Francis Stebbins Bartow
Francis Stebbins Bartow (born September 6, 1816 in Savannah , Georgia , † July 21, 1861 in Manassas , Virginia ) was an American lawyer , politician ( Whig Party ) and officer in the Confederate Army .
Career
Francis Stebbins Bartow, son of Frances Lloyd Stebbins and Theodosius Bartow, graduated from the University of Georgia and then studied law at Yale Law School in New Haven , Connecticut . He then returned to Savannah, where he began practicing law in 1837 after receiving his license to practice law. Bartow was an advocate of slavery . In 1860 he owned 89 slaves, the majority of whom lived and worked on his plantation on the Savannah River in Chatham County .
Bartow married Louisa Berrien in 1844, the daughter of his mentor John MacPherson Berrien , a former US Senator and United States Attorney General .
During the 1840s, Bartow served two terms in the Georgia House of Representatives and one term in the Georgia Senate in the 1850s . In 1856 he was appointed captain of Savannah's Oglethorpe Light Infantry ( militia ). The following year he ran unsuccessfully for a seat in the US House of Representatives for the first constituency of Georgia. Bartow then took part in 1861 as a delegate to the Georgia Secession Convention and in the same year sat as a deputy in the Provisional Confederate Congress .
After the outbreak of the civil war , Bartow decided to fight for the newly founded Confederate States . He then went to Virginia with the Oglethorpes , where he was later appointed Colonel in the Georgia Eighth Infantry Regiment . Until July 1861 he was in command of a brigade , which he led in a battle at the First Battle of Manassas . On July 21, he succumbed to the wound he sustained in an attack on a Union battery on Henry Hous Hill . His body was then transferred back to Savannah, where it was interred in Laurel Grove Cemetery .
Web links
- The Political Graveyard
- Francis Stebbins Bartow in The New Georgia Encyclopedia (with picture)
- Francis Stebbins Bartow in the database of Find a Grave (English)
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| SURNAME | Bartow, Francis Stebbins |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American lawyer, politician, and officer in the Confederate Army |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 6, 1816 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Savannah , Georgia |
| DATE OF DEATH | July 21, 1861 |
| Place of death | Manassas , Virginia |