Lieutenant General CSA Richard Strother Taylor

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One of three individuals to be promoted to Lt. General without formal military training. The other two were Lt. General Nathan Bedford Forrest, and Lt. General Wade Hampton.

Colonel - July ??, 1861

Brigadier General - October 21, 1861

Major General - July 28, 1862

Lieutenant General - April 8, 1865

Major Commands:

District of West Louisiana

Department of Alabama and Mississippi

Most of Taylor's contemporaries, subordinates, and fellow generals make mention many times of his military prowess. Nathan Bedford Forrest commented that "He's the biggest man in the lot. If we'd had more like him, we would have licked the Yankees long ago." "Dick Taylor was a born soldier", asserted a close friend. "Probably no civilian of his time was more deeply versed in the annals of war." Stonewall Jackson and Richard S. Ewell frequently commented on their conversations with Taylor. Ewell stated that he came away from his conversations with Taylor more knowledgeable and impressed with the amount of information Taylor possessed.

Lt General Nathan Bedford Forrest commented about Taylor, "He's the biggest man in the lot. If we'd had more like him, we would have licked the Yankees long ago.

As for Taylor himself, he modestly attributed his progress as commanding officer during the war to two habits:

I early adopted two customs, and adhered to them throughout the war. The first was to examine at every halt the adjacent roads and paths, their direction and condition; distances of nearest towns and cross-roads; the country, its capacity to furnish supplies, as well as general topography, etc., all of which was embodied in a rude sketch, with notes to impress it on memory. The second was to imagine while on the march an enemy before me to be attacked, or to be received in my position, and make the necessary dispositions for either contingency. My imaginary manoeuvres were sad blunders, but I corrected them by experience drawn from actual battles, and can safely affirm that such slight success as I had in command was due to these customs.

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After Gens. Robert E. Lee and Joseph E. Johnston had surrendered, Taylor realized that further resistance in his department would lead only to its destruction, he surrendered to Major Gen. E.R.S. Canby on May 4 at Citronelle, Alabama. It was the last major surrender east of the Mississippi River. His men were paroled 4 days later. He had proved himself an able and courageous leader against superior forces. WGA

He visited England after the war and was given much attention. He moved to New Orleans, married and had three daughters.

After the war, Taylor returned to New Orleans penniless. He became an effective advocate of Southern rights during the Reconstruction period. He wrote his memoirs, "Destruction and Reconstruction" in 1879. It was published a week before his death.

After surrendering his department to Canby on May 4, 1865, Taylor took up residency in New Orleans and tried to revive his finances by securing a lease of the New Basin Canal from the state. He also garnered the support of a wealthy New York City attorney, Samuel Latham Mitchell Barlow, one of the Democratic party's most effective powerbrokers. At Barlow's bidding Taylor negotiated with presidents Andrew Johnson and Ulysses S. Grant and also lobbied members of Congress, all in an attempt to advance democratic principles, mainly by gaining lenient treatment for the South. Increasingly distrustful of Radical Republicans, Taylor finally cursed Reconstructionqv as a loathsome evil, with Johnson as its inept victim and Grant as its corrupt handmaiden. The continual racial and political strife, much of which Taylor witnessed personally in New Orleans, gradually pushed him along with many other genteel conservatives into a reactionary position that lent tacit approval to the corrupt, blatantly violent backlash by Southern white Democrats against freedmens' efforts to assert their new voting rights under Republican sponsorship. Shortly after his wife's death in 1875, Taylor moved with his three daughters to Winchester, Virginia. Intimately involved in New Yorker Samuel J. Tilden's Democratic presidential campaign in 1876, Taylor vainly attempted to influence congressional maneuverings in the wake of the disputed election returns, a national crisis ultimately diffused by the pervasive breakdown of solidarity among Democratic leaders. WGA

Place of birth present-day St. Matthews, Kentucky Place of death New York City, New York Place of burial Metairie Cemetery, New Orleans Allegiance United States of America

Confederate States of America Service/branch Confederate States Army Rank Lieutenant General

Battles/wars American Civil War: First Battle of Bull Run Shenandoah Valley Campaign Seven Days Battles Red River Campaign Battle of Mansfield Battle of Pleasant Hill

Other work Louisiana state senate (1855-1861)

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Richard Taylor, Confederate general, only son of Margaret Mackall (Smith) and Gen. Zachary Taylor, was born at the Taylor family home, Springfield, near Louisville, Kentucky, on January 27, 1826, and named for his grandfather, a Virginian who had served as a Revolutionary War officer. He attended private schools in Kentucky and Massachusetts before being admitted to Yale College in 1843. He graduated two years later, having merited no scholastic honors but instead concentrated on reading widely in classical and military history. He agreed to manage the family cotton plantation in Jefferson County, Mississippi, and in 1850 he persuaded his father (now President Taylor by virtue of his election in 1848) to purchase Fashion, a large sugar plantation in St. Charles Parish, Louisiana. After Zachary Taylor's untimely death in July 1850, Taylor inherited Fashion. Steadily he increased its acreage, improved its sugar works (at considerable expense), and expanded its labor force to nearly 200 slaves, making him one of the richest men in Louisiana. But the freeze of 1856 ruined his crop, forcing him into heavy debt with a large mortgage on Fashion, a fragile condition underwritten largely by his generous mother-in-law Aglae Bringier, a wealthy French Creole matriarch whose daughter, Myrthe, Taylor had married in 1851. (They eventually had two sons and three daughters.) Yet he still projected an image of aristocratic affluence by racing thoroughbred horses at the famous Metairie Track and appearing at the gaming tables of the exclusive Boston Club in New Orleans.

Taylor was elected to the Louisiana Senate in 1855; he was affiliated first with the Whig party, then the American (Know-Nothing) party, and finally the Democratic party, veering cautiously toward a strong anti-Republican yet reluctant proslavery position. His sense of nationalistic, Whiggish conservatism, although thoroughly laced with a Southern disdain for agitating abolitionists, also made him distrustful of demagogic Southern fire-eaters' demands for disunion. Both of these volatile expressions of the nation's expansive democracy Taylor found repulsive and ultimately tragic. As a rueful delegate from Louisiana to the 1860 national Democratic Convention in Charleston, he witnessed the party's fatal splintering along sectional lines. There he attempted, but failed, to forge a less radical course for the South, arguing for a compromise between stunned moderates and implacable secessionists. Now viewing war as inevitable, Taylor willingly served as a delegate to the Louisiana secession convention in January 1861 and voted with the convention's majority for immediate secession. Yet his prophetic pleas to protect the state from military invasion went largely unheeded by overconfident fellow secessionists. He retired in disgust to his plantation, recognizing the Confederacy's fundamental lack of unity and even predicting eventual defeat, but he remained willing to serve if called. He was elected colonel of the Ninth Louisiana Infantry, assumed command in July, and took the regiment to Virginia. Surprisingly, in late October he received promotion to brigadier general by order of President Jefferson Davis (his brother-in-law by Davis's first marriage to one of Taylor's sisters). Although devoid of formal military training or combat experience, Taylor enjoyed his brigade's strong respect along with a reputation as a consummate student of military history, strategy, and tactics. "Dick Taylor was a born soldier," asserted a close friend. "Probably no civilian of his time was more deeply versed in the annals of war." Taylor was placed in command of the Louisiana Brigade, which included Maj. Chatham Roberdeau Wheat's notorious battalion of "Louisiana Tigers," and proved vital to Maj. Gen. Thomas J. "Stonewall" Jackson's brilliant Shenandoah Valley campaign during the spring of 1862. Jackson used Taylor's brigade as an elite strike force that set a crippling marching pace and dealt swift flanking attacks. At Front Royal on May 23, again at Winchester on May 25, and finally at the climactic battle of Port Republic on June 9, he led the Louisianans in timely assaults against strong enemy positions. He was promoted to major general on July 25, 1862, at thirty-six years of age the youngest Confederate officer to attain such rank to date. He suffered terribly from chronic rheumatoid arthritis, however, and so was given command of the District of West Louisiana and charged with reviving his home state's severely deteriorated war effort. Almost from the start he feuded with his superior, Gen. Edmund Kirby Smith, commander of the Trans-Mississippi Department, mainly regarding Taylor's desperate need for troops to defend Louisiana's civilian population against destructive federal forays. Smith also thwarted Taylor's desire to free New Orleans from federal occupation, a goal that received strong, although temporary, approval and encouragement from Secretary of War George Wythe Randolph and President Davis. During 1863 Taylor directed an effective series of clashes with Union forces over control of lower Louisiana, most notably at Fort Bisland and Franklin (April 13–14), Brashear City (June 23), and Bayou Bourbeau (November 3).

In the early spring of 1864, after withdrawing up the Red River Valley in the face of Maj. Gen. Nathaniel P. Banks's invasion force of more than 25,000 men, Taylor became appalled at the devastation inflicted by the enemy upon Louisiana's heartland. On April 8, with an army of no more than 9,000 men, mostly Louisianans and Texans, he ignored Smith's explicit instructions to delay, instead attacking Banks's disorganized column a few miles below Mansfield near Sabine Crossroads. The Confederates swept the terror-stricken Yankees through the thick pine forest and then pursued them southward to Pleasant Hill. There, the next day, the federals withstood Taylor's assaults, forcing him to retire from the field. But Banks's generals compelled him to withdraw to Alexandria on the Red River. Taylor was outraged when Smith abruptly detached Walker's Texas Division for fighting in Arkansas, and he was left with only 5,000 men to lay siege to Alexandria. Taylor repeatedly demanded Walker's Division in order to crush Banks and liberate New Orleans, but Smith stubbornly refused. Finally Banks's army escaped from Alexandria on May 13. Convinced of Smith's arrogant ambition and incompetence, Taylor exploded with a series of insulting, insubordinate diatribes against Smith and submitted his resignation. Although unwilling to admit his strategic blunder in failing to allow Taylor to keep Walker's Division, Smith harbored no personal grudge. Taylor, however, never forgave Smith. Despite his heroic status for having saved most of Louisiana and virtually all of Texas from military conquest, Taylor viewed the Red River Campaign as a profound disappointment.

Preferring to ignore the Taylor-Smith feud, on July 18 President Davis placed Taylor in command of the Department of Alabama, Mississippi, and East Louisiana and promoted him to lieutenant general, thus making him one of only three non-West Pointers who achieved such high rank in the South. From September 1864 until war's end Taylor struggled to defend his department, receiving scant cooperation from state governors, legislatures, and local militia units, while also contending with Jefferson Davis's poor coordination of the Confederacy's cumbersome bureaucracy, especially its divisive departmental system. Fortunately, Taylor enjoyed the benefit of Nathan Bedford Forrest's superb cavalry, which resisted federal incursions and supported the embattled Army of Tennessee by raiding enemy supply lines. Forrest showed genuine admiration for Taylor's leadership, remarking candidly, "He's the biggest man in the lot. If we'd had more like him, we would have licked the Yankees long ago." In January 1865 Taylor briefly assumed command of the shattered ranks of the Army of Tennessee after Gen. John Bell Hood's catastrophic defeats at Franklin and Nashville several weeks earlier. As the Southern cause rapidly disintegrated during the spring, Taylor saw his own department gutted by Brig. Gen. James H. Wilson's massive cavalry raid through Alabama and Maj. Gen. Edward R. S. Canby's triumphant siege of Mobile. Taylor had "shared the fortunes of the Confederacy," as he later recalled, having "sat by its cradle and followed its hearse." Indeed, the war had inflicted harsh personal sacrifices: he lost his plantation to destruction and confiscation by federal soldiers; his two young sons died of scarlet fever as wartime refugees; and his wife suffered so severely that she lapsed into a slow decline that ended with her premature death in 1875.
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After surrendering his department to Canby on May 4, 1865, Taylor took up residency in New Orleans and tried to revive his finances by securing a lease of the New Basin Canal from the state. He also garnered the support of a wealthy New York City attorney, Samuel Latham Mitchell Barlow, one of the Democratic party's most effective powerbrokers. At Barlow's bidding Taylor negotiated with presidents Andrew Johnson and Ulysses S. Grant and also lobbied members of Congress, all in an attempt to advance democratic principles, mainly by gaining lenient treatment for the South. Increasingly distrustful of Radical Republicans, Taylor finally cursed Reconstruction as a loathsome evil, with Johnson as its inept victim and Grant as its corrupt handmaiden. The continual racial and political strife, much of which Taylor witnessed personally in New Orleans, gradually pushed him along with many other genteel conservatives into a reactionary position that lent tacit approval to the corrupt, blatantly violent backlash by Southern White Democrats against freedmens' efforts to assert their new voting rights under Republican sponsorship. Shortly after his wife's death in 1875, Taylor moved with his three daughters to Winchester, Virginia. Intimately involved in New Yorker Samuel J. Tilden's Democratic presidential campaign in 1876, Taylor vainly attempted to influence congressional maneuverings in the wake of the disputed election returns, a national crisis ultimately diffused by the pervasive breakdown of solidarity among Democratic leaders. On April 12, 1879, Taylor died at Barlow's home in New York City, succumbing to severe internal congestion resulting from his long battle with rheumatoid arthritis. Although Taylor had never demonstrated strong religious convictions, an Episcopal clergyman was present to minister to him. He was buried in a family crypt in Metairie Cemetery, New Orleans. Only a few weeks before his death he completed his memoirs, Destruction and Reconstruction, one of the most literate and colorful firsthand accounts of the Civil War era.

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Richard Taylor was a brother-in-law of Jefferson Davis and also a son of President Zachary Taylor. He owned a large sugar plantation and was a Louisiana senator - first as a Whig, then a Know-Nothing, and then a Democrat. At first the Senator hoped to avoid secession. Eventually, however, Taylor felt that secession was inevitable and served as a delegate to the Louisiana secession convention. Related Battles

In 1861, Taylor helped Braxton Bragg train soldiers at Pensacola, Florida. He was then elected Colonel of the 9th Louisiana Infantry which fought at Bull Run. In October 1861, he was appointed Brigadier General of the Eighth Brigade (Louisiana soldiers) under Richard Ewell. One of the regiments was the famed “Wheat’s Tigers” - known for hard fighting as well as rough living.

Taylor was skilled at leading his men at Front Royal, First Winchester and Port Republic (in the Shenandoah Valley). The Louisianans then fought in the Seven Days’ Battles. Unfortunately, Taylor suffered from serious rheumatoid arthritis. This left him incapacitated at times.

Promoted to Major General, Taylor was sent to command the district of West Louisiana. Northern activities had left that region crippled; Taylor’s job was to organize forces to defend the state. Union goals at the time included establishing control of Louisiana in order to maintain a presence in Texas. Shreveport was their target. After an unsuccessful attempt to recapture New Orleans, Taylor embarrassed US General Nathaniel Banks during the 1864 Red River Campaign. Banks suffered defeat at Mansfield (April 8) and Pleasant Hill (April 9) forcing Banks to abandon his plans to take Shreveport.

Because of disagreements with his superior officer, Gen. Edmund Kirby Smith, Taylor asked to be relieved of command. Instead, he was promoted to Lieutenant General and sent to defend Mobile and Selma, Alabama. Before long Taylor was given command of John Bell Hood’s Army of Tennessee. On May 8, 1865, He was forced to surrender his army to US General Edward Canby. This was the last major force to surrender east of the Mississippi. Taylor was paroled on May 13, 1865.

After the war, Taylor was vocal in his opposition to northern Reconstruction. He published a memoir entitled Destruction and Reconstruction in 1879, shortly before his death in New York City. Taylor was buried in New Orleans.

After the war, Richard Taylor persuaded his friend Joseph L. Brent to stay in Louisiana. Brent married Rosella, the daughter of Duncan Kenner and Nanine Bringier.

Myrthe, the fifth daughter, m. Gen. Dick, TAYLOR, of Fashion plantation, President TAYLOR'S only son, and was survived by three daughters, two of whom intermarried with the STAUFFER family of New Orleans *http://findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=11085 *http://ironbrigader.com/2013/05/13/quick-facts/ *http://la-cemeteries.com/Notables/Civil%20War/Taylor,%20Richard/Tay... *http://www.ourfamtree.org/browse.php?fid=39839

Richard Strother Taylor is listed in R. Whitney Tucker's "The Descendants of the Presidents", Delmar Printing Company, Charlotte, N.C., (©1975) Chapter XII. Zachary Taylor. Chapter XII, page 103,Second generation, Descendant XII-6 (Richard Taylor, born near Louisville (Ky.) January 27, 1826;died in New York April 12, 1879. Graduated from Yale, 1845. Served in the Mexican War. Private Secretary to President Taylor, 1849-1850. Maintained a plantation in Louisiana; member of the Seate, 1857-60. Delegate to the Democratic National Convention, 1860, and to the Louisiana secession convention. Served in the Confederate Army, 1861-65 (ultimately as lieutenant-general). He married , February 10, 1851, (Louise Marie) Myrthe Bringier of New Orleans. She died in 1875. Children: XII-11, Louise Margaret. XII-12, Elizabeth (Myrthe), XII-13, Zachary ,II, XII-14, Richard , Jr. , XII-15, Myrthe Bianca.)

Lt. Gen. Richard Strother Taylor, (CSA) is your second great aunt's grandfather.

Charles William Schwartz, V→ Charles William Schwartz, IV your father → Charles William Schwartz, III his father → Preston Schwartz his father → Albert Franciscus Schwartz his brother → Myrthe Celeste Schwartz (Stauffer) his wife → Elizbeth Myrthe Stauffer (Taylor) her mother → Lt. Gen. Richard Strother Taylor, (CSA)

1 Zachary TAYLOR b: 24 NOV 1784 d: 9 JUL 1850

 + Margaret MacKall SMITH b: 21 JUN 1788 d: 14 AUG 1852

2 Anne Margaret Mackall TAYLOR b: 9 APR 1811 d: DEC 1875

     + Robert Crooke WOOD b: 23 SEP 1799 d: 28 MAR 1869

3 John Taylor WOOD b: 13 AUG 1830 d: 19 JUL 1904
+ Lola MACKUBIN b: 1834 d: 1909
4 Anne Mackall WOOD b: 1858
4 Zachary Taylor WOOD b: 1860 d: 15 JAN 1915
+ Frances Augusta DALY
5 Stuart Zachary Taylor WOOD b: 1889
+ Gertrude PETERSON b: 1900
6 Donald Zachary Taylor WOOD b: 1918 d: 1944
+ Migonne CASTONGUAY
7 Living WOOD
6 Hershel Theodore Taylor WOOD b: 1924 d: 1950
6 John Taylor WOOD III
6 Frances Helen Taylor WOOD
6 Marjorie Lola Taylor WOOD
5 John Taylor WOOD II b: 1901 d: 1930
4 Elizabeth Simms WOOD b: 1862
4 Lola Mackubin WOOD b: 1864
4 Robert Crooke WOOD IV b: 1867 d: 1884
4 Eleanor Mackubin WOOD b: 1869 d: 26 JAN 1953
+ Duncan John d'Urban CAMPBELL b: 1856 d: 1920
5 Duncan John MacLeod CAMPBELL b: 1895 d: 1916
5 Archibald Bruce Duchesnay CAMPBELL b: 1899
+ Miriam Alberta HARROP b: 1904
6 Duncan Archibald Edmund CAMPBELL
+ Isabel Jean MACKEY
6 Bruce John Charles CAMPBELL
+ Jacqueline Louise Ennette Katherina BURNS
7 Karen Louise CAMPBELL
6 Charles Carroll Wood CAMPBELL b: 1903
+ Nellie Kate ROBBINS b: 1905
7 Living CAMPBELL
7 Living CAMPBELL
6 Lola Henrietta CAMPBELL b: 1908
5 Charles C. Wood CAMPBELL b: 1903
5 Lola Henrietta CAMPBELL b: 1908
4 John Taylor WOOD b: 1871
4 George Mackubin WOOD b: 1872 d: 1927
+ Mary BUSS
4 Blandina von Grabow WOOD b: 1873
4 Mary Catherine Hammond WOOD b: 1875 d: 1898
4 Charles Carroll WOOD b: 1876 d: 1899
3 Robert Crooke WOOD , Jr. b: 4 APR 1832 d: 4 DEC 1900
+ Mary Wilhemine TRIST b: 22 DEC 1838 d: 3 AUG 1914
4 Trist Bringier WOOD b: 1868 d: 1953
4 Mary Wilhemine WOOD b: ABT 1870
4 Richard Taylor WOOD b: ABT 1871 d: BEF 1880
4 Nina Sarah WOOD b: ABT 1872
4 Marie Rosella WOOD b: ABT 1875
+ William Edwin BRICKELL , Jr. b: 24 MAY 1874
5 William Edwin BRICKELL III b: ABT 1909 d: 19 JAN 1948
4 Robert Crooke WOOD III b: BET 1876 AND 1877 d: BEF 1880
4 Zachary Taylor WOOD b: ABT 1878
+ Helen MCGLOYN
5 Helen WOOD
+ Beatrice THOMAS
3 Blandina Dudley WOOD b: 9 JAN 1834 d: 7 SEP 1892
+ Edward BOYCE d: 28 FEB 1862
4 William BOYCE
+ Caro BOLLES
+ Guido VON GRABOW
4 Ernst Romanus Guido VON GRABOW
3 Sarah Knox WOOD b: 21 NOV 1835 d: 28 FEB 1915
2 Sarah Knox TAYLOR b: 6 MAR 1814 d: 15 SEP 1835

     + Jefferson Finis DAVIS b: 3 JUN 1808 d: 6 DEC 1889

2 Octavia Pannell TAYLOR b.16 AUG 1816 d. 8 JUL1820

2 Margaret Smith TAYLOR b: 27 JUL 1819 d: 22 OCT 1820

2 Mary Elizabeth TAYLOR b. 20 APR 1824 d. 25 JUL 1909

     + William Wallace Smith BLISS b: 17 AUG 1815 d: 5 AUG 1853

+ Philip Pendleton DANDRIDGE b: 2 OCT 1817 d: 28 OCT 1881
2 Richard Strother TAYLOR II b: 27 JAN 1826 d: 12 APR 1879

     + Louise Margaret Murthe BRINGIER b: 28 JAN 1834 d: 16 MAR 1875

3 Louise Margaret TAYLOR b: 6 JAN 1852 d: 2 SEP 1901
3 Betty TAYLOR b: 8 JUL 1854 d: 23 OCT 1936
+ Walter Robinson STAUFFER b: MAR 1854
4 Myrthe Celeste STAUFFER b: 16 JUL 1882 d. 7 NOV 1962
+ Albert Francis SCHWARTZ b: 21 OCT 1870 d 15 DEC 1917
5 Wilhelmina SCHWARTZ b: 1907
5 Marie Louise SCHWARTZ b: 1908
+ Bernard MCCLOSKEY
6 Living MCCLOSKEY
6 Living MCCLOSKEY
5 Harry Preston SCHWARTZ b: 10 OCT 1911 d: NOV 1982
+ Eugenie CHAVANNE b: 14 SEP 1917 d: 15 APR 2001
6 Eugenie Chavanne SCHWARTZ b. 20 SEP 1951 d. 30 DEC 2015
5 Walter Stauffer SCHWARTZ b. 30 AUG 1916 d. 14 MAR 1932
4 Alice B. STAUFFER b: OCT 1884
+ Louis HARDIE
5 Walter S. HARDIE
+ Shirley BAEHR
6 Living HARDIE
+ Dorothy THOMAS
6 Living HARDIE
6 Living HARDIE
5 Betty F. HARDIE
+ Benedetto CAPOMAZZA
6 Living CAPOMAZZA
6 Living CAPOMAZZA
4 Anita STAUFFER b: MAR 1886
+ John A. MCILHENNY
5 Walter Stauffer MCILHENNY
5 John Stauffer MCILHENNY
4 Richard Taylor STAUFFER b: AUG 1887
4 Marie Celeste STAUFFER b: AUG 1891
+ Harry BURNETT
5 Peter BURNETT
+ Norma HUGHES
6 Living BURNETT
6 Living BURNETT
4 Walter A. STAUFFER b: JUN 1893
4 William Joseph STAUFFER b: JUL 1896
+ Elizabeth B. WHITE
3 Zachary TAYLOR II b: 28 JUN 1857 d: 27 APR 1863
3 Richard TAYLOR III b: 23 JUN 1860 d: 20 MAY 1863
3 Myrthe Bianca TAYLOR b: 29 NOV 1864 d: 1942
+ Isaac Hull STAUFFER d: BEF 1900
4 Isaac STAUFFER b: MAR 1885
+ Helene MAURY
5 Myrthe STAUFFER
+ Eugene TRUAX
5 Helene STAUFFER
+ Alvin HERO
6 Living HERO
6 Living HERO
6 Living HERO
6 Living HERO
6 Living HERO
5 Marie Louise STAUFFER
+ Warren G. POSEY
6 Living POSEY
4 Louise STAUFFER b: SEP 1886

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Civil War Confederate Lieutenant General. He was the son of President Zachary Taylor, nephew of Union Brigadier General Joseph Pannell Taylor and brother-in-law of Confederate President Jefferson Davis. During the Mexican War, he served as a military secretary to his father and after President Taylor's death in July 1850, he inherited the family's Louisiana sugar plantation and became one of the richest men in Louisiana. In 1855, he was elected to the Louisiana Senate and served until the outbreak of the Civil War, when Jefferson Davis who was married to his sister Sarah before her death, appointed him Colonel in command of the 9th Louisiana Infantry. He fought at the Battle of Bull Run and was promoted Brigadier General in October 1861. He commanded a Louisiana Brigade in the Shenandoah Valley Campaign, Seven Days Battle and was promoted the youngest Major General in the Confederate Army in July 1862. For the next two years, he participated in conflicts to include Siege of Vicksburg, plus the battles of Red River, Mansfield and Pleasant Hill. In April 1864, he was promoted Lieutenant General commanding the Army of Tennessee, in campaigns until he surrendered his corps to Union General Edward Canby in Mississippi, on May 8, 1865. After the war, he wrote his memoirs which is one of the most credited reports of the Civil War and was active in Democratic Party politics.

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