Michael Walsh Cluskey

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Michael Walsh Cluskey ( 1832 in Savannah , Georgia , † January 13, 1873 in Louisville , Kentucky ) was an American politician and officer in the Confederate Army .

Career

Michael Walsh Cluskey was born in Chatham County several years before the economic crisis hit in 1837 . Nothing further is known about his youth or his private life. At some point he moved to Tennessee . From 1857 to 1859 he was postmaster for the US House of Representatives . After the outbreak of the civil war , he enlisted in the Confederate Army. Cluskey was promoted to colonel . He served on the staffs of the following Confederate generals: William B. Bate (1826–1905), Preston Smith (1823–1863), Alfred Jefferson Vaughan junior (1830–1899) and George Washington Gordon (1836–1911). Cluskey resigned from the Confederate Army in 1864 to take his seat in the Second Confederate Congress , which he held until 1865. He died in Louisville, Jefferson County in 1873 . His body was then transferred to Washington, DC , where he was buried in Mt. Olivet Cemetery .

Works

  • 1857: The political text-book, or encyclopedia: Containing everything necessary for the reference of the politicians and statesmen of the United States

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Gale Cengage Learning: Pulpit politics , ISBN 9781432817268 , p. 430
  2. ^ Albert Gallatin Brown: Speeches, messages, and other writings of the Hon. Albert G. Brown: a senator in Congress from the state of Mississippi , JB Smith & Co., 1859, p. 9
  3. ↑ Michael Walsh Cluskey: The political text-book, or encyclopedia: Containing everything necessary for the reference of the politicians and statesmen of the United States , C. Wendell, 1857
  4. ^ Edward Isidore Sears, David Allyn Gorton, and Charles H. Woodman, The National Quarterly Review , Volume 1, Pudney & Russell, 1860, p. 570
personal data
SURNAME Cluskey, Michael Walsh
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American politician and officer in the Confederate Army
DATE OF BIRTH 1832
PLACE OF BIRTH Savannah , Georgia
DATE OF DEATH January 13, 1873
Place of death Louisville , Kentucky