Lawrence O'Bryan Branch

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Lawrence O'Bryan Branch

Lawrence O'Bryan Branch , (born November 28, 1820 in Enfield , Halifax County , North Carolina , †  September 17, 1862 in Raleigh , North Carolina) was an American politician, member of the US Congress and brigadier general of the Confederate States of America in the Civil War .

Life

After normal school years he received a preparatory course from a private tutor in Washington , then went to the Bingham Military Academy in North Carolina, then moved to the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and graduated in 1838 from Princeton College , now Princeton University in New Jersey . He then went to Nashville , Tennessee , where he studied law, was also a publisher and brought out a newspaper. In 1840 he moved to Tallahassee , Florida , where he was also admitted to the bar in the same year and fought in the Second Seminole War in 1841 .

In 1852 he moved to Raleigh , North Carolina, opened a law practice again, was a member of the Democratic Party into politics and became president of the Raleigh & Gaston Railroad Co . As a Democrat, he was elected to the United States House of Representatives three times in a row, from 1855 to 1861, and was appointed Treasury Secretary by then US President James Buchanan on December 2, 1860 . Branch refused, however, and instead joined the Confederate Army in May 1861 . Here, too, he quickly made a career, was appointed brigadier general in the same year and got his own brigade in the division of General Hill in the corps of General "Stonewall" Jackson .

On September 17, 1862, Branch was killed as commanding the 4th Brigade at the Battle of Antietam .

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 (Ed.): Encyclopedia of the Confederacy. Simon & Schuster, New York NY et al. 1993, ISBN 0-13-275991-8 .
  • 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 .

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SURNAME Branch, Lawrence O'Bryan
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American politician, Confederate General in the Civil War
DATE OF BIRTH November 28, 1820
PLACE OF BIRTH Enfield , Halifax County , North Carolina
DATE OF DEATH September 17, 1862
Place of death Raleigh , North Carolina