The South in the Building of the Nation (Volume 11); A History of the Southern States Designed to Record the South's Part in the Making of the - Livres de poche

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: William Cowper, a lawyer of prominence, and SamUel Davies, a clergyman and historical writer. ALEXANDER, Edward Porter, soldier, engineer and planter; b. Washington, Ga., May 26, 1835. Alexander was graduated at West Point in 1857 and assigned to the engineers. He served three years as an instructor at West Point and a year on the Pacific coast. In 1861 he entered the Confederate service and became brigadier-general and chief of artillery of Longstreet 's corps. From 1866-70 Alexander was professor of engineering and mathematics at Sonth Carolina College. From 1871-92 he was president and general manager of various railroads, among them the Louisville and Nashville, the Central of Georgia, the Georgia Railroad, etc. He was a member of the capitol commission of Georgia (1883-88) and has often served as advisory engineer on important projects. He now has a rice plantation. He is the author of Railway Practice and Military Memoirs of a Confederate (1907), a critical study of the principal campaigns of the War of Secession. ALFRIEND, Frank H., editor and author: b. about 1830. He was editor of the Southern Literary Messenger, Richmond, Va., and was especially known for The Life of Jefferson Davis (1868), a comprehensive account of the causes and merits of the war, with the life of Davis as a nucleus rather than the substantial subject-matter of the book. This work takes rank with Dabney's Defence of Virginia. ALLAN, William, Confederate soldier and military writer: b. Winchester, Va., Nov. 12, 1837; d. McDonough, Md., 1889. He attended the Academy in Winchester, and after teaching a year entered the University of Virginia in 1857, graduating as master of arts in 1860. The next year he taught in Georgia. Entering the Confederate service at the beginning of the war, he became c...