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Collett Leventhorpe, the English Confederate

J. Timothy Cole | Bradley R. Foley
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Brigadier
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College of Charleston
CSA
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Physician

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  • ISBN 9780786426492
  • Weight: 413g
  • Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
  • Publication Date: 28 Nov 2006
  • Publisher: McFarland & Co Inc
  • Publication City/Country: US
  • Product Form: Paperback
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This is the story of Collett Leventhorpe (1815-1889), an Englishman and former captain in the 14th Regiment of Foot. Leventhorpe came to North Carolina about 1843, settled there, and later served the Confederacy as a colonel in the 34th and 11th N.C. and brigadier general commanding the Home Guard in eastern North Carolina. Though he trained as a physician at the College of Charleston in the late 1840s, he never practiced and was a restless man, endlessly in search of fortune--before the war in the gold fields of North Carolina and Georgia, and after it in the pursuit of lost estates, art treasures and inventions. But he excelled first and foremost as a Confederate soldier. As a field commander he was never defeated in battle, and his record was marred only by his own rejection of a much deserved but very late promotion to CSA brigadier. He lies buried in the beautiful Happy Valley section of Caldwell County.
About Bradley R. Foley | J. Timothy Cole
J. Timothy Cole is a librarian at Greensboro Public Library and an archivist at Guilford College. He lives in Greensboro, North Carolina. Bradley R. Foley is a librarian at Randolph County Public Library and is editor of The Guilford Genealogist. He lives in Greensboro, North Carolina.

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