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	General Richard Taylor
		Richard Taylor, Confederate general, only son of Margaret Mackall (Smith) and Gen. Zachary Taylor, was born at the Taylor family home, Springfield, near Louisville, Kentucky, on January 27, 1826, and named for his grandfather, a Virginian who had served as a Revolutionary War officer.
		Taylor was elected to the Louisiana Senate in 1855; he was affiliated first with the Whig party, then the American (Know-Nothing) party, and finally the Democratic party,qv veering cautiously toward a strong antiRepublican yet reluctant proslavery position.
		Taylor was outraged when Smith abruptly detached Walker's Texas Division for fighting in Arkansas, and he was left with only 5,000 men to lay siege to Alexandria.
	www.angelfire.com /va3/valleywar/people/taylor.html (1572 words)

	Richard Taylor
		Richard Taylor was born near Louisville, Kentucky on the family farm on January 27, 1826.
		Taylor was a delegate to the controversial Democratic conventions of 1860 and strove to prevent the party's disruption.
		Taylor served with distinction in the Shenandoah Valley campaign during the spring of 1862 but was kept out of the Seven Days Battle by rheumatoid arthritis Recovering within a few weeks, he was promoted to major general and was assigned to command of the District of Western' Louisiana in August 1862.
	www.knowsouthernhistory.net /Biographies/Richard_Taylor (795 words)

	Taylor
		General Richard Taylor, C.S.A. Richard Taylor was born near Louisville, Kentucky.
		Taylor, the son of former general and President "Old Rough and Ready" Zachary Taylor, was educated at schools in Scotland and France.
		Taylor absorbed the remnants of Hood's Army of Tennessee (January 1865), but most of those troops were transferred to General Johnston's command in the Carolinas (February).
	members.tripod.com /r1gate/id21.htm (466 words)

	Richard Taylor (general) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Taylor was promoted to the rank of major general on July 28, 1862, the youngest major general in the Confederacy at the time, and after a brief assignment as a recruiting officer in Louisiana, he was given command of the tiny District of West Louisiana.
		Taylor's plan was to move down the Bayou Teche, capturing the lightly defended outposts and supply depots, and then capturing New Orleans, which would cut off Nathaniel P. Banks's army from their supplies.
		Taylor was given command of the Department of Alabama and Mississippi and commanded the defenses of the city of Mobile, Alabama.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Richard_Taylor_(general) (2186 words)

	Confederate General Richard Taylor (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Taylor was a brother-in-law of President Jefferson Davis, and rumor had it that in the fall of 1861 he was offered the post of quartermaster general of the Confederate army.
		Richard Taylor was forced to fall back before Banks’s Red River expedition in the spring of 1864 but defeated Banks at the Battle of Mansfield, Louisiana, south of Shreveport, on April 8, 1864.
		On January 23, 1865, Taylor was named as successor to John Bell Hood as commander of the remnants of the Army of Tennessee, which had been wrecked by the Federals at Franklin and Nashville.
	stonewall.hut.ru /leaders/taylor.htm (956 words)

	The Battle of Mansfield or Sabine Cross Roads (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Taylor would fight in the Jacksonian fashion and was unconcerned as he began the campaign with barely 7,000 men under his command.
		General Taylor continued his retreat to Pleasant Hill, were he was joined by Brigadier General Thomas Green's cavalry from Texas.
		General Taylor had organize a defensive position with the infantry divisions of the Generals Walker and Mouton, and Bee's cavalry.
	www.1st-texas-cavalry.de /mansf-e.htm (3850 words)

	Philosophy Now
		Richard Taylor was a true epicurean, who met his final days with the equanimity of one who had lived life to the fullest.
		I never took another class from Richard while I was an undergraduate, but when I returned to the Department of Philosophy at Rochester in 1978 as a first-year graduate student, Richard remembered me. He had replaced his trademark classroom cigar with a thermos of tea, and Vanee had long since passed away.
		Richard was a frequent guest of the Philosophy Department at St Bonaventure University.
	www.philosophynow.org /issue44/44taylor.htm (1917 words)

	Random Works of the Web » Blog Archive » Richard Taylor (general) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Richard Taylor was born at the “Springfields” family estate near Louisville, Kentucky.
		Taylor was promoted to the rank of major general on July 28, 1862, and after a brief assignment as a recruiting officer in Louisiana, was given command of the tiny Confederate District of West Louisiana.
		In that capacity he humiliated Union General Nathaniel P. Banks by defeating him in the 1864 Red River Campaign with a smaller force, commanding the Confederate forces in the Battle of Mansfield and the Battle of Pleasant Hill.
	random.dragonslife.org /richard-taylor-general/4535 (648 words)

	This Week in the Civil War April 03, 1864
		Confederate General Richard Taylor, who had been part of the Valley Army which had humiliated "Commissary" Banks in 1862, makes him pay for this decision by routing the Federal Army at Sabine Crossroads and forcing a precipitous retreat to Pleasant Hill.
		General Taylor has received instructions to hold his command in readiness to re-enforce you.
		He commanded a division under Richard Taylor during the Red River campaign and was killed leading the attack which opened the battle at Sabine Crossroads.
	www.civilweek.com /1864/apr0364.htm (6609 words)

	RICHARD TAYLOR, CSA
		Richard Taylor was born on January 27, 1826, at "Springfields," near Louisville, Kentucky.
		Taylor was also the former brother-in-law of future Confederate President Jefferson Davis, and a powerful planter and Louisiana state senator.
		Proving himself an able combat commander, he was promoted to brigadier general on October 21, 1861, major general on July 28, 1862 and lieutenant general to rank from April 8, 1864.
	www.multied.com /Bio/CWcGENS/CSATaylor.html (188 words)

	Richard Taylor (1826-1879)
		Taylor was elected to the Louisiana Senate in 1855; he was affiliated first with the Whig party, then the American (Know-Nothing) party, and finally the Democratic party, veering cautiously toward a strong anti-Republican yet reluctant proslavery position.
		Taylor was placed in command of the Louisiana Brigade, which included Maj. Chatham Roberdeau Wheat's notorious battalion of "Louisiana Tigers," and proved vital to Maj. Gen.
		In January 1865 Taylor briefly assumed command of the shattered ranks of the Army of Tennessee after Gen. John Bell Hood's catastrophic defeats at Franklin and Nashville several weeks earlier.
	www.thelatinlibrary.com /chron/civilwarnotes/taylor.html (1564 words)

	Advanced Dermatology Management, Inc. - Dr. J. Richard Taylor
		Richard Taylor, M.D. is a Board Certified Dermatologist now practicing in Tallahassee.
		Taylor completed medical school at the University of Utah School of Medicine in Salt Lake City, Utah.
		Taylor was named Professor Emeritus of Dermatology and Cutaneous Surgery at the University of Miami upon his retirement in August of 2002.
	www.scacce.com /taylor.html (227 words)

	Mansfield
		This and other tactical blunders on the part of General Banks and a series of successful maneuvers by General Richard Taylor (son of President Zachary Taylor), who commanded the Confederate forces, were decisive factors leading to the final outcome of the battle.
		General Banks did not expect the Confederates to fight until he reached Shreveport and the Union Army became strung out along the narrow road leading to Mansfield.
		This allowed Taylor to deal with his opponents on more equal terms since the Confederate troops were heavily outnumbered.
	members.tripod.com /SouthernRights/mansfield.htm (577 words)

	Richard Taylor
		Richard N. Taylor is a Professor of Information and Computer Sciences at the University of California at Irvine and a member of the Department of Informatics (of which he was chair from its founding in January of 2003 through June, 2004).
		Professor Taylor is the Director of the Institute for Software Research, which is dedicated to fostering innovative basic and applied research in software and information technologies through partnerships with industry and government.
		Taylor was a 1985 recipient of a Presidential Young Investigator Award and in 1998 was recognized as an ACM Fellow.
	www.ics.uci.edu /~taylor (1130 words)

	Appomattox Court House National Historical Park - surrender (U.S. National Park Service)
		General Lee arrived at the Mclean home shortly after 1:00 p.m.
		The terms agreed to by General Lee and Grant and accepted by the Federal Government would become the model used for all the other surrenders which shortly followed.
		In the 2nd meeting General Lee requested that his men be given evidence that they were paroled prisoners - to protect them from arrest or annoyance.
	www.nps.gov /apco/surrender.htm (234 words)

	Handbook of Texas Online:
		Taylor was elected to the Louisiana Senate in 1855; he was affiliated first with the Whig party, then the American (Know-Nothing) party, and finally the Democratic party,
		He was promoted to major general on July 25, 1862, at thirty-six years of age the youngest Confederate officer to attain such rank to date.
		Preferring to ignore the Taylor-Smith feud, on July 18 President Davis placed Taylor in command of the Department of Alabama, Mississippi, and East Louisiana and promoted him to lieutenant general, thus making him one of only three non-West Pointers who achieved such high rank in the South.
	www.tsha.utexas.edu /handbook/online/articles/view/TT/fta31.html (1736 words)

	Magee farm, the last Appomattox opened to public By Ellen Williams Special to The South Alabamian
		Although its age is historically significant, the Magee Farmhouse was the setting for a stellar historical event; for within its parlor Confederate General Richard Taylor met with Union General E.R.S. Canby to work out the details for General Taylor’s surrender of the last Confederate Army east of the Mississippi River.
		On, April 9, General Robert E. Lee had surrendered the Army of Northern Va. to U.S. Grant at Appomattox Courthouse, V. CSA General Joseph E. Johnston surrendered his Army of Tennessee forces to General William T. Sherman at Bennett House near Durham Station, N.C. on April 26.
		General Richard Taylor who shared the fortunes of the Confederacy, later recalled, having "sat by its cradle and followed its hearse." Richard Taylor was the son of President Zachary Taylor and the brother-in-law of President Jefferson Davis.
	www.southalabamian.com /news/2004/0722/News/060.html (492 words)

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		This is the duty imparted to us nearly 100 years ago by General Stephen D. Lee: “To you, Sons of Confederate Veterans, we submit the vindication of the cause for which we fought.
		In his elegant memoir, “Destruction and Reconstruction,” General Taylor recalled the occasion in 1865 when the duty fell to him to surrender the last Confederate army east of the Mississippi River.
		Just as ironic that those of us who today remember General Taylor and his fellow Confederates are denounced as un-American by people whose ideas of “true American principles” are derived not from the Founders, but from radical intellectuals and foreign philosophers whose ideologies were unknown to Washington, Jefferson and Madison.
	home.att.net /~r.s.mccain/scvspeech.html (1257 words)

	Louisiana Civil War Battle Pleasant Hill Red River Expedition
		Major General Richard Taylor, commander of the Confederate forces in the area, decided, without any instructions from his commander General E. Kirby Smith, that it was time to try and stem this Union drive.
		Early on the 9th, Taylor's reinforced forces marched toward Pleasant Hill in the hopes of finishing the destruction of the Union force.
		Taylor planned to send a force to assail the Union front while he rolled up the left flank and moved his cavalry around the right flank to cut the escape route.
	americancivilwar.com /statepic/la/la019.html (872 words)

	A Crisis In Confederate Command: Edmund Kirby Smith, Richard Taylor, And The Army Of The Trans-Mississippi -- book ...
		Richard Taylor was the only son of Mexican War hero and President Zachary Taylor.
		Taylor served as an aide to his father during the Mexican War for a short while until he became ill. In 1850, Richard Taylor bought a plantation in Louisiana and eventually ran for and won a public office in that state; he was a member of the Louisiana Legislature that voted for secession.
		General Taylor was one subordinate of Kirby Smith’s who was strong-willed.
	www.curledup.com /crisisin.htm (990 words)

	Lieutenant General Richard Taylor of the Confederate Army
		Lieutenant General Richard Taylor of the Confederate Army
		Taylor was the son of former President Zachary Taylor and
		Robert E. Lee and Joseph E. Johnston had surrendered, Taylor realized that further resistance in his department would lead only to its destruction, he surrendered to Maj. Gen.
	www.mycivilwar.com /leaders/taylor_richard.htm (381 words)

	Richard Taylor : other Richard Taylors
		At the count he said "We have shown that the people's voice must be heard." [sad that the people go a bit quiet when they are asked to pay for what they want] more...
		Father of 10-year-old Damilola Taylor who was murdered in November 2000 in Peckham, London, sparking national outrage.
		General in the Confederate Army during the American Civil War and son of the 12th US President Zachary Taylor.
	www.richardtaylor.co.uk /who/others.html (565 words)

	Handbook of Texas Online:
		After failing to stem significantly the sale of cotton, Taylor by early 1864 had ordered that all bailed and seeded cotton be burned.
		Richard Taylor, in command of the Confederate forces opposing Banks, was retreating upriver as he awaited Confederate troops that were on the way to assist him.
		Taylor continued to harass the retreating Union army, with the final skirmishes of the Red River campaign occurring at Mansura, Louisiana, on May 16 and at Yellow Bayou on May 18.
	www.tsha.utexas.edu /handbook/online/articles/view/RR/qdr1.html (1117 words)

	Amazon.com: "Richard Taylor": Key Phrase page (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Civil War hero Richard Taylor was one of "Lee's generals," and the last Confederate general to surrender east of the Mississippi.
		Major General Richard Taylor, Confederate commander of the District of Western Louisiana, had the responsibility of opposing Banks and his powerful flotilla.
		See, for example, Richard Taylor, Kathleen Rockhill and Roger Fieldhouse (1985) University Adult Education in England and the USA: A Reappraisal of the Liberal Tradition.
	www.amazon.com /phrase/Richard-Taylor (657 words)

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