Richard Lee Turberville Beale

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Richard Lee Turberville Beale

Richard Lee Turberville Beale (* 22. May 1819 on the estate Hickory Hill in McLean , Virginia , †  21st April 1893 ) was a politician , lawyer and Brigadier General of Confederate in the Civil War .

Life

Beale received his training at Northumberland Academy and Rappahannock Academy (both in Virginia) and Dickinson College in Carlisle , Pennsylvania . He then studied until 1837 law at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville . He was admitted to the bar in 1839 and opened a small law firm in Hague, Westmoreland County.

At about the same time he joined the Democratic Party and was also professionally involved in politics. From March 4, 1847 to March 3, 1849 he was a member of the House of Representatives of the United States ; He initially waived a renewed candidacy. After several political offices, he was elected to the Virginia Senate in 1858 .

At the beginning of the American Civil War, he joined the Confederate Army with the rank of lieutenant of cavalry. Beale was promoted to captain and major in a short time and was given command of Camp Lee near Hague, on the Potomac River . He was serving under Colonel William Henry Fitzhugh Lee , commander of the 9th Cavalry Regiment, when the latter was promoted to Brigadier General, and advanced as a colonel . On April 16, 1863, he was honored for bravery by General James Ewell Brown Stuart and fought a few weeks later from March 1st to 3rd. July 1863 at the Battle of Gettysburg . After the death of General John Randolph Chambliss, Jr. on August 16, 1864, Beale took over his brigade and was appointed brigadier general on February 6, 1865.

After the civil war he continued to run his office. In February 1879 he moved again as a representative of Virginia in the US House of Representatives in Washington , where he remained until March 3, 1881. After the end of his political career, he worked exclusively as a practicing lawyer.

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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