Mother: ELIZABETH BACON |
Americans of Royal Descent Virginia State Archives, Richmond, VA
Ancestors of American Presidents Author: Gary Boyd Roberts
Publication: 1989
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d. 25 Aug 1670
_ROBERT BACON __________+ | (1479 - 1548) m 1504 _JAMES BACON _____________| | (1516 - 1573) m 1538 | | |_ISABELLE ELEANOR CAGE _ | (1478 - ....) m 1504 _JAMES BACON Knt.____| | (1543 - 1617) m 1590| | | ________________________ | | | | |_MARGARET RAWLINGS _______| | (1518 - 1545) m 1538 | | |________________________ | | |--JAMES BACON of Friston Hall | (1575 - 1649) | _THOMAS BACON __________+ | | (1470 - 1547) m 1514 | _FRANCIS BACON of Hessett_| | | (1522 - 1595) | | | |_ANN ROUS ______________ | | (1483 - ....) m 1514 |_ELIZABETH BACON ____| (1573 - 1580) m 1590| | ________________________ | | |_ANNE DRURY ______________| (1531 - ....) | |________________________
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Subject: Dr. Thomas Barbour Date: Thu, 30 Sep 2004
"Found your address on "My Southern Family Home Page". I have a
letter from French Strother to Dr. Thomas Barbour dated Oct 19,
1833 dealing w/administration of his brother's estate and
discussing contacting Governor's office. Also, discusses
Negroes being sold and other family matters. Would you know of
anyone having any interest in this information?
another letter I have is from Thomas BARBOUR (I had it
"Burbon"). In that letter, dated 3/26/1832) Thomas addresses
Miss Sarah Catherine STROTHER discussing their upcoming marrage
and living arraingements. He mentiones Misses Elizabeth Buckner
and Ashby. Also, mentiones a Major Lightfoot."
Paul E. Mullett
Louisville, KY
[241959]
of cholera
_James BARBOUR II____+ | (1707 - 1775) m 1733 _Thomas BARBOUR _____________| | (1735 - 1825) | | |_Sarah TODD _________+ | (1717 - 1781) m 1733 _Philip Pendleton BARBOUR Judge_| | (1783 - 1842) | | | _Joseph THOMAS ______+ | | | (1705 - 1773) | |_Mary Pendleton THOMAS ______| | (1735 - 1825) | | |_Sarah PENDLETON ____+ | (1711 - 1794) | |--Thomas BARBOUR | (1800 - 1849) | _____________________ | | | _Benjamin JOHNSON ___________| | | (1740 - ....) | | | |_____________________ | | |_Frances Todd JOHNSON __________| (1787 - 1872) | | _James BARBOUR II____+ | | (1707 - 1775) m 1733 |_Elizabeth "Bettie" BARBOUR _| (1740 - ....) | |_Sarah TODD _________+ (1717 - 1781) m 1733
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Mother: Mary Monroe BUCKNER |
_Thomas BUCKNER __________+ | (1728 - 1795) m 1749 _Thomas BUCKNER _____| | (1755 - 1805) | | |_Judith Presley THORNTON _+ | (1731 - 1757) m 1749 _William Thomas BUCKNER Sr._| | (1786 - 1849) m 1807 | | | _Samuel HAWES Jr._________+ | | | (1727 - 1794) m 1751 | |_Elizabeth HAWES ____| | (1759 - 1836) | | |_Ann WALKER ______________+ | (1730 - 1805) m 1751 | |--Elizabeth BUCKNER | (1808 - 1809) | _Thomas BUCKNER __________+ | | (1728 - 1795) m 1749 | _William BUCKNER ____| | | (1753 - 1800) m 1773| | | |_Judith Presley THORNTON _+ | | (1731 - 1757) m 1749 |_Mary Monroe BUCKNER _______| (1791 - 1817) m 1807 | | _Spence MONROE Sr.________+ | | (1727 - 1774) m 1752 |_Elizabeth MONROE ___| (1754 - 1812) m 1773| |_Elizabeth "Eliza" JONES _+ (1729 - ....) m 1752
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"November 19th, 1778, Benjamin Holloday and Mary, his wife,"
Sons, Joseph and Benjamin, not mentioned in will.
Will of Benjamin Holloday, p. 42. Berkley Parish, Spts. County,
died March 18th, 1785. Witness, Joseph Holloday, junior, Stephen
Holloday and William Holloday. Ex. Son-in-Law, Joseph Pulliam.
Leg. my wife (Mary) grandson, Benjamin Hclloday (son of Joseph)
and daughter Susanna Holloday, daughter Agnes Holloday, married
Joseph Holloday, junior, Martha Holloday, daughter Mary
Holloday, married Austin Sandridge, daughter Nancy Holloday,
married John Rawlings, daughter Elizabeth Holloday, married
Joseph Pulliam.
Children by first wife: 1st, Elizabeth, wife of Joseph Pulliam.
2nd, Joseph, born 1747, died 1783, married 1780, Mrs. Fannie
Johnson, had, 1st, Benjamin, born 1781. 2nd, Fanny, born 1783.
3rd, Susanna. 4th, Agnes, born 1750, died 1792, married Joseph
Holliday, junior. 5th, Sarah, born 1752, died 1800. 6th, Mary,
born 1756. 7th, Martha, born 1757. 8th, Benjamin, born 1758.
By second wife. 9th, Mary, born 1760, died 1830, married Austin
Sandridge. 10th, Nancy, born 1762, died 1800, married John
Rawlings.
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Mother: Margaret Mackall "Peggy" SMITH 1st Lady of the USA |
Following the course of the Red River in LA, the Union Army and
Navy progressed with little opposition through Alexandria and
reached Natchitoches by early April, 1864. At Natchitoches the
Army veered away from the Red River, going toward Shreveport by
way of Mansfield, which left them without the support of the
Navy. This and other tactical blunders on the part of General
Banks and a series of successful maneuvers by Maj. Gen. Richard
Taylor (son of President Zachary Taylor), who commanded the
Confederate forces, were decisive factors leading to the final
outcome of the battle.
Confederate Victory at Mansfield
On May 18, 1864, the Union forces crossed the Atchafalaya River,
ending the disastrous Red River campaign. By turning back these
large Union forces, the Confederates were able to prevent
complete Union control of Louisiana and to stop progression of
the war into Texas.
Mansfield State Commemorative Area, Route 2, Box 459, Mansfield,
La. 71052.
(318) 872-1474. The park is located in DeSoto Parish, four miles
south of the town of Mansfield on Louisiana Highway 175. The
118-acre park has a museum exhibiting Civil War weapons, arms,
uniforms, letters, diaries, documents and other related
artifacts. An interpretive trail, named in honor of Gen. Mouton,
winds throughout the site. In 1973, this state commemorative
area was placed on the National Register of Historic Places, an
honorary designation for significant historic sites.
(Information herein is drawn from a public document issued by
the Louisiana Department of Culture, Recreation and Tourism,
Office of State Parks.)
Name TAYLOR, Richard
Born January 27 1826, nr Louisville KY
Died April 12 1879, New York NY
Pre-War Profession Military secretary to his father in Mexican
War, planter, politician.
War Service 1861 Col. of 9th Louisiana, October 1861 Brig. Gen.,
Jackson's Shenandoah Valley campaign, Seven Days, July 1862 Maj.
Gen., command of Dist. of West Louisiana, Red River campaign,
Mansfield, Pleasant Hill, April 1864
Lt. Gen. in command of Dept. of Alabama and Mississippi, held
out at Mobile.
Post War Career Wrote memoirs
Notes Son of President Zachary Taylor, and brother-in-law of
President Davis.
Further reading Parrish, T. Michael Richard Taylor, soldier
prince of Dixie Chapel Hill, University of North Carolina Press
1992 Taylor, Richard Destruction and reconstruction : personal
experiences of the late war Alexandria VA, Time-Life Books 1983.
THE TAYLORS: Union Brig. Gen. Joseph P. Taylor was the uncle of
Confederate Lt. Gen. Richard Taylor, son of the late President
Zachary Taylor, who was the brother-in-law of Confederate Brig.
Gen. Allen Thomas, and of Jefferson Davis by his first marriage,
while the Confederate Maj. Gen. Lafayette McLaws was a nephew
through marriage of the late president, and hence a cousin of
Dick Taylor.
Command KENTUCKY
Marcellus J. (Sue Mundy) Clarke's
Kentucky Guerrilla Command
Dick Taylor's Guerrilla Command
******
Lieutenant-General Richard Taylor, the only son of General
Zachary Taylor, twelfth president of the United States, was born
near Louisville, Ky., January 27, 1826. He was liberally
educated at Edinburgh, in France, and at Yale college, and after
his graduation in 1845 he served for a time as the secretary of
his father, then in command of the army on the Rio Grande.
During the succeeding period of peace he lived upon his
extensive estate in St. Charles Parish, La., devoting himself to
the management of the plantation and to political and scientific
studies ; in the enjoyment of a loving family, wealth and
friends, and typifying the flower of the social development of
that period. He served in the senate of the State from 1858 to
1861, and was a delegate to the Charleston and Baltimore
national conventions of 1860. As chairman of the committee on
Federal Relations of the Louisiana senate of 1861, he secured
the passage of an act calling a State convention, and in that
latter body held the chairmanship of the Military and Defense
committee.
After the passage of the ordinance of secession he visited
General Bragg at Pensacola, until called back to assume command
of the Ninth Louisiana regiment of infantry and hasten with it
to Richmond. Reaching Manassas after the battle he was assigned
to Walker's brigade, which also included the Sixth, Seventh and
Eighth Louisiana regiments. On Walker's transfer to another
command, Taylor, though once refusing promotion, was persuaded
by the insistence of the senior colonels and President Davis, to
accept the command of the brigade and the rank of
brigadier-general. With this gallant brigade, in the division of
Richard S. Ewell, he participated in the battles of Front Royal,
Cross Keys, Winchester and Port Republic, of Jackson's campaign
in the Shenandoah valley.
At Port Republic, General Taylor and his Louisiana were
assigned to attack the enemy's left, and their intrepid conduct
was especially commended by their great commander. The Federal
batteries finally left in their hands by the defeat of the enemy
were presented to the brigade. Soon after the close of the Seven
Days' battles before Richmond, Taylor was promoted major-general
upon the recommendation of Stonewall Jackson, and was assigned
to the command of the district of Louisiana; embracing all of
that State west of the Mississippi. Here he encountered the most
arduous duty. Confederate authority had ceased to exist since
the fail of New Orleans; fortifications at Barataria, Berwick's
Bay, and other points, had been abandoned ; industry was
paralyzed, and soldiers, arms, munitions and money were
alike wanting.
Amidst these discouraging conditions General Taylor set about
the task of restoring confidence, reviving enthusiasm and
creating an army. In an incredible short time his courage and
resolute energy had changed the aspect of the State. Regiments
began to form, then brigades and divisions, shops and depots of
supplies were established, ordnance was gathered, and river
boats were transformed into an armed navy. The army so greatly
due to his organizing ability and enthusiasm afterward won its
triumphs and had its glories as well as the armies of Tennessee
and Northern Virginia. The Federal post Bayou des Allemands was
captured, Weitzel's imposing advance down the Lafourche was
checked by the determined fighting of 500 men, the "Indianola"
was destroyed in naval combat, and at Berwick's Bay the Federals
were forced to turn over to General Taylor 1,700 prisoners, 12
guns and vast military stores. But his operations for the relief
of New Orleans were rendered futile by the fall of Vicksburg.
In the spring of 1864 he was called upon to encounter the
formidable invasion of the Red river country, composed of
nineteen gunboats under Admiral Porter, 28,000 men under Banks,
and 7,000 from Arkansas under Steele. General Taylor was able to
give battle at Mansfield with a force of 8,800 men and won a
glorious victory, driving the enemy four miles, and capturing
2,500 prisoners and twenty pieces of artillery. On the next day,
April 9th, he struck the enemy a second staggering blow at
Pleasant Hill, and a month later the Federal army crossed the,
Atchafalaya, leaving Taylor in undisturbed possession of his
department.
He then sought relief from duty, but was soon called to assume
command of the department of Alabama and Mississippi, with
promotion to the rank of lieutenant-general. Here he did all
that could be hoped in the closing months of the struggle, until
after Johnston's capitulation, when having concentrated the
forces of Maury and Forrest at Meridian, he surrendered to
General Canby, at Citronelle, May 8, 1865, all the remaining
forces of the Confederacy east of the Mississippi. By order of
General Canby his corps commanders conformed the movement of
their troops to the advice of General Taylor, and entire
confidence existed between the Northern and Southern soldiers.
In the troublous years which followed he was active in the
interest of the South and was able to exert an important
influence through his remarkable tact; charm of manner and
strength of character. He visited Mr. Davis at Fortress Monroe,
spent some time at Washington in efforts for the release of the
distinguished captive, appealed to Johnson and Grant for a
lenient administration of reconstruction laws, and was
instrumental in securing the relieving of Sheridan by Hancock at
New Orleans. In 1873 he visited Europe and was the recipient of
a continuous social ovation. His principal literary works, "A
Statesman of the Colonial Era," and "Destruction and
Reconstruction," attracted wide attention. But his later years
were clouded, not only by the loss of wealth, but by the death
of his two young sons during the war, and his sorrow was
intensified by the death of his wife, Myrthe Bringier, in 1875.
After that he survived but four years, a period he passed in
Virginia. He died at New York, April 17, 1879.
***
General Richard Taylor headed LA troops that came to join
Stonewall in the Valley in 1862. There is a story that Taylor
thought to impress Stonewall by having his troops march in
smartly without stragglers and then go into a dance. Stonewall,
of course, pretended not to be impressed, but he put the LA
troops in crucial spots in ensuing battles. His Valley boys
were awe struck by the ability of Taylor's troops to respond
correctly to orders given in French.
July 1861 Col. of 9th Louisiana
October 1861 Brig. Gen., commanded a brigade under Ewell in
Jackson's Shenandoah Valley campaign
July 1862 Maj. Gen., command of Dist. of West Louisiana, fought
in Red River Campaign, Mansfield, Pleasant Hill
April 1864 Lt. Gen. in command of Dept. of East Louisiana,
Alabama and Mississippi, held out at Mobile
May 1865 surrendered all remaining Confederate forces east of
the Mississippi River
Taylor's Surrender
A meeting was schedule for the last day of April, 1865 between
Gen. Richard Taylor, CSA and General E.R.S. Canby U.S.A about 12
miles up the railroad from Mobile, AL.
The place was called Magee's Farm. Canby was waiting at the
scheduled time beside the tracks with a full brigade drawn up as
guard of honor, a band, and a brassy array of staffers. They all
turned out in their best dress.
Taylor and an aide who's uniform was as weathered and battered
as his own arrived on a handcart from Meridian, MS that was
"pumped" down the tracks by two Negroes. Taylor and Canby
retired to a room that was prepared in a nearby house. They
agreed to a truce while they awaited ratification by their two
governments of terms given to Johnston twelve days earlier by
Sherman. Copies had been forwarded to both of them. This being
done, they went into the yard and shared a luncheon that
included several bottles of champagne. Taylor commented "these
were the first agreeable explosive sounds I had heard for
years." The musicians began playing "Hail, Columbia" and
"Dixie."
Back in Meridian the next day, Taylor had heard from Canby that
the Sherman-Johnston agreement had been disavowed; fighting
would resume in forty-eight hours unless he surrendered on the
terms accorded Lee three weeks earlier. Taylor had neither the
means nor the inclination to continue the struggle on his own.
On May 2, 1865 he accepted Canby's scaled-down offer. Two days
later on May 4, they met again, this time in Citronelle, AL also
on the Mobile-Ohio Railroad, twenty miles north of Magee's farm.
Taylor delivered as he put it "the epilogue of the great drama
in which I had played a humble part."
In Alabama, Mississippi, and East Louisiana, as had already been
done in Virginia, Georgia, North and South Carolina; all
survivors were to lay down their arms in exchange for assurance
by the victors that they were not to be "disturbed" by the U.S.
government "so long as they continue to observe the conditions
of their parole and the laws in force where they reside."
A historical marker marks the spot on Celeste Road in
Citronelle.
This marker is in Citronelle, AL on Celeste Road. Just across
from it is Boy Scout Camp Pushmatahah where the actual surrender
took place under an oak tree called Surrender Oak. This oak tree
was destroyed durring a hurricane in 1952, but one has been
planted in its place.
Children:
Zachary TAYLOR b: 1855
Betty M. TAYLOR
Louise Margaret TAYLOR
Richard TAYLOR
Myrthe Bianca TAYLOR b: 1864 + Isaac Hull STAUFFER b: Bet. 1860
- 1865
"General Richard Taylor, in one of the best Confederate memoirs,
Destruction and Reconstruction, related what happened as he
surrendered the last Confederate troops east of the Mississippi
in 1865. A German, wearing the uniform of a Yankee general and
speaking in heavily accented English, lectured him that now that
the war was over, Southerners would be taught "the true American
principles." Taylor replied, sardonically, that he regretted
that his grandfather, an officer in the Revolution, and his
father, President of the United States, had not passed on to him
true American principles. Yankeeism was triumphant."
For the whole article from whence this comes visit:
Why we hate Yankees:
http://www.lewrockwell.com/wilson/wilson12.html
Lords of the Valley by Dale Gallon
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. He attended private
schools in Kentucky and Massachusetts before being admitted to
Yale College in 1843. He graduated two years later, having
merited no scholastic honors but instead concentrated on reading
widely in classical and military history. He agreed to manage
the family cotton plantation in Jefferson County, Mississippi,
and in 1850 he persuaded his father (now President Taylor by
virtue of his election in 1848) to purchase Fashion, a large
sugar plantation in St. Charles Parish, Louisiana.
After Zachary Taylor's untimely death in July 1850, Taylor
inherited Fashion. Steadily he increased its acreage, improved
its sugar works (at considerable expense), and expanded its
labor force to nearly 200 slaves, making him one of the richest
men in Louisiana. But the freeze of 1856 ruined his crop,
forcing him into heavy debt with a large mortgage on Fashion, a
fragile condition underwritten largely by his generous
motherinlaw Aglae Bringier, a wealthy French Creole matriarch
whose daughter, Myrthe, Taylor had married in 1851. (They
eventually had two sons and three daughters.) Yet he still
projected an image of aristocratic affluence by racing
thoroughbred horses at the famous Metairie Track and appearing
at the gaming tables of the exclusive Boston Club in New
Orleans.
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. His sense of nationalistic, Whiggish
conservatism, although thoroughly laced with a Southern disdain
for agitating abolitionists, also made him distrustful of
demagogic Southern fireeaters' demands for disunion. Both of
these volatile expressions of the nation's expansive democracy
Taylor found repulsive and ultimately tragic. As a rueful
delegate from Louisiana to the 1860 national Democratic
Convention in Charleston, he witnessed the party's fatal
splintering along sectional lines. There he attempted, but
failed, to forge a less radical course for the South, arguing
for a compromise between stunned moderates and implacable
secessionists. Now viewing war as inevitable, Taylor willingly
served as a delegate to the Louisiana secession convention in
January 1861 and voted with the convention's majority for
immediate secession. Yet his prophetic pleas to protect the
state from military invasion went largely unheeded by
overconfident fellow secessionists. He retired in disgust to his
plantation, recognizing the Confederacy's fundamental lack of
unity and even predicting eventual defeat, but he remained
willing to serve if called. He was elected colonel of the Ninth
Louisiana Infantry, assumed command in July, and took the
regiment to Virginia. Surprisingly, in late October he received
promotion to brigadier general by order of President Jefferson
Davis (his brotherinlaw by Davis's first marriage to one of
Taylor's sisters). Although devoid of formal military training
or combat experience, Taylor enjoyed his brigade's strong
respect along with a reputation as a consummate student of
military history, strategy, and tactics. "Dick Taylor was a born
soldier," asserted a close friend. "Probably no civilian of his
time was more deeply versed in the annals of war." 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. Thomas J. "Stonewall"
Jackson's brilliant Shenandoah Valley campaign during the spring
of 1862. Jackson used Taylor's brigade as an elite strike force
that set a crippling marching pace and dealt swift flanking
attacks. At Front Royal on May 23, again at Winchester on May
25, and finally at the climactic battle of Port Republic on June
9, he led the Louisianans in timely assaults against strong
enemy positions. He was promoted to major general on July 25,
1862, at thirtysix years of age the youngest Confederate
officer to attain such rank to date. He suffered terribly from
chronic rheumatoid arthritis, however, and so was given command
of the District of West Louisiana and charged with reviving his
home state's severely deteriorated war effort. Almost from the
start he feuded with his superior, Gen. Edmund Kirby Smith, qv
commander of the TransMississippi Department, mainly regarding
Taylor's desperate need for troops to defend Louisiana's
civilian population against destructive federal forays. Smith
also thwarted Taylor's desire to free New Orleans from federal
occupation, a goal that received strong, although temporary,
approval and encouragement from Secretary of War George Wythe
Randolph and President Davis. During 1863 Taylor directed an
effective series of clashes with Union forces over control of
lower Louisiana, most notably at Fort Bisland and Franklin
(April 13-14), Brashear City (June 23), and Bayou Bourbeau
(November 3).
In the early spring of 1864, after withdrawing up the Red River
Valley in the face of Maj. Gen. Nathaniel P. Banks's invasion
force of more than 25,000 men, Taylor became appalled at the
devastation inflicted by the enemy upon Louisiana's heartland.
On April 8, with an army of no more than 9,000 men, mostly
Louisianans and Texans, he ignored Smith's explicit instructions
to delay, instead attacking Banks's disorganized column a few
miles below Mansfield near Sabine Crossroads. The Confederates
swept the terrorstricken Yankees through the thick pine forest
and then pursued them southward to Pleasant Hill. There, the
next day, the federals withstood Taylor's assaults, forcing him
to retire from the field. But Banks's generals compelled him to
withdraw to Alexandria on the Red River. 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. Taylor repeatedly demanded Walker's
Division in order to crush Banks and liberate New Orleans, but
Smith stubbornly refused. Finally Banks's army escaped from
Alexandria on May 13. Convinced of Smith's arrogant ambition and
incompetence, Taylor exploded with a series of insulting,
insubordinate diatribes against Smith and submitted his
resignation. Although unwilling to admit his strategic blunder
in failing to allow Taylor to keep Walker's Division, Smith
harbored no personal grudge. Taylor, however, never forgave
Smith. Despite his heroic status for having saved most of
Louisiana and virtually all of Texas from military conquest,
Taylor viewed the Red River Campaign as a profound
disappointment.
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. From
September 1864 until war's end Taylor struggled to defend his
department, receiving scant cooperation from state governors,
legislatures, and local militia units, while also contending
with Jefferson Davis's poor coordination of the Confederacy's
cumbersome bureaucracy, especially its divisive departmental
system. Fortunately, Taylor enjoyed the benefit of Nathan
Bedford Forrest's superb cavalry, which resisted federal
incursions and supported the embattled Army of Tennessee by
raiding enemy supply lines. Forrest showed genuine admiration
for Taylor's leadership, remarking candidly, "He's the biggest
man in the lot. If we'd had more like him, we would have licked
the Yankees long ago." In January 1865 Taylor briefly assumed
command of the shattered ranks of the Army of Tennessee after
Gen. John Bell Hood'sqv catastrophic defeats at Franklin and
Nashville several weeks earlier. As the Southern cause rapidly
disintegrated during the spring, Taylor saw his own department
gutted by Brig. Gen. James H. Wilson's massive cavalry raid
through Alabama and Maj. Gen. Edward R. S. Canby'sqv triumphant
siege of Mobile. Taylor had "shared the fortunes of the
Confederacy," as he later recalled, having "sat by its cradle
and followed its hearse." Indeed, the war had inflicted harsh
personal sacrifices: he lost his plantation to destruction and
confiscation by federal soldiers; his two young sons died of
scarlet fever as wartime refugees; and his wife suffered so
severely that she lapsed into a slow decline that ended with her
premature death in 1875.
After surrendering his department to Canby on May 4, 1865,
Taylor took up residency in New Orleans and tried to revive his
finances by securing a lease of the New Basin Canal from the
state. He also garnered the support of a wealthy New York City
attorney, Samuel Latham Mitchell Barlow, one of the Democratic
party's most effective powerbrokers. At Barlow's bidding Taylor
negotiated with presidents Andrew Johnson and Ulysses S. Grant
and also lobbied members of Congress, all in an attempt to
advance democratic principles, mainly by gaining lenient
treatment for the South. Increasingly distrustful of Radical
Republicans, Taylor finally cursed Reconstructionqv as a
loathsome evil, with Johnson as its inept victim and Grant as
its corrupt handmaiden. The continual racial and political
strife, much of which Taylor witnessed personally in New
Orleans, gradually pushed him along with many other genteel
conservatives into a reactionary position that lent tacit
approval to the corrupt, blatantly violent backlash by Southern
white Democrats against freedmens' efforts to assert their new
voting rights under Republican sponsorship. Shortly after his
wife's death in 1875, Taylor moved with his three daughters to
Winchester, Virginia. Intimately involved in New Yorker Samuel
J. Tilden's Democratic presidential campaign in 1876, Taylor
vainly attempted to influence congressional maneuverings in the
wake of the disputed election returns, a national crisis
ultimately diffused by the pervasive breakdown of solidarity
among Democratic leaders. On April 12, 1879, Taylor died at
Barlow's home in New York City, succumbing to severe internal
congestion resulting from his long battle with rheumatoid
arthritis. Although Taylor had never demonstrated strong
religious convictions, an Episcopal clergyman was present to
minister to him. He was buried in a family crypt in Metairie
Cemetery, New Orleans. Only a few weeks before his death he
completed his memoirs, Destruction and Reconstruction, one of
the most literate and colorful firsthand accounts of the Civil
War era. From:
http://www.angelfire.com/va3/valleywar/people/taylor.html
_Zachary TAYLOR Sr._______+ | (1707 - 1768) m 1737 _Richard TAYLOR ________| | (1744 - 1829) m 1779 | | |_Elizabeth LEE ___________+ | (1709 - 1745) m 1737 _Zachary "Old Rough and Ready" TAYLOR 12th PRESIDENT_| | (1784 - 1850) m 1810 | | | _William Dabney STROTHER _+ | | | (1726 - 1808) m 1752 | |_Sarah Dabney STROTHER _| | (1760 - 1822) m 1779 | | |_Sarah BAYLY _____________+ | (1720 - 1774) m 1752 | |--Richard TAYLOR C.S.A. | (1826 - 1879) | _Walter SMITH II__________+ | | (1720 - 1748) | _Walter SMITH III_______| | | (1747 - 1804) m 1774 | | | |__________________________ | | |_Margaret Mackall "Peggy" SMITH 1st Lady of the USA__| (1788 - 1852) m 1810 | | _James John MACKALL ______+ | | (1717 - 1772) m 1736 |_Ann MACKALL ___________| (1753 - ....) m 1774 | |_Mary HANCE ______________ (1720 - ....) m 1736
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_Anthoine TRABUC ________________________________________+ | (1629 - ....) m 1646 _Anthony TRABUE\TRABUC "the Immigrant"_| | (1669 - 1724) m 1704 | | |_Bernarde CHIBAILHE _____________________________________+ | (1629 - ....) m 1646 _Jacob TRABUE ____________| | (1705 - 1767) m 1731 | | | _Moyses (Moses or Moise) VEREUL\VERRUEIL "the Immigrant"_+ | | | (1650 - 1701) m 1677 | |_Magdalene VEREUL\VERRUEIL ____________| | (1683 - 1731) m 1704 | | |_Magdalena PRODON (PRODHOMME) ___________________________+ | (1660 - 1722) m 1677 | |--Marie TRABUE | (1744 - ....) | _________________________________________________________ | | | _John WOOLDRIDGE "the Immigrant"_______| | | (1678 - 1757) m 1705 | | | |_________________________________________________________ | | |_Mary (Marie) WOOLDRIDGE _| (1712 - 1789) m 1731 | | _Edward OSBORNE _________________________________________+ | | (1646 - 1697) m 1676 |_Martha OSBORNE? ______________________| (1688 - 1757) m 1705 | |_Tabitha PLATT __________________________________________+ (1660 - 1692) m 1676
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