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. |
Contents
Preface | 1 |
Ancestry Youth and the 14th Foot ca 16001842 | 7 |
Rutherfordton and the Quest for Eldorado 18431861 | 34 |
3 The Best Drilled Regiment 18611862 | 61 |
4 Pettigrew Pennsylvania and Prison 18631864 | 90 |
5 In the Service of His State 18641865 | 136 |
Wanderings Reconstruction Politics and the Seeker of Fortunes 18651889 | 162 |
A Confederate Heros Day May 11 1896 | 204 |
Appendix II Some CourtsMartial During Col Leventhorpes Command of the 11th NC | 210 |
Appendix III Regimental Orders for Changes in the Cape Fear District Command September 1862 | 220 |
Appendix IV Personal Effects of Four Men Killed at the Battle of White Hall December 16 1862 | 223 |
Appendix V Poems by General Leventhorpe | 226 |
Appendix VI General Collett Leventhorpe an Address by Col Edmund Jones Raleigh May 11 1896 | 232 |
Chapter Notes | 241 |
Bibliography | 273 |
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