William and Isaac Seymour collection 1825-1869 Seymour, William and Isaac

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William and Isaac Seymour collection 1825-1869 Seymour, William and Isaac

The Seymour papers contain materials relating primarily to the Civil War service of Col. Isaac G. Seymour (6th Louisiana Infantry) and his son, William J., both residents of New Orleans.

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SNAC Resource ID: 6392705

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Seymour, Horatio, 1810-1886

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Horatio Seymour (May 31, 1810 – February 12, 1886) was an American politician. He served as Governor of New York from 1853 to 1854 and from 1863 to 1864. He was the Democratic Party nominee for president in the 1868 presidential election. Born in Pompey, New York, Seymour was admitted to the New York bar in 1832 but primarily focused on managing his family's business interests. After serving as a military secretary to Governor William L. Marcy, Seymour won election to the New York State Assem...

Gordon, Fannie Haralson.

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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 ...

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...

Seymour, Isaac Gurden, 1804-1862

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Seymour, William J., 1832-1886 Rank : Capt. (Asst. Adj. General) Regiment : C.S.A. Army. Louisiana Infantry Brigade, 1st (1861-1865) Service : 1862 March 13-1865 Seymour, Isaac Gurdon, d.1862 Rank : Col. Regiment : C.S.A. Louisiana Infantry Regiment, 6th (1861-1865) Service : 1861 May 21-1862 June 27 Isaac Gurdon Seymour was born in Savannah, Ga., in 1804, to a family with roots in Connec...

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 ...

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...

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...

Seymour, William Johnson, 1832-1886

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Seymour, William J., 1832-1886 Rank : Capt. (Asst. Adj. General) Regiment : C.S.A. Army. Louisiana Infantry Brigade, 1st (1861-1865) Service : 1862 March 13-1865 Seymour, Isaac Gurdon, d.1862 Rank : Col. Regiment : C.S.A. Louisiana Infantry Regiment, 6th (1861-1865) Service : 1861 May 21-1862 June 27 Isaac Gurdon Seymour was born in Savannah, Ga., in 1804, to a family with roots in Connec...

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...

Knights of the Golden Circle

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Created in 1854 by George W. L. Bickley, a Virginia-born physician, the Knights of the Golden Circle (KGC) was a secret organization that sympathized with the southern states and sought to establish a slaveholding nation encompassing the southern United States and Central America in a “Golden Circle.” The group championed the preservation of slavery from the perceived threat of northern Abolitionism. By 1859, KGC membership spread through the southern states and Texas, where the gro...