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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... reflected the temper of the age in which he lived, it is hard to say. But he was a restless soul who lived a life of dreams, and it has been a pleasure to be in his company. 1 English Roots: Ancestry, Youth and the 14th Foot, ca. 6 Preface.
... company with Captain Silas Titus (1622–1704).12 It was Titus who suggested the macabre spectacle of exhumation, public display and decapitation of the corpses of Cromwell, Ireton and Bradshaw, following the restoration of Charles II.13 ...
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 |