Collett Leventhorpe, the English Confederate: The Life of a Civil War General, 1815-1889McFarland, 23 Agu 2014 - 300 halaman This is the story of Collett Leventhorpe (1815-1889), an Englishman and former captain in the 14th Regiment of Foot. Leventhorpe came to North Carolina about 1843, settled there, and later served the Confederacy as a colonel in the 34th and 11th N.C. and brigadier general commanding the Home Guard in eastern North Carolina. Though he trained as a physician at the College of Charleston in the late 1840s, he never practiced and was a restless man, endlessly in search of fortune--before the war in the gold fields of North Carolina and Georgia, and after it in the pursuit of lost estates, art treasures and inventions. But he excelled first and foremost as a Confederate soldier. As a field commander he was never defeated in battle, and his record was marred only by his own rejection of a much deserved but very late promotion to CSA brigadier. He lies buried in the beautiful Happy Valley section of Caldwell County. |
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... Finally, Ossie and Mary Betty Kearney were gracious hosts during our weekend stay at the Benjamin W. Best Country Inn and Carriage House near Snow Hill, N.C., when we ventured forth to see the sites of the Battle of White Hall and ...
... very encouraging, and they are all very dear to us. Now that this project is finally done, hopefully they won't have to hear us talk about Leventhorpe for a while! ... the race is not to the swift, nor the Acknowledgments vii.
... Finally, too, as the marker says, he was an author, or more accurately a poet. It was perhaps here, in this “avocation in the clouds,” that Collett Leventhorpe came closest to disclosing his true self. For, as the nom de plume “de ...
... finally, Leventhorpe's own War letters. Though the current whereabouts of the originals of this last source are unknown, Leventhorpe's wife fortunately transcribed excerpts which now reside in the Military Collection at the North ...
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Rutherfordton and the Quest for Eldorado | 34 |
The Best Drilled Regiment 18611862 | 61 |
Pettigrew Pennsylvania and Prison 18631864 | 90 |
In the Service of His State 18641865 | 136 |
Wanderings Reconstruction Politics | 162 |
A Confederate Heros Day May 11 1896 | 204 |
Some CourtsMartial During | 210 |
Regimental Orders for Changes in | 220 |
Poems by General Leventhorpe | 226 |
General Collett Leventhorpe an Address | 232 |
Chapter Notes | 241 |
Bibliography | 273 |
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