 | GenghisTheHun (181)
10/24/2005 | He was from Georgia. He was a member of the U. S. House and Speaker of the House. He was Governor of Georgia. He was Secretary of the Treasury in the Buchanan Administration.
He was president of the convention of the seceded states that drafted a constitution for the Confederacy which assembled in Montgomery, Alabama, on February 24, 1861.
He was appointed a brigadier general in the Confederate Army February 13, 1862, and was promoted to major general September 9, 1863. His brigade played a key role in the fighting at Crampton's Gap during the Battle of South Mountain.
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