Collett Leventhorpe, the English Confederate: The Life of a Civil War General, 1815-1889

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McFarland, Aug 23, 2014 - History - 300 pages

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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Preface
1
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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J. Timothy Cole is a librarian at Greensboro Public Library and an archivist at Guilford College. He lives in Greensboro, North Carolina. Bradley R. Foley is a librarian at Randolph County Public Library and is editor of The Guilford Genealogist. He lives in Greensboro, North Carolina.

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