Collett Leventhorpe, the English Confederate : the Life of a Civil War General, 1815-1889
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 trea
eBook, English, 2006
McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers, Jefferson, 2006
collective biographies
1 online resource (301 pages)
9780786483242, 0786483245
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Cover; Acknowledgments; Contents; Preface ; 1. English Roots: Ancestry, Youth and the 14th Foot, ca. 1600-1842 ; 2. To America: Rutherfordton and the Quest for "Eldorado," 1843-1861 ; 3. "The Best Drilled Regiment," 1861-1862; 4. Pettigrew, Pennsylvania and Prison, 1863-1864 ; 5. In the Service of His State, 1864-1865 ; 6. Post-Bellum Years: Wanderings, Reconstruction Politics and the Seeker of Fortunes, 1865-1889 ; 7. Epilog: A Confederate Hero's Day, May 11, 1896 ; Appendix I. The Leventhorpes of East London. Appendix II. Some Courts-Martial During Col. Leventhorpe's Command of the 11th NC Appendix III. Regimental Orders for Changes in the Cape Fear District Command, September, 1862 ; Appendix IV. Personal Effects of Four Men Killed at the Battle of White Hall, December 16, 1862 ; Appendix V. Poems by General Leventhorpe ; Appendix VI. "General Collett Leventhorpe," an Address by Col. Edmund Jones, Raleigh, May 11, 1896 ; Chapter Notes ; Bibliography ; Index
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