Pierce Manning Butler Young

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Pierce MB Young

Pierce Manning Butler Young (born November 15, 1836 in Spartanburg , South Carolina , †  July 6, 1896 in New York City ) was a five-time Congressman for Georgia and Major General of the Army of the Confederate States of America in the Civil War .

Life

Young's family moved to Bartow County, Georgia, when he was young . There Young completed military training at the Georgia Military Institute . 1857 Yount wrote to the US Military Academy in West Point one, but he left the academy a few months before graduating after the withdrawal of Georgia from the Union. So Young began his service on March 2, 1861 as 2nd lieutenant in the artillery of the Confederate Army . Quickly promoted to Lieutenant Colonel , Young was part of the Wade Hamptons Brigade in JEB Stuart's Cavalry Corps . After Young was honored in the Maryland campaign , he rose to colonel on November 1, 1862 and on September 28, 1863 to brigadier general. In 1864 he commanded Hampton's former division and in November of that year he was sent to the defense of Atlanta , which was threatened by the troops of the Northern States under General William T. Sherman . In this capacity he stopped Sherman's advance and was temporarily promoted to Major General under Hampton on November 30, 1864.

After the war, Young started a successful career as a politician. In the years 1868 to 1875 he was elected five times for Georgia to the United States House of Representatives and traveled as a delegate to the National Congresses of the Democratic Party in 1872, 1876 and 1880 .

In 1893 he succeeded Romualdo Pacheco as the United States' ambassador to Honduras and Guatemala . Young died in New York City on July 6, 1896 and was buried near his old plantation near Cartersville .

See also

literature

  • Ezra J. Warner: Generals in Gray - Lives of the Confederate Commanders . Louisiana State University Press, Baton Rouge (LA) 1959
  • James Spencer: Civil War Generals . Greenwood Press Inc., Westport (CO) 1986

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personal data
SURNAME Young, Pierce Manning Butler
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American Congressman and Major General in the Civil War
DATE OF BIRTH November 15, 1836
PLACE OF BIRTH Spartanburg , South Carolina
DATE OF DEATH July 6, 1896
Place of death New York City