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Drawing on six years of research, this book covers the military service and postwar lives of notable Confederate veterans who moved into Northern California at the end the Civil War. Biographies of 101 former rebels are provided, from the oldest brother of the Clanton Gang to the son of a President to plantation owners, dirt farmers, criminals and everything in between.
List of contents
Table of ContentsPreface
Introduction
The Veterans
¿James Seale Austin
Alvis Early Averett
John Randolph Avis
Almareane Wellborn Baker
Peter Vernon Batte
Edward Derrel Beard
Isaac Bell and Tyree Bell (Father and Son)
Calhoun C. Benham
Walter Walke Blow
Edgar Daniel Boone
James Otey Bradford
Samuel Houston Brooks
Telemachus Cambridge Brown
Louis Von Buchholtz
John Wesley Clanton
Charles Clement Clay
George Blake Cosby
Richard William Dancy Crump
Arthur Sinclair Cunningham
Henry Brevard Davidson
Henry Potter De Veuve, Sr.
John Andrew DeVilbiss
Henry "Harry" St. John Dixon
Caleb Dorsey
Dozier Brothers: Anthony White
deleteDozier, Jr., Edward Charles
deleteDozier, Leonard Franklin Dozier,
deletePeter Cuttino Dozier, and
deleteWilliam Gaillard Dozier
John Livingston Estill
Oliver Perry Evans
Edmund Clare Fitzhugh
George M. Flournoy
Richard Samuel Floyd
Robert Chester Foute
Edwin Augustus Garrison
George Washington Gift
Morris Greenwall
George Washington Gretter
Edward Higgins
Horace Antonio Higley
Henry St. George Lyons Hopkins
Irvine Brothers: Landon C. Irvine and Robert Hugh Irvine
James C. Kane
John Kolb Law
Leconte Brothers: John Eatton
deleteLeconte and Joseph
deleteQuarterman Leconte
John Wickham Leigh
Henry Schultz Lubbock
Egbert Joseph Martin
John Edgar McElrath
Edward "Ned" McGowan
Lewis David McKissick
Thomas Jefferson McQuiddy
Thomas Richard Meux
John Brown Moore
George Washington Mordecai
Thomas Pleasant Nelson
Edward and Patrick Noble
delete(Father and Son)
William Newton Mercer Otey
William Wood Porter
Pressley Brothers: Harvey Wilson
deletePressley, James Fowler Pressley,
deleteJohn Gotea Pressley, and William
deleteBurrows Pressley
William Bond Prichard
Robert Hazon Rhodes
Miles Carey Selden, Jr.
Henry Bloom Shackelford
George David Shadburne
Shearin Brothers: Mark Harvel
deleteShearin, Jr., and William Shearin
Rufus Shoemaker
George William Shreve
Robert C. Smith
Robert Press Smith, Jr. and Sr.
John Snow
John Meredith Spencer
Waverley Thompson Stairley
John Adolph Steinbeck
Edward Bernard Stonehill
Thomas Porcher Stoney
Charles Fletcher Taylor
David Smith Terry, Sr.
John Thompson
Harry Innes Thornton, Jr.
James Ellis Tucker
Henry Clay Tupper
Tazewell Tyler
Joseph P. Vaughn
James Richard Waggener
William Thomas Welcker
Milton Edward White
Richard Owen Whitehead
Peter Singleton Wilkes
Ambrose Rucker Woodroof
delete(a.k.a. John Miller)
Edmund Platoff Zane
¿Notes
Bibliography
Index
About the author
Jeff Erzin has spent thirty years in broadcasting as a writer, producer, director, editor, art designer and production manager. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.
