Confederate States Army Officer. After graduating from Allegheny College, he was admitted to the Alabama bar in 1855 and established a legal practice in Haynesville, Alabama. A Brigadier General in the Alabama militia prior to the Civil War, he became a Lieutenant Colonel in the 14th Alabama when that company was organized in 1861. Having seen action in the Battles of Yorktown, Seven Pines, and Gaines' Mill with the 14th, he was leading a charge against a Union battery at at the Battle of Frazier's Farm when he was struck and killed.
Confederate States Army Officer. After graduating from Allegheny College, he was admitted to the Alabama bar in 1855 and established a legal practice in Haynesville, Alabama. A Brigadier General in the Alabama militia prior to the Civil War, he became a Lieutenant Colonel in the 14th Alabama when that company was organized in 1861. Having seen action in the Battles of Yorktown, Seven Pines, and Gaines' Mill with the 14th, he was leading a charge against a Union battery at at the Battle of Frazier's Farm when he was struck and killed.
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