821-1879

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Georgia resident; Confederate general. From the description of Manuscript, 1864. (Duke University Library). WorldCat record id: 31421784 ...

Hebert, Paul Octave, 1818-1880

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Zollicoffer, Felix Kirk, 1812-1862

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Tennessee printer, editor, state legislator, U.S. congressman, and Confederate general killed at the Battle of Mill Springs, Ky. From the description of Letters, 1832-1855. (Filson Historical Society, The). WorldCat record id: 49479566 Confederate general. From the description of Signature, cut from the register of Brown's Hotel : Washington, D.C., [n.d.]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270584722 ...

Johnston, William Preston, 1831-1899.

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Lawyer, soldier, educator, and author. From the description of William Preston Johnston : miscellaneous papers, 1863-1898. (Filson Historical Society, The). WorldCat record id: 49244114 Wiliam Preston Johnston (1831-1899), lawyer, soldier, and educator, the son of General Albert Sydney Johnston (who served in Texas, in Utah, and as commander of the Department of the Pacific in 1860, and as a Confederate general in the Civil War before his death at Shiloh), graduated from Yal...

Lee, Edwin Gray, 1836-1870

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Young, William Hugh, 1838-1901

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Rudler, Anthony F.

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Osborne, Edwin Augustus, 1837-1926

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Lawyer, Confederate colonel, Episcopal priest, and superintendent of Thompson Orphanage, Charlotte, N.C. From the description of Edwin Augustus Osborne papers, 1832-1928 (bulk 1882-1926) [manuscript]. WorldCat record id: 23469804 Edwin Augustus Osborne (1837-1926) was a lawyer, Confederate colonel, Episcopal priest, and superintendent of Thompson Orphanage, Charlotte, N.C. He served as a chaplain in the Spanish-American War. From the guide to the Edwin Augustus O...

Seddon, James A. (James Alexander), 1815-1880

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Representative from Virginia; Confederate Secretary of War. From the description of Autograph letter in pencil signed : [n.p.], to R.J. Walker, [n.d.]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270633277 Confederate Secretary of War. From the description of Letter to Dr. [Lewis] [manuscript], 1853 November 9. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 647986794 From the description of Papers, 1862-1865. (Duke University Library). WorldCat record id: 20313944 ...

Reid, John Calvin, 1901-

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McIntosh, James McQueen, 1828-1862

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Brig. General James McQueen McIntosh, CSA (1828-1862) was of the McIntosh family of McIntosh County, Georgia, a descendant of Col. William McIntosh. He was the son of Colonel James Simmons McIntosh, USA (1787-1848) who was mortally wounded at the battle of Molino del Rey in the Mexican War. Gen. James M. McIntosh commanded the cavalry unit of General Ben McCulloch's wing of General Earl Van Dorn's army at Elkhorn on March 7, 1862, where both he and McCulloch were killed. He is buried at the Nati...

D. T. Stafford

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Francis Sprigg

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MacRae, William, 1834-1882

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Gates, Elija.

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Slack, William Yarnel, 1816-1862

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Mabry, H. P.

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D. F. Jameson

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Jackson, William Lowther, 1825-1890,

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Jefferson Davis

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Ferguson, Samuel Wragg, 1834-1917

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Brigadier General, C.S.A., from Greenville (Greenville Co.), Miss. From the description of Papers, 1863-1948. (Duke University Library). WorldCat record id: 19647017 Confederate Army officer who was with General Louis T. Wigfall's battalion on the day of the attack on Fort Sumter. From the description of Papers, 1964. (Texas Tech University). WorldCat record id: 26067606 Samuel Wragg Ferguson graduated from West Point in 1857 and rose to the rank of brig...

Col. McClean

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Swinburne, John, 1820-1889

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Walker, John Grimes, 1835-1907

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Walker was an instructor at the U.S. Naval Academy; secretary, then chairman of the Lighthouse Board; served as Chief of the Navigation Board; was a member of the Nicaragua Canal Commission; and president of the Isthmian Canal Commission. From the description of The Admiral John G. Walker collection of family papers. 1865-1907. (Wichita State University). WorldCat record id: 32915790 John Grimes Walker was an American naval officer who helped lead the siege of Vicksburg duri...

Richardson, Robert V., 1820-1870

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Capt. L. B. Roy

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Maj. R. W. Memminger

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Myers, Charles Davison

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Col. Hardee

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P. W. Smith

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Gholson, Samuel Jameson, 1808-1883.

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Native of Madison County, Kentucky; resident of Aberdeen, Mississippi; Mississippi legislator, U.S. Congressman and federal judge; captain and then brigadier general in Confederate infantry and cavalry regiments; Speaker of the Mississippi House of Representatives, 1865-1867. From the description of Letter, 1863 April 13. (University of Southern Mississippi, Regional Campus). WorldCat record id: 16699678 ...

Gibson, Randall Lee, 1832-1892

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Randall Lee Gibson, Confederate States Army general and New Orleans lawyer, was a United States representative and senator from Louisiana. He graduated from Yale University in 1853 and from the law department of the University of Louisiana in 1855. His father, Tobias Gibson, was a planter of Oak Forest Plantation, Terrebonne Parish, Louisiana. From the description of Randall Lee Gibson papers, 1848-1891. (Louisiana State University). WorldCat record id: 298858456 United Stat...

Capt. G. W. Alexander

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Yeatman, Henry L., Jr.

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Cocke, Philip St. George, 1780-1866

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Lewis, Joseph Horace, 1824-1904

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Confederate General, Kentucky Court of Appeals Justice, U.S. Congressman. Lewis was born in Barren County, Ky. in 1824. He graduated from Centre College in 1843, studied law in a Glasgow attorney's office and was admitted to the Kentucky bar in 1845. He served as a state legislator from 1850 to 1853, but lost two bids for a seat in Congress. At the beginning of the Civil War, Lewis recruited soldiers for the Confederacy. He later became a colonel of the Sixth Regiment of...

Semmes, Raphael, 1809-1877

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Officer in the U.S. Navy and in the Confederate Navy, from Mobile, Ala. From the description of Papers, 1861-1872. (Duke University Library). WorldCat record id: 20313995 ...

Trapier, James Heywood, 1815-1865

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Basil Brawner

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Thompson, Meriwether Jeff, 1826-1876

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Confederate veteran and Chief State Engineer of Louisiana. From the description of M. Jeff Thompson letter, 1875 Sept. 6. (Louisiana State University). WorldCat record id: 269015946 Meriwether Jeff Thompson, Confederate officer and mayor of Saint Joseph, Mo. From the guide to the Meriwether Jeff Thompson Papers, 1860-1940, (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Southern Historical Collection.) M. Jeff Thompson, son of Meriwether and Marth...

Sharp, Thomas H.

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Pleasants, H. C.

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Law, Evander McIver, 1836-1920

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Yorkville (York Co.), S.C. resident. From the description of Papers, 1887-1888. (Duke University Library). WorldCat record id: 36668722 Confederate general, educator and journalist; native of Darlington, S.C.; 1856 graduate of The Citadel; served as a history teacher there and at Kings Mountain Military Academy until 1860 when he moved to Tuskegee, Alabama, and helped to found the Military High School; later relocated to Florida; husband of Jennie Latta Law (1844-1920). ...

Sanders Lansing Jr.

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Blanchard, Albert Gallatin, 1810-1891

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Tyler, Robert Charles, 1833-1865

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Cooper, Samuel, 1798-1876

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Army officer. From the description of Orders of Samuel Cooper, 1860. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 79449910 Native of New Jersey, adjutant general in the U.S. Army, and adjutant general and inspector general in the Confederate Army. From the description of Samuel Cooper papers, 1775-1893 [manuscript]. WorldCat record id: 24201832 Samuel Cooper was a native of New Jersey, adjutant general in the United States Army, and adjutant general and inspector gene...

Wharton, John A. (John Austin), 1806-1838

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Hawes, R. (Richard), 1797-1877

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Provisional (Confederate) Governor of Kentucky, 1862-1865. From the description of Richard Hawes papers, 1826-1877, 1826-1865 (bulk dates). (University of Kentucky Libraries). WorldCat record id: 13428502 ...

Patton, Robert M. (Robert Miller), 1809-1885

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Lewis L. Marks was born in Virginia circa 1794. On April 17, 1849, he married Mary, who was born in Tennessee in 1824. Lewis had Virginia and John (born in 1827 and 1829 repsectively) by a previous marriage and one child with Mary, Lewis W. From the guide to the Lewis L. Marks Estate Papers MSS. 2813., 1856-1858, (W.S. Hoole Special Collections Library, The University of Alabama) ...

Major, Jones Patrick, 1836-1877

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Mackall, William Whann, 1818-1891

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William Whann Mackall was born in Washington, D.C., on January 17, 1817. He graduated from West Point in 1837 and served with the U.S. Army in the Seminole and Mexican-American Wars. He was made Assistant Adjutant-General with the rank of Major in 1853, but resigned in 1861 and joined the Confederate Army. Mackall served with Simon Buckner and P.G.T. Beauregard and was promoted to Chief of Staff of the Army of Tennessee. After twice asking to be relieved of positions, Mackall was not given any f...

Mallory, Stephen Russell, 1848-1907

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Joseph Christmas Ives

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Lee, Robert E. (Robert Edward), 1897-

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Lynch, N. L.?

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Gen. Osband

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Oscar

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Holtzclaw, James Thadeus, 1833-1893.

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Col. J. F. Belton

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Maxey, Samuel Bell, 1825-1895

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Texas soldier and senator. From the description of Autograph letter signed : Washington, to the President, 1879 Feb. 28. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270638401 From the description of Autograph letter signed : Washington, to the President, 1879 Apr. 2. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270638396 Born in Tompkinsville, Kentucky, Samuel Bell Maxey (1825-1895) received an appointment to the U. S. Military Academy at West Point at the age of 17. After gradua...

Maj. D. E. Hager

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Fry, James B. (James Barnet), 1827-1894

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James B. Fry, a native of Carrollton, IL, was a graduate of the U.S. Military Academy in 1847. After serving as instructor and adjutant at West Point, he was appointed chief of staff to Gen. Irwin McDowell and subsequently to Gen. Don Carlos Buell in 1861. He later served as Provost Marshall General of the U.S., 1863-1866, and promoted to Brigadier Gen. in 1864. From the description of Fry, James B. (James Barnet), 1827-1894. Letter. 16 November 1861. (Filson Historical Society, The)...

Edward Porter Alexander

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Christopher Gustavus Memminger

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Colston, Raleigh Edward, 1825-1896

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Born in France of American parents; college professor in Virginia; Confederate brigadier general; headmaster of military schools in North Carolina; on the general staff of the Egyptian Army, 1873-1878; lecturer and author; and clerk in the U.S. War Department, 1883-1894. From the description of Raleigh Edward Colston papers, 1842-1906 [manuscript]. WorldCat record id: 24923900 Raleigh Edward Colston (1825-1896) was born in France of American parents. Colston was...

Col. H. M. Walter

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Johnston, Albert Sidney, 1803-1862

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Native of Kentucky; educated privately and at Transylvania University; graduate of West Point; served in the Black Hawk War; commanded the Army of Texas during the late 1830's; served in the Mexican War with the 1st Texas Rifle Volunteers; commissioned paymaster in the United States Army and later commanded the Department of Texas; resigned to join the Confederate Army in 1861 and commanded the Western Department from 1861 through the Battle of Shiloh, April 1862, where he was mortally wounded. ...

Scurry, William Read, 1821-1864

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Ross, Peter F.

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Kimbrough, Thomas M.

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Payne, William Henry Fitzhugh, 1830-1904,

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Logan, Thomas Muldrup, 1840-1914.

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Logan, born in Charleston, South Carolina, fought for his state during the Civil War. After the war, he located in Richmond, Virginia, where he was noted for his efforts in rehabilitating the South, including building a system of railroads and advocating the education of freed slaves. From the description of Papers : of Thomas Muldrup Logan, 1875-1916. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 30793081 Thomas Muldrup Logan, 1840-1914, Confederate General, lawyer, and rai...

Samuel Cooper

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Evans, Nathan George, 1824-1868

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Nathan George "Shanks" Evans (3 Feb. 1824-23 Nov. 1868) was a captain in the 2nd U.S. Cavalry who became a brigadier general in the Confederate States Army; born in Darlington District, S.C.; 1848 graduate of the United States Military Academy; assigned to the 1st Dragoons, with whom he served on the frontier in the West; following surrender, Evans taught school, 1866-1868 in Cokesbury (Greenwood County, S.C.) and in Alabama. From the description of Nathan George Evans papers, 1861-1...

Polk, Leonidas, 1806-1864

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Bishop in the Protestant Episcopal Church and Confederate general. From the description of Letter to Mrs. Banger, n.y. October 11. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 68116515 Polk, an Episcopal bishop, served as a major general in the Confederate army until he was killed by a cannon shot at Pine Mountain, Georgia, June 14, 1864. From the description of Letter, November 28, 1861. (Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library). WorldCat record id: 650825874 ...

Lawrence O'Bryan Branch

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Lt. J. G. Devereux

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Walker, William Henry Talbot, 1816-1864

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Confederate and U.S. Army officer, from Augusta (Richmond Co.), Ga. From the description of Correspondence, 1846-1883. (Duke University Library). WorldCat record id: 20273459 ...

Echols, John, 1823-1896

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Belmount Perry

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Moore, A. B. (Andrew Barry), 1807-1873

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Born in Spartanburg District, South Carolina, Andrew B. Moore (1807-1873) was a lawyer and the Governor of Alabama from 1857 until the outbreak of the Civil War. On December 24, 1860, Moore issued writs of election, leading to the Secession Convention of 1861. During the war, he was appointed a special aide-de-camp under General Albert Sidney Johnston. A contemporary of Moore, John Willis Ellis (1820-1861) was a lawyer, judge, and the Governor of North Carolina from 1859...

Harry H. Hanson

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Leadbetter, Danville, 1811-1866

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Paxton, Elisha Franklin, 1828-1863

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Elisha F. Paxton, a 1843 alumnus of Washington College was a member of a prominent pioneering family in Lexington, Virginia, members of whom are still prominent citizens. From the description of Papers, 1845-1863 (bulk 1854-1863). (Washington & Lee University). WorldCat record id: 53308419 ...