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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... History, made us a print of the painting of Leventhorpe in uniform. John O. Hawkins, Director of the Caldwell Heritage Museum, allowed us to us a picture of Leventhorpe's “Holly Lodge.” Gwen Erickson, head of the Friends Historical ...
... history. Best known of all is Fort Defiance, the home of one of the region's most prominent figures during the ... historical marker reads: COLLETT LEVENTHORPE ... ... ... Confederate general, physician, author. Born in England, settled ...
... historical marker never alludes: the pursuit of fortune which he sought but never quite found in the gold fields of the old South, the auction galleries of New York City, risky inventions and lost estates. Gen. Leventhorpe is not ...
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 |