Autograph inscription of Albert Taylor Bledsoe [manuscript], 1850 December 25.

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Autograph inscription of Albert Taylor Bledsoe [manuscript], 1850 December 25.

Albert Taylor Bledsoe, Dec. 25, 1850 to his friend, Susan I. Sparrow, autograph inscription in Rufus Wilmot Griswold's "Poets and Poetry of England, in the nineteenth century."

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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...