Lucius Jeremiah Gartrell

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Lucius Jeremiah Gartrell

Lucius Jeremiah Gartrell (born January 7, 1821 in Washington , Georgia , † April 7, 1891 in Atlanta , Georgia) was an American politician , lawyer and brigadier general of the Confederate States of America in the Civil War .

Life

Gartrell was born in Georgia in 1821, the son of a plantation owner. After completing normal school years, he first attended Randolph-Macon College in Ashland , Virginia , then Franklin College , now known as Franklin College of Arts and Sciences , which was then the first building to be built for the University of Georgia in Athens . Gartrell was admitted to the bar in 1842, began practicing and engaged in politics in his hometown of Washington. The following year, he became Attorney General for the Northern District of Georgia. He resigned from office in 1847 when he was elected to the Georgia House of Representatives . In 1856 Gartrell was elected a Democrat to the US House of Representatives and confirmed in office in 1858.

Civil War

In 1861 Gartrell resigned from office and formed the 7th Georgia Volunteer Infantry Regiment, which became part of the Southern Army . He himself was made a colonel . With this unit he took part in the First Battle of the Bull Run on July 21, 1861 . In November 1861 Gartrell was elected to the first Confederate Congress and from then on he was active again in politics, where he also belonged to various committees and was one of the strongest supporters of Jefferson Davis . Around the middle of 1864 he resumed his duties as an officer, formed four regiments of reservists and was appointed brigadier general on August 22, 1864. With these four regiments he stopped Major General William T. Sherman on his march along Georgia's coast to South Carolina , fought successfully at Coosawhatchie and supported William Joseph Hardee at Savannah , where he was badly wounded. He spent his convalescence in Augusta , where he was informed that the war was over.

After the Civil War, Gartrell moved to Atlanta, reopened a law practice and continued to be active in politics. In 1877 he became a member of the Constituent Assembly ("Constitutional Convention") of Georgia. In 1882 he ran for the post of governor , but lost to Alexander Hamilton Stephens , the former Vice President of the Confederate.

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 .

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