Dudley McIver DuBose

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Dudley McIver DuBose

Dudley McIver DuBose (* 28. October 1834 in Shelby County , Tennessee , †  2. March 1883 in Washington , Georgia ) was an American politician and Brigadier General of Confederate in the Civil War .

Life

After normal school days, he attended the University of Mississippi at Oxford in east Mississippi . He graduated from Lebanon, Tennessee, with a law degree in 1856 and was admitted to the bar in 1857. That same year he opened a law firm in Memphis .

Civil War

From 1860 he worked in Augusta (Georgia), where he joined the Confederate Army at the outbreak of the Civil War . He fought, among other things, in the seven-day battle from June 25 to July 1, 1862, at the Second Battle of Bull Run on August 28 and 30, 1862 and at the Battle of Antietam on September 17, 1862. In January In 1863 DuBose was appointed commander of the 15th Georgia Volunteer Infantry Regiment, participated in the Battles of Gettysburg July 1-3, 1863, at Chickamauga on September 19-20, 1863, and in the Wilderness on 5-6. May 1864. In November 1864 he was promoted to brigadier general and got his own command in the division of Major General Joseph Brevard Kershaw , with whom he took part in the Appomattox campaign , which lasted from March 29 to April 9, 1865 . On April 6, three days before the defeat of Appomattox Court House , DuBose was captured and jailed for several months.

politics

After his release, he and his wife, who died a year later, settled in Washington, Georgia. DuBose went back to work as a resident attorney, took on Robert Toombs , former Secretary of State and Confederate general, as his partner, and became involved in politics. As a member of the Democratic Party , he was elected to the US House of Representatives in the 42nd Congress for the period from March 4, 1871 to March 3, 1873 as a representative of Georgia . After losing re-election, DuBose continued to run his law firm until his death in 1883.

See also

literature

  • David J. Eicher, The Civil War in Books: An Analytical Bibliography , University of Illinois, 1997, ISBN 0-252-02273-4 .
  • Richard N. Current, Encyclopedia of the Confederacy (1993) (4 vol.) ( ISBN 0132759918 )
  • John H. Eicher & David J. Eicher, Civil War High Commands , Stanford University Press, 2001, ISBN 0-8047-3641-3 .
  • Ezra J. Warner, Generals in Gray: Lives of the Confederate Commanders , Louisiana State University Press, 1959, ISBN 0-8071-0823-5 .

Web links

personal data
SURNAME DuBose, Dudley McIver
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American politician and Confederate general in the Civil War
DATE OF BIRTH October 28, 1834
PLACE OF BIRTH Shelby County , Tennessee
DATE OF DEATH March 2, 1883
Place of death Washington , Georgia