Richard Caswell Gatlin

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Richard Caswell Gatlin

Richard Caswell Gatlin (born January 18, 1809 in Lenoir County , North Carolina , † September 8, 1896 at Mount Nebo , Arkansas ) was an officer in the US Army and Brigadier General of the Confederate States of America in the Civil War .

Life

Gatlin was born in 1809 to John S. and Susannah Gatlin, b. Caswell, daughter of Richard Caswell , the first governor (1776–1780) of independent North Carolina. His uncle was William Caswell , a general in the American Revolutionary War . After normal school years he attended the Military Academy in West Point , New York , which he successfully completed in 1832 as the 35th of his class. He then served as an officer in the Seminole Wars , in the Mexican-American War 1846-1848, then in western North America and finally as a major in the 5th US Infantry Regiment from February 1861 in Arkansas.

When the civil war broke out, he resigned his service in the US Army and switched to the Confederate Army , where he was deployed in the defense of the coastal area of ​​North Carolina until 1862 and was promoted to brigadier general during this time. After the loss of Fort Hatteras and the capture of New Berne by the Union Forces, he left active service in September 1862 and became an adjutant and inspector general of the North Carolina government.

After the war, Gatlin went back to Arkansas and became a farmer in Sebastian County . He married Mary A. Gibson, with whom he had a daughter. In 1881 he moved to Fort Smith , Arkansas the county's capital.

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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SURNAME Gatlin, Richard Caswell
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American Army officer and Confederate general in the American Civil War
DATE OF BIRTH January 18, 1809
PLACE OF BIRTH Lenoir County , North Carolina
DATE OF DEATH September 8, 1896
Place of death on Mount Nebo , Arkansas