Confederate Veterans in Northern California: 101 Biographies

by Jeff Erzin

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781476681030
Publisher:	McFarland & Company, Incorporated Publishers
Publication date:	06/09/2020
Pages:	225
Product dimensions:	7.00(w) x 10.00(h) x 0.46(d)
Age Range:	18 Years

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.

Table of Contents

Preface 1

Introduction 3

The Veterans 5

James Seale Austin 5

Alvis Early Averett 6

John Randolph Avis 8

Almareane Wellborn Baker 9

Peter Vernon Batte 10

Edward Derrel Beard 12

Isaac Bell and Tyree Bell (Father and Son) 14

Calhoun C. Benham 16

Walter Walke Blow 19

Edgar Daniel Boone 21

James Otey Bradford 22

Samuel Houston Brooks 24

Telemachus Cambridge Brown 25

Louis Von Buchholtz 27

John Wesley Clanton 29

Charles Clement Clay 30

George Blake Cosby 31

Richard William Dancy Crump 33

Arthur Sinclair Cunningham 35

Henry Brevard Davidson 37

Henry Potter De Veuve, Sr. 38

John Andrew DeVilbiss 41

Henry "Harry" St. John Dixon 43

Caleb Dorsey 45

Dozier Brothers: Anthony White Dozier, Jr., Edward Charles Dozier, Leonard Franklin Dozier, Peter Cuttino Dozier, and William Gaillard Dozier 47

John Livingston Estill 49

Oliver Perry Evans 51

Edmund Clare Fitzhugh 53

George M. Flournoy 55

Richard Samuel Floyd 56

Robert Chester Foute 57

Edwin Augustus Garrison 59

George Washington Gift 62

Morris Greenwall 63

George Washington Gretter 65

Edward Higgins 67

Horace Antonio Higley 69

Henry St. George Lyons Hopkins 71

Irvine Brothers: Landon C. Irvine and Robert Hugh Irvine 73

James C. Kane 76

John Kolb Law 78

Leconte Brothers: John Eatton Leconte and Joseph Quarterman Leconte 80

John Wickham Leigh 83

Henry Schultz Lubbock 85

Egbert Joseph Martin 87

John Edgar McElrath 89

Edward "Ned" McGowan 91

Lewis David McKissick 93

Thomas Jefferson McQuiddy 95

Thomas Richard Meux 96

John Brown Moore 99

George Washington Mordecai 102

Thomas Pleasant Nelson 105

Edward and Patrick Noble (Father and Son) 106

William Newton Mercer Otey 109

William Wood Porter 112

Pressley Brothers: Harvey Wilson Pressley, James Fowler Pressley, John Gotea Pressley, and William Burrows Pressley 114

William Bond Prichard 117

Robert Hazon Rhodes 119

Miles Carey Selden, Jr. 120

Henry Bloom Shackelford 121

George David Shadburne 123

Shearin Brothers: Mark Harvel Shearin, Jr., and William Shearin 126

Rufus Shoemaker 128

George William Shreve 129

Robert C. Smith 131

Robert Press Smith, Jr. and Sr. 133

John Snow 136

John Meredith Spencer 138

Waverley Thompson Stairley 139

John Adolph Steinbeck 140

Edward Bernard Stonehill 142

Thomas Porcher Stoney 143

Charles Fletcher Taylor 145

David Smith Terry, Sr. 147

John Thompson 149

Harry Innes Thornton, Jr. 151

James Ellis Tucker 153

Henry Clay Tupper 156

Tazewell Tyler 159

Joseph P. Vaughn 160

James Richard Waggener 161

William Thomas Welcker 163

Milton Edward White 165

Richard Owen Whitehead 166

Peter Singleton Wilkes 168

Ambrose Rucker Woodroof (a.k.a. John Miller) 170

Edmund Platoff Zane 171

Notes 175

Bibliography 209

Index 215