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| | Zachary Taylor |
 | | Zachary Taylor, the twelfth president of the United States, was born in Orange county, Virginia, on the 24th of September 1784. |
 | | Meanwhile Taylor had strengthened his base of supplies at Point Isabel, where he was reinforced by militia from Texas and Louisiana, and during the return march from this post was fiercely attacked at Palo Alto (about 8 miles N.E. of Brownsville, Texas) on May 8th, by the Mexicans under Arista. |
 | | The only son that survived him, Richard Taylor (1826-1879), popularly known as "General Dick", graduated at Yale in 1845, entered the Confederate army at the beginning of the Civil War, was commanding officer in Louisiana, and under Edmund Kirby Smith helped to administer the western half of the Confederacy, after the fall of Vicksburg. |
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