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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... Gettysburg National Military Park, Gettysburg, PA. We cannot remember everyone, of course, but many individuals were very helpful. First, we are so grateful to our friends on the other side of the “big pond,” who in absolutely every ...
... Gettysburg section of the book and o›er his comments. Don Torrence took the time to show us Poplar Point Landing, for which we were most appreciative. Elizabeth Dunn and her associates in Perkins Library's Special Collections, Duke ...
... Gettysburg. So, how shall we justify a biography? One reason is the need to more fully acknowledge foreign-born Confederates. As Ella Lonn argued many years ago in her carefully researched Foreigners in the Confederacy (1940), non ...
... Gettysburg—The 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 ...
... Gettysburg, he nonetheless excelled as a commander and, except perhaps for a ill-thought adventure undertaken by cavalry under his command on the Blackwater River in Virginia in late 1862, and a surprise attack at Butler's Bridge, near ...
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 |