Collett Leventhorpe, the English Confederate: The Life of a Civil War General, 1815-1889This 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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... First, we are so grateful to our friends on the other side of the “big pond,” who in absolutely every instance have been wonderful, giving and patient. In our preface, we will note in more detail our special indebtedness to Arthur Teape ...
... first families of the section: in public a›airs, war, wealth and culture, they were leaders as were no others. Following the Yadkin River northeast a few miles up Hwy 268, and atop a hill to the left, there's a little white church ...
... first and foremost a soldier: entering His Majesty's 14th Regiment of Foot at the tender age of seventeen, he spent ten years in the British Army rising to the rank of Captain. Later, he would serve the Confederacy and his adopted state ...
... first such attempt at a life of Leventhorpe, the authors make no pretensions to absolute completeness or accuracy. Much still remains to be learned which neither time nor wherewithal nor “lady luck” allowed that we might discover. In ...
... First Day (200¡), and David G. Martin's Gettysburg July 1 (1995), have of course been indispensable. We could not have spent so much time absorbed in Gen. Leventhorpe's life without becoming enamored of our subject. But throughout our ...
Contents
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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 |