Lamar Fontaine

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Lamar Fontaine (born October 10, 1841 in Washington County (Texas) , † October 1, 1921 in Clarksdale, Mississippi ) was an American soldier in the Civil War and writer.

The son of a clergyman was named after Mirabeau Lamar by his father and took part in the Civil War on the southern side. In 1908 he published the autobiography My Life and My Lectures , in which he embellished his life in fantastic works. He reported that he had as a child by Comanches been kidnapped and adopted and moved with them to Canada, had traveled to Beijing, lived as buddhic priests in Tibet, is output in North Africa as a Muslim, took part in the Crimean War and was the Czar for for his contribution to the defense of Sevastopol. During the American Civil War he participated in 27 battles and more than 50 skirmishes and was wounded sixty-seven times, so that he often fought on crutches.

He wrote other writings such as Outlines of Southern History (1909) and The Cause and Effect of Ku Klux Klan (1910), in which he presented American history from the position of a partisan of the southern states. He also wrote the poem All Quiet along the Potomac Tonight , which John Hill Hewitt set to one of the most famous songs of the American Civil War.

Works

  • My Life and My Lectures , 1908
  • Outlines of Southern History , 1909
  • The Cause and Effect of Ku Klux Klan , 1910
  • A Short Discourse on the Causes of the Lincoln Invasion
  • Bloody Conquest of the South and Prison Life of One of the Immortal Six Hundred

literature

personal data
SURNAME Fontaine, Lamar
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American writer
DATE OF BIRTH October 10, 1841
PLACE OF BIRTH Washington County, Texas
DATE OF DEATH October 1, 1921
Place of death Clarksdale, Mississippi