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	CWGC :: Casualty Details
		Son of Percy and Elizabeth Seddon, of Worthington, Lancashire.
	www.cwgc.org /cwgcinternet/casualty_details.aspx?casualty=2103065 (9 words)

	James Alexander Seddon (July 13, 1815-August 19, 1880)
		James Alexander Seddon was born to Thomas Seddon (1776-October 6, 1831) and Susan Pearson Alexander in Falmouth, Stafford County, Virginia on July 13, 1815.
		Seddon held the position longest, primarily for his diplomacy skills in dealing with Davis personally as well as his handling of dissenting commanders and Anti-Davis bureaucrats.
		Seddon is buried in Hollywood Cemetery in Richmond, Virginia.
	www.csawardept.com /history/Cabinet/Seddon (343 words)

	M238 Gary (Martin Witherspoon) Papers
		James Alexander Seddon (1815-1880) graduated from the law school of the University of Virginia and began a successful and popular practice in Richmond.
		Seddon recommends the promotion of Colonel Gary to "Brigadier General in the Provisional Army of the Confederate States of America to command a new Brigade in (the) Department of Richmond to rank from" ________ (date not entered).
		Seddon was elected to the First Confederate Congress, and on November 21, 1862, he was named Secretary of War, a position which he held until February 16, 1865.
	www.lib.usm.edu /~archives/m238text.htm (447 words)

	James Seddon - TheBestLinks.com - American Civil War, August 19, Confederate States of America, July 13, ...
		James Alexander Seddon (13 July, 1815–19 August, 1880), born in Falmouth, Stafford County, Virginia, was an American lawyer and politician who was appointed as Secretary of War for the Confederate States of America by Jefferson Davis in the American Civil War.
		James Seddon, American Civil War, August 19, Confederate States of America...
		Seddon attended the peace convention held in Washington in 1861, which attempted to devise a means of preventing the American Civil War, and in the same year, he attended the Provisional Confederate Congress.
	www.thebestlinks.com /James_Seddon.html (197 words)

	James Alexander Seddon
		SEDDON, James Alexander, lawyer, born in Falmouth, Stafford County, Virginia, 13 July, 1815 ; died in Goochland county, Virginia, 19 August, 1880.
		Seddon was of a frail constitution, and, owing to his delicate health, his early education was much neglected.
		Thomas Seddon, his father, who was first a merchant and then a banker, was descended from John Seddon, of Lancashire, England, who settled in Stafford county, Virginia, in colonial days.
	www.famousamericans.net /jamesalexanderseddon (546 words)

	TIMELINE: RECORD OF ACTIVITY - CAMP SUMTER
		Confederate Secretary of War James A. Seddon orders Captain W. Sidney Winder to meet with Georgia Governor Joseph E. Brown at the state capitol in Milledgeville to choose a place in Americus or Ft. Valley area for the establishment of a new Confederate prisoner of war camp.
		At a time that 18,000 inmates are guarded by 1,200 troops, Secretary of War James A. Seddon transfers several Confederate regiments from Camp Sumter to combat duty in Atlanta, aiding the Southern resistance against Union Major General William T. Sherman, but weakening the security of Andersonville.
		General and Commander of the Confederate Army of Northern Virginia Robert E. Lee writes Confederate Secretary of War James A. Seddon, recomending that Union military prisoners held near Richmond, Virginia be transferred in a state further south where food and supplies are more abundant.
	www.angelfire.com /ga2/Andersonvilleprison/diary.html (7134 words)

	Dahlgren Affair - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Benjamin." Lee was then instructed to take the papers to the War Department where they were received by Secretary of War James A. Seddon.
		Seddon decided to release the documents publicly and sought Davis' approval to do so.
		The Richmond newspapers were contacted for a conference at the War Department and given copies of the orders, which were published the next morning on March 5.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Dahlgren_Affair (1116 words)

	James Seddon
		James Seddon was born in Falmouth, Virginia, on 13th July, 1815.
		Seddon was a member of the peace convention held in Washington in 1861 that attempted to devise a means of preventing the American Civil War.
		It was eventually decided to charge Seddon, General Robert Lee, and several other Confederate generals and politicians with "conspiring to injure the health and destroy the lives of United States soldiers held as prisoners by the Confederate States".
	www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk /USACWsneddon.htm (292 words)

	Lee's Cold Harbor OR
		JAMES A. After a sharp encounter with the Fifth Army Corps (Warren's) and Torbert's division of cavalry, General R. Anderson, with the advance of the army, repulsed the enemy with heavy slaughter and took possession of the Court-House.
		JAMES A. About noon to-day the enemy approached the Telegraph bridge over the North Anna.
		General Fitzhugh Lee's division occupies the south side of the Chickahominy as far as Long Bridge, with pickets extending across to the James.
	www.civilwarhome.com /leecoldharbor.htm (2256 words)

	Army
		Frederic James seems to have greatly appreciated the Sunday services which the Rev. Trumbull conducted in the Columbia prison as well as the reading materials which the Minister was able to supply to James and other prisoners.
		Frederic James became associated with Henry Clay Trumbull when they were both prisoners of war in the Confederate prison at Columbia, S.C. James was interred there from September 14 until November 14, 1863.
		James records that Trumbull left the prison on November 6 "for the North".
	www.andersonvillediary.com /army.htm (2388 words)

	Official website of the Prime Minister of New Zealand
		James Edward FitzGerald and Thomas Spencer Forsaith are regarded by some historians as having headed up Governments from the dates 14 June 1854 to 2 August 1854 and 31 August 1854 to 2 September 1854 respectively.
		Richard John Seddon in 1899 started to use the title Prime Minister almost exclusively and his successor in 1906 William Hall-Jones was the first person to be officially appointed to such a position.
		The terms Premier and Prime Minister were both used from 1869 to the turn of the century but Premier was the more common and official title of the Head of Government.
	www.primeminister.govt.nz /oldpms/index.html (746 words)

	Official Records : Page 984 N. C., VA., W. VA., MD., PA., ETC. Chapter XXXIX.
		Honorable JAMES A. Secretary of War, C. I sent my aide down to Bottom's Bridge this morning, to report the condition of the road and flats beyond the bridge.
		[James A.] Reid says that the road now not being used, would be passable for a few guns and wagons, but would be impassable for a train.
		Honorable JAMES A. Secretary of War, C. When I reached my tent last night, I found two notes, one from General Elzey and one from General Cooke, stating that the Yankees had gone back.
	ehistory.osu.edu /uscw/library/or/045/0984.cfm (307 words)

	Chronicles of Oklahoma
		James H. Gardner presented to the Society a large sectional map of the Chisholm Trail, on January 26, 1939.
		Grant Foreman gave a plat of Fort Davis, a Confederate garrison in 1862, showing the location of buildings, of a well, and of a prehistoric Indian mound which was used for a lookout and flagstaff.
		Oklahoma City is observing the fiftieth anniversary of the opening of "Old Oklahoma" through the cooperation of churches, newspapers, the chamber of commerce, and the schools.
	digital.library.okstate.edu /Chronicles/v017/v017p087.html (2308 words)

	This Week in the Civil War May 03,1863
		- JAMES A SEDDON: I arrived this evening, finding the enemy's force between this place and General Pemberton, cutting off the communication.
		Beauregard balks at Seddon's instructions and even enlists the aid of Charles MacBeth, mayor of Charleston, who writes: "Let me respectfully...request you to reconsider the order to send more troops from the defenses of this city." Seddon is not persuaded by these pleas.
		SEDDON, Secretary of War: It becomes my melancholy duty to announce to you the death of General Jackson.
	www.civilweek.com /1863/may1063.htm (4497 words)

	SEDDON, James Alexander (1815-1880) Bibliography
		Curry, Roy W. “James A. Seddon, A Southern Prototype.” Virginia Magazine of History and Biography 63 (1955): 123-50.
		O’Brien, Gerald F.J. “James A. Seddon, Statesman of the Old South.” Ph.D. diss., University of Maryland, 1963.
	bioguide.congress.gov /scripts/bibdisplay.pl?index=s000220 (35 words)

	Handbook of Texas Online: HAMMAN, WILLIAM HARRISON
		Seddon responded by dispatching him as a messenger to the Trans-Mississippi Department.
		He remained in Texas and was appointed on December 5, 1863, aide-de-camp to Col. James B. Likins, commander of the First Brigade, Second Division, Texas State Troops.
		for a mission to return him to Texas, and Secretary of War James A.
	www.tsha.utexas.edu /handbook/online/articles/HH/fha40.html (715 words)

	The Political Graveyard: Index to Politicians: Secrest to Seelbach
		Seddon, James Alexander (1815-1880) — also known as James A. Seddon — of Virginia.
	politicalgraveyard.com /bio/secrest-seel.html (726 words)

	This Week in the Civil War February 08,1863
		JAMES A. SEDDON, Secretary of War: - SIR: I think it very important to increase the strength of all our armies to the maximum by the opening of the next campaign....By the return of last month...you will perceive that our strength is not much increased by the arrival of conscripts.
		JAMES A. SEDDON, Secretary of War: Everything is in the utmost confusion on the North Carolina Railroad, and I can get no satisfactory answer from the Wilmington and Weldon road about transportation....The State holds a controlling interest in both.
		Such a line if completed, would give the Confederacy "a third railway from Richmond southward, lying safely between the exposed Weldon Road on the east and the line through the uncertain East Tennessee on the west." Unfortunately, North Carolina Governor Zebulon Vance opposes the new line.
	www.civilweek.com /1863/feb0863.htm (3508 words)

	U.Va. Top News Daily
		But another widespread response was to kill them, and one can almost say that was official policy: the Confederate Secretary of War James A. Seddon said, "We ought never to be inconvenienced by such prisoners.
		James McPherson tells of the response by Union generals to the Confederates putting captured black soldiers to work on fortifications under enemy fire: Union generals put an equal number of captured Confederates to work under enemy fire, and the practice stopped.
		2 James McPherson, Battle Cry of Freedom (New York: Ballantine, 1989), p.
	www.virginia.edu /topnews/lincoln_retaliation.html (2076 words)

	Africans in America/Part 3/List & Inventory of Negroes on Plantation...
		Wilton was owned by James Alexander Seddon and James Coles Bruce, both of Virginia, and Dr. William Webb Wilkins of Louisiana.
		Seddon served in the U.S. Congress and was Secretary of War for the Confederacy, under President Jefferson Davis.
		Most of the Bruce family plantations were in Virginia and North Carolina, except for these two owned in partnership with Seddon and Wilkins.
	www.pbs.org /wgbh/aia/part3/3h503.html (288 words)

	Guide Introduction: Records of Ante-Bellum Southern Plantations–Series J:
		In a letter dated 29 December, James A. Seddon, Confederate secretary of war, wrote to Edmund Wilcox Hubard that he was enclosing printed suggestions for manufacture of nitre.
		Govan." In a letter to Edmund Wilcox Hubard from James A. Seddon at Richmond dated 6 October Seddon invited him to attend a political meeting.
		James Thruston Hubard died in 1812, and there are papers relating to the settlement of his estate and his family.
	lexisnexis.com /cispubs/guides/southern_hist/plantations/plantj10.htm (10531 words)

	James Alexander Seddon, Secretary War, Confederacy, died in 1880 July 13 in History
		James Alexander Seddon, Secretary War, Confederacy, died in 1880 July 13 in History
		James Alexander Seddon, Secretary War, Confederacy, died in 1880
	www.brainyhistory.com /events/1815/july_13_1815_47240.html (51 words)

	Boat-burner's in the Official Records
		Seddon will do nothing without Congressional action, so I have been engaged for the last two weeks in getting up a bill that will cover my case; at last it has met his approval and will to-day go to the Senate, thence to the House in secret session.
		The castings have all been completed some time, and the coal is so perfect that the most critical eye could not detect it.
		SIR: I have had the honor to receive the letter of the Secretary of the Treasury to the President, dated January 9, with your indorsement, dated 11th.
	www.civilwarstlouis.com /boatburners/boatburnersinOR.htm (1420 words)

	Robert Mercer Taliaferro Hunter (21 April 1809-18 July 1887)
		After the fall of Richmond, he was arrested on 07 May 1865 and imprisoned with Campbell, James Alexander Seddon (13 July 1815-19 August 1880), and George Alfred Trenholm (25 February 1807-09 December 1876) at Fort Pulaski, near Savannah, Chatham County, Georgia.
		Robert Mercer Taliaferro Hunter was born to James Hunter (14 March 1774-February 1826) and Maria Garnett (22 July 1777-14 August 1811) at "Mount Pleasant", near Loretto, Essex County, Virginia on 21 April 1809.
		On 03 February 1865, with Vice-President Stephens and Assistant Secretary of War John Archibald Campbell (24 June 1811-12 March 1889), Hunter was a member of the failed Hampton Roads Peace Conference.
	www.csawardept.com /history/Cabinet/Hunter (498 words)

	Guide Introduction: Records of Ante-Bellum Southern Plantations–Series M:
		Peyton Grymes (undated and 1849-1852), James L. Jones (1858-1859), Henry Grey Latham (1868), James Hunter Minor (1850, 1852, and 1854), Philip Clayton Slaughter (1854), Thomas Towles Slaughter (1849 and 1851), and Edmund P. Taliaferro (1861-1862); and Stribling's Springs, Augusta County, Virginia (1857).
		John Jones (bears notes of James Lyons); a certificate, 1831, issued by Samuel Swartwout (by William J. McMaster) and Mordecai Manuel Noah to Baldwin and Forbes of New York City, concerning the importation of wine (bears U.S. revenue stamp); and lines of verse.
		Frances Ann Taylor Douglass Waddell for 45.75 acres in Hanover County, Virginia, horses, and a slave (bears letter of James Walker Douglass to James Gray and affidavits of James Walker Douglass [witnessed by Benjamin Darst], James Gray, William Pollard, and Mrs.
	www.lexisnexis.com /academic/guides/southern_hist/plantations/plantm4.asp (9561 words)

	Lacy, Beverley Tucker - Lucas Family Papers: Civil War manuscripts at the Virginia Historical Society
		Also in section 1 are commissions, 1863–1864, signed by James Alexander Seddon (1815–1880), issued to Lee as lieutenant colonel, major, colonel, and brigadier general in the Confederate army.
		A letter, 2 June 1863, to James Power Smith (1837–1923) from Beverley Tucker Lacy (1819–1900) of Richard Stoddert Ewell's staff concerning Ewell's desire to have Smith join his staff as assistant adjutant general.
		Also included are copies of letters, 1864–1886, in Latrobe's possession concerning the Appomattox campaign and Robert E. Lee's and James Longstreet's postwar requests for information from Latrobe regarding Civil War military operations.
	www.vahistorical.org /CWG/l.htm (2968 words)

	Life of Brigadier General John McCausland
		Moreover, James A. Seddon, the Confederate Secretary of War, said McCausland's official report of the Cloyd Mountain Campaign was "clear and unpretending." The conservative President, Jefferson Davis, described it as "satisfactory."111 McCausland was on May 24, made a brigadier general.112
		Major James W. Sweeney's battalion of the Thirty-sixth Virginia moved in advance of the party and kept the road clear.
		He at once sent this information to Johnson who was encamped upon and picketing the roads leading to Romney, with orders to prepare at once for this emergency, to strengthen his pickets, to mount and form his command near the ford of the South Branch of the Potomac.
	www.wvculture.org /history/journal_wvh/wvh4-1.html (16291 words)

	NARA - Prologue - Prologue: Selected Articles
		James Dunwoody Bulloch, The Secret Service of the Confederate States in Europe, or How the Confederate Cruisers Were Equipped (1884, reprint 1959), pp.
		In 1868, Reverdy Johnson, Adams's successor as U.S. minister to the Court of St. James, concluded a convention that arranged for arbitration of the individual claims against Great Britain.
		But the Senate did not ratify the Johnson-Clarendon convention because it dropped from consideration the indirect or national claims involving theoretical prolongation of the war by un-neutral British actions.
	www.archives.gov /publications/prologue/2001/fall/confederate-fleet-2.html (3250 words)

	Henry Thomas Harrison, Longstreet's scout
		But in November of 1861 he was discharged and eventually became a spy for CSA Secretary of War James Seddon.
		However, in 1986 historian James O. Hall identified this elusive man. Researching the Civil War records at the National Archives, Hall found conclusive evidence that Longstreet's scout was Secret Agent H. Harrison.
		The identity of General James Longstreet's famous scout, known only as "Harrison" remained a mystery for more than a century.
	members.aol.com /spyharrisn/home (1363 words)

	Thompson, John Reuben
		He spent two years with Seddon and then returned to the University of Virginia to study law with Henry St. George Tucker.
		When he returned to Richmond this time, he found that Seddon was serving a term in Congress.
		He was educated at the University of Virginia where he studied ancient languages, natural philosophy, mathematics, and chemistry and received his degree in 1842.
	www.wvu.edu /~lawfac/jelkins/lp-2001/thompson_john_r.html (422 words)

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