biography
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| lived:
| (1817–76)
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| biography:
| US soldier, born in Warrenton, North Carolina,USA. He trained at West Point (1837) and served in the Seminole, Frontier, and Mexican wars, then left the army (1856) to run a plantation in Louisiana. When Civil War broke out he commanded his state's militia, and led the Army of Tennessee into Kentucky in the summer of 1862, but withdrew after the inconclusive battle of Perryville in October. He won a resounding victory over Union forces at Chickamauga (Sep 1863) but his defeat at Chattanooga two months later cost him his command. Dour, irritable, and unpopular with his fellow soldiers, he later became a military adviser to President Davis. After the war he served successively as public works commissioner in Alabama and as chief engineer of the Gulf, Colorado and Santa Fe Railroad. |
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