J. Timothy Cole, Bradley R. Foley

Collett Leventhorpe, the English Confederate

The Life of a Civil War General, 1815-1889

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: McFarland
• Seitenzahl: 302
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. November 2006
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 493g
• ISBN-13: 9780786426492
• ISBN-10: 0786426497
• Artikelnr.: 21664396

Autorenporträt

J. Timothy Cole is a librarian at Greensboro Public Library and an archivist at Guilford College. He lives in Greensboro, North Carolina.

Inhaltsangabe

Table of Contents
Acknowledgments     
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     
Appendices
I. The Leventhorpes of East London     
II. Some Courts-Martial During Col. Leventhorpe's Command of the 11th NC
     
III. Regimental Orders for Changes in the Cape Fear District Command,
September, 1862     
IV. Personal Effects of Four Men Killed at the Battle of White Hall,
December 16, 1862     
V. Poems by General Leventhorpe     
VI. "General Collett Leventhorpe," an Address by Col. Edmund Jones,
Raleigh, May 11, 1896     
Chapter Notes     
Bibliography     
Index