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Curtis, Samuel Ryan, 1805-1866

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Born near Champlain, New York, Curtis graduated from the United States Military Academy in 1831. He was stationed at Fort Gibson in the Indian Territories (present-day Oklahoma) before resigning from the Army in 1832. He moved to Ohio, where he worked as a civil engineer on the Muskingum River improvement projects and also became a lawyer in 1841. During the Mexican–American War, he was appointed colonel of the 2nd Regiment of Ohio Volunteers and served as military governor of several occupied c...

Beauregard, G. T. (Gustave Toutant), 1818-1893

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P.G.T. Beauregard was a Confederate States Army general from New Orleans, Louisiana. The Aztec Club was organized in 1847 as a fraternal society for officers serving under General Winfield Scott's command in Mexico City. Several officers later became major Civil War leaders. From the description of Pierre Gustave Toutant Beauregard letter, 1892 Dec. 29. (Louisiana State University). WorldCat record id: 70294149 Former Confederate general and resident of New Orleans. At the t...

Longstreet, James, 1821-1904

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U.S. railroad commissioner, army officer, and diplomat. From the description of James Longstreet papers, 1858-circa 1877. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 70980713 James Longstreet, military man, businessman, diplomat, and railway commissioner, was born 8 January 1821, in Edgefield District, South Carolina, and died 2 January 1904, in Gainesville, Georgia. He was a graduate of the U.S. Military Academy (1842) and served in the Mexican War before he resigned from the U.S. Army ...

Herron, Francis Jay, 1837-1902

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Francis J. Herron attended the Western University of Pennsylvania, but left at the age of sixteen without completing his degree to become a bank clerk. In 1855, he joined his three brothers in Dubuque, Iowa, where they established a bank. In 1859, he organized and was elected captain of a militia company known as the "Governor's Grays," which Herron offered to President-elect Abraham Lincoln in January 1861, two months prior to Lincoln's inauguration. In April 1861, Herron was appointed capta...

Sherman, William T. (William Tecumseh), 1820-1891

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Sherman was born in 1820 in Lancaster, Ohio, near the banks of the Hocking River. His father, Charles Robert Sherman, a successful lawyer who sat on the Ohio Supreme Court, died unexpectedly in 1829. He left his widow, Mary Hoyt Sherman, with eleven children and no inheritance. After his father's death, the nine-year-old Sherman was raised by a Lancaster neighbor and family friend, attorney Thomas Ewing, Sr., a prominent member of the Whig Party who served as senator from Ohio and as the first S...

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 ...

Stevenson, C. L. (Carter Littlepage), 1817-1888

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Holmes, T. H. (Theophilus Hunter), 1804-1880

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Theophilus Hunter Holmes was born November 13, 1804 to a prominent North Carolina family. In 1829 he graduated from the United States Military Academy at West Point. Prior to the Civil War, Holmes served in various campaigns against Native Americans and also saw action in the Mexican War, where he was brevetted for gallantry at the battle of Monterrey. When the Civil War erupted in 1861, Holmes was living in New York City and engaged as the superintendent of the recruiting station for the U.S. A...

Wood, Fernando, 1812-1881

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American politician. From the description of Autograph letter signed : New York, to an unidentified recipient, 1867 Nov. 30. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270583855 From the description of Autograph letter signed : Washington, to G.L. Ford, 1864 Jun. 21. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270583848 Mayor of New York, N.Y., and U.S. representative of New York. From the description of Fernando Wood correspondence, 1859 December 1. (Unknown). WorldCat record i...

Alexander, Peter Wellington, 1825-1886

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Colonel Peter Wellington Alexander, Confederate States of America, Georgia-born lawyer, editor and Civil War correspondent. From the description of Peter Wellington Alexander papers, 1835-1910. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 265033290 BIOGHIST REQUIRED Colonel Peter Wellington Alexander, Confederate States of America, Georgia-born editor and Civil War correspondent. From the guide to the Peter Wellington Alexander Papers, 1855-...

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...

Hindman, Thomas Carmichael, 1828-1868

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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...

Blunt, James Gillpatrick, 1826-1881

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Blunt was born in Trenton, Maine to John Blunt and Sally Gilpatrick Blunt. Blunt lived and worked on his family farm until he was 14. He may have spent some time at the Ellsworth Military Academy in Ellsworth, Maine. He became a sailor on a merchant vessel when he was 15, and attained the rank of captain at 20. In 1845 Blunt moved to Columbus, Ohio, where he enrolled in Starling Medical College. His maternal uncle, Dr. Rufus Gilpatrick, was one of the instructors. Graduating in February 1849,...

Stephens, Alexander Hamilton, 1812-1883

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Former vice-president of the Confederate States of America. From the description of Letter, 1866 Dec. 26, Crawfordville, Georgia, to Henry Bradley Plant. (Boston Athenaeum). WorldCat record id: 260819402 Alexander Hamilton Stephens (1812-1883), lawyer, politician, Vice President of the Confederate States of America. From the description of Alexander H. Stephens papers, 1844-1882. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 38476996 Lawyer, journalist, governor of Geo...

Fillmore, Millard, 1800-1874

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Millard Fillmore was born in Cayuga County, N.Y. and later became a resident of East Aurora and Buffalo. He was a lawyer, local office holder, State Assemblyman, U.S. Congressman, N.Y. State Comptroller, Vice-President under Zachary Taylor and 13th U.S. President, 1850-1853. He was also involved in establishing numerous Buffalo institutions. He was a founder and first Chancellor of the University of Buffalo, Commander of the Union Continentals (Home Guard) during Civil War, and first president o...

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 ...

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 ...

Smith, James M. (James Milton), 1823-1890

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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...

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...

Boudinot, Elias C. (Elias Cornelius), 1835-1890

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Lawyer, member of congress from New Jersey. From the description of Letter, 1789 September 2. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122629301 Epithet: LLD, President of Congress British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000389.0x00009c ...

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...

Fagan, James Fleming, 1828-1893

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Jenkins, Charles Jones, 1805-1883

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Charles Jones Jenkins was the governor of Reconstruction-era Georgia, 1865-1868. D. McRae was a resident of Telfair County, Ga., in 1865. From the description of Charles Jones Jenkins letter, 1865. WorldCat record id: 145504076 Lawyer, state legislator, supreme court justice, and governor of Georgia; from Augusta (Richmond Co.), Ga. From the description of Papers, 1814-1880. (Duke University Library). WorldCat record id: 19851615 Charles Jones (C. J.) Je...

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

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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...

Dawson, William C. (William Crosby), 1798-1856

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William Crosby Dawson (1798-1856) graduated from Franklin College, later the University of Georgia, in 1816 and. was admitted to the bar at Greensboro, GA in 1818. He served in the Creek War of 1836, in the Georgia Assembly, and as judge of Superior Court of Ocmulgee Circuit. He was a representative from Georgia from 1837-1849 and a U. S. senator from 1849-1855. From the description of William Crosby Dawson papers, 1837-1855. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 173862936 William ...

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...

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

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

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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...

Richardson, T. G. (Tobias Gibson), 1827-1892

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Hill, Benjamin H. (Benjamin Harvey), 1823-1882

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American statesman. From the description of Autograph letter signed : Atlanta, to Gen. James Longstreet, 1877 Jul. 30. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270465780 From the description of Autograph letter signed : "U. S. Senate" Washington, to President Hayes, 1877 Oct. 15. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270473781 A presence in Georgia state politics for more than three decades, Benjamin Hill was by turns a prosperous lawyer, opponent of secession, ardent supporter of t...

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. ...

Marmaduke, John Sappington, 1833-1887

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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...

Confederate states of America. Army

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The Savannah Ordnance Depot, Savannah, Georgia, was organized as a field depot during the Civil War. In April 1864, it became the Savannah Arsenal under the supervision of the Chief of Ordnance. From the description of Savannah Ordnance Depot employment roll, 1864. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 38477938 The Confederate States of America Army may have created the position of Purchasing Commissary of Subsistence to oversee the distribution of food and other supplies to the Co...

Totten, Joseph Gilbert, 1788-1864

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Army officer and engineer. From the description of Joseph Gilbert Totten correspondence, 1841 February 5. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 70980636 ...

Gwin, William McKendree, 1805-1885

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Member, California Constitutional Convention, 1849, and U.S. senator from California. From the description of Papers, 1841-1885. (California Historical Society). WorldCat record id: 28419864 William M. Gwin was born in Tennessee. In 1833 he was appointed U.S. marshal, district of Mississippi by President Jackson; in 1840 he was elected to the House of Representatives for one term. Coming to California in 1849, he worked to form a state government, representing San Francisco ...

Davis, Varina Anne, 1864-1898

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"Daughter of the Confederacy". From the description of Letter to Bradley Tyler Johnson [manuscript], 1885 March 13. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 647861131 ...

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...

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...

McRae, D. K. (Duncan Kirkland), 1820-1888

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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...