Capt. Napoleon Bonapart French, (CSA)

Napoleon Bonapart French
BIRTH 15 Jan 1811
Giles County, Virginia, USA
DEATH 12 Dec 1899 (aged 88)
Princeton, Mercer County, West Virginia, USA
BURIAL
Oakwood Cemetery
Princeton, Mercer County, West Virginia,

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/5196226/napoleon-bonapart-french

Children
Elizabeth Jane French Smith
1831–1905

David French
David French
1833–1899

Rufus French
1837–1853

Mary Douglass
Mary E French Douglass
1840–1929

Harriet Adair
Harriet French Adair
1844–1932

Edward French
Edward H. French
1846–1924

Eliza French
Eliza B. French
1850–1930

Napoleon B. French was the son of David A. French and Mary DINGESS. He married Jane ARMSTRONG, about 1832. He was elected to the Legislator.

They had eight children: David, Rufus, Mary E. Harriet A. Edward H. (an Attorny) John Thompson, Eliza B. and Jane M. "Jennie"

French, Napoleon B. BATTLE UNIT NAME: 30th Battalion, Virginia Sharpshooters (Clarke's) SIDE: Confederacy COMPANY: B
SOLDIER'S RANK IN: Captain SOLDIER'S RANK OUT: Captain ALTERNATE NAME: FILM NUMBER: M382 ROLL 20 PLAQUE NUMBER: NOTES: Battle Unit Note - (1 Battn Va Sharpshooters War Side Note - Clarke's Battn Va Sharpshooters)

Col. Napoleon B. French was the son of David A. French and Mary DINGESS. He married Jane ARMSTRONG, about 1832. He was elected to the Legislator.

They had eight children:
David, Rufus, Mary E. Harriet A. Edward H. (an Attorny) John Thompson, Eliza B. and Jane M. "Jennie"
Napoleon Bonaparte French, m. Jane Armstrong, daughter of Colonel Thomas T. Armstrong. Napoleon was captain of French's Mercer County Battery of the Confederate forces and later commissioned colonel. He served as a Virginia State Senator to the 1860-61 Assembly and defeated his brother, William H. French, as Mercer County representative to the Secession Convention. Both brothers had been Whigs all their lives, but William H., a short time prior to secession had united with the Democratic party, so incensing his former political friends that they collaborated with Napoleon's friends to defeat him. The Whigs were strongly Union in sentiment, the Democrats in favor or secession. Napoleon did his best to help the Secession Convention vote against secession, but, when the state went with the Confederacy, he fought for the same cause as William did. Napoleon inherited all the land of Peter Dingess, his grandfather, by way of his Uncle Charles. He was married to Jane Armstrong, daughter of Col. Thomas T. and granddaughter of Col. Martin Armstrong. They had daughter Eliza Jane French according to email Starsound@aol.com.

[courtesy frenchfamilyassoc.com; Mara French, Sutter Creek, CA]

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