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I. Louise Eugenie Bonaparte((4)), b. 1873. Married (1896) Count
Adam Molke-Huitfeldt, of Denmark.
II. Jerome Napoleon Charles Bonaparte((4)), b. 1878; unmarried.
BONAPARTE, JEROME NAPOLEON, JR. (1830-1893). Jerome Napoleon
Bonaparte, Jr., was born in Baltimore, Maryland, on November 5,
1830, the son of Jerome Napoleon and Susan May (Williams)
Bonaparte. He was the grandson of Jerome Bonaparte, the younger
brother of the Emperor Napoleon I of France. While serving as a
lieutenant in the French navy Jerome Bonaparte met and married
Elizabeth Patterson of Baltimore, "a reigning belle of that
city," and the couple had one child. The emperor took exception
to his brother's marrying a commoner, however, and the marriage
did not last. On July 1, 1852, Jerome N. Bonaparte, Jr.,
graduated from the United States Military Academy at West Point,
eleventh in his class. He was brevetted a second lieutenant in C
Troop of the Regiment of Mounted Rifles and was assigned to duty
at Fort Inge. On August 30, 1853, he was promoted to the
substantive rank of second lieutenant. His letters from Fort
Inge and Fort Ewell, now at the Maryland Historical Society,
shed considerable light on the life of a junior officer on the
Texas frontier in the 1850s. On August 16, 1854, after two years
of frontier duty, he resigned from the United States Army when
Napoleon III summoned him to Paris to commission him into the
French army. Bonaparte served in Algiers, the Italian campaign,
the Crimean War, and the Franco-Prussian War and eventually rose
to the rank of colonel. In 1871 he returned to the United States
to marry Mrs. Caroline Edgar. With the exception of a prolonged
stay in Paris from 1873 through 1879, he spent the rest of his
life in America. He died at Pride's Crossing, Massachusetts, on
September 3, 1893. Gen. Dabney H. Maury wrote that Bonaparte's
"commanding appearance, the grace and gentleness of his
demeanor, and his fine intelligence win him the admiration of
all who know him." Bonaparte was said to have been held high in
the esteem of his kinsman, the emperor Louis Napoleon.
BIBLIOGRAPHY: Francis B. Heitman, Historical Register and
Dictionary of the United States Army (2 vols., Washington: GPO,
1903; rpt., Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1965). Dabney
Herndon Maury, Recollections of a Virginian in the Mexican,
Indian, and Civil Wars (New York: Scribner, 1894).
William D. Hoyt, Jr.
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George E. Pickett (George Edward), 1825-1875 The Heart of a
Soldier: As Revealed
in the Intimate Letters of Genl. George E. Pickett C.S.A. New
York: Seth Moyle, c1913.
http://docsouth.unc.edu/pickett/menu.html
George Edward Pickett January 25, 1825 - July 30, 1875:
Confederate Army officer during the American Civil War, known
for Pickett's Charge at the Battle of Gettysburg.
After graduating last in his class from the U.S. Military
Academy at West Point, N.Y., (1846), Pickett served with
distinction in the Mexican War (1846-47). He resigned his
commission in June 1861 and entered the Confederate Army, in
which he was made brigadier general in February 1862. Pickett
rose to major general in October and was given command of a
Virginia division. At the Battle of Fredericksburg he commanded
the centre of Gen. Robert E. Lee's line but saw little action.
At Gettysburg (July 3, 1863) three brigades of Pickett's
division (4,300 men) constituted somewhat less than half the
force in the climactic attack known as Pickett's Charge. The
attack was actually under the command of Gen. James Longstreet.
Its bloodily disastrous repulse is often considered the turning
point of the war. Although Pickett was much criticized and
charged by some with cowardice, Lee retained him in divisional
command throughout the Virginia Campaign of 1864. Eight days
before the surrender at Appomattox (April 9, 1865), Pickett's
division was almost destroyed at Five Forks while he was
attending a shad bake. After the war he worked in an insurance
business in Norfolk, Va. 1999 Britannica.com Inc
CAMPAIGNS: Seven Days, Gaines' Mill, Fredericksburg, Gettysburg,
New Berne, Petersburg, Five Forks and Sayler's Creek. HIGHEST
RANK ACHIEVED: Major General
BIOGRAPHY
George Edward Pickett was born on January 28, 1825, in Richmond,
Virginia. He graduated from West Point in 1846, in the same
class as George B. McClellan and Thomas J. Jackson. After
fighting in the Mexican War, he served in Texas, Virginia and
Washington Territory. In 1861, he resigned his commission and
joined the Confederate army. Commissioned a Confederate
brigadier general on January 14, 1862, he fought under Maj. Gen.
James Longstreet in the Seven Days' Campaign, and was wounded at
Gaines' Mill. Promoted to major general on October 10, 1862, he
led a division at Fredericksburg. During the Battle of
Gettysburg, he led what became known as "Pickett's Charge," an
unsuccessful attempt to coordinate a massive assault on the
Union center. Thereafter, Pickett's military reputation declined
and, after fighting in the Battles of New Berne, Petersburg Five
Forks and Sayler's Creek, he was relieved of command by General
Lee. A few days later, Lee surrendered at Appomattox, and the
Civil War ended. After the war, Pickett worked as an insurance
salesman. He died in Norfolk, Virginia, on July 30, 1875.
http://www.multied.com/Bio/CWcGENS/CSAPickett.html
George Edward Pickett: PICKETT, George Edward, soldier, born in
Richmond, Virginia, 25 January, 1825 ; died in Norfolk,
Virginia, 30 July, 1875. His father was a resident of Henrico
county, Virginia The son was appointed to the United States
military academy from Illinois, and graduated in 1846. He served
in the war with Mexico, was made 2d lieutenant in the 2d
infantry, 3 March, 1847, was at the siege of Vera Cruz and was
engaged in all the battles that preceded the assault and capture
of the city of Mexico. He was transferred to the 7th infantry,
13 July, 1847, and to the 8th infantry, 18 July, 1847, and
brevetted 1st lieutenant, 8 September, 1847, for gallant and
meritorious conduct at Contreras and Churubusco, and captain, 13
September, for Chapultepec. He became captain in the 9th
infantry, 3 March, 1855, after serving in garrisons in Texas
from 1849, and in 1856 he was on frontier duty in the northwest
territory at Puget sound. Captain Pickett was ordered, with
sixty men, to occupy San Juan island then, during the dispute
with Great Britain over the northwest boundary, and the British
governor, Sir James Douglas, sent three vessels of war to eject
Pickett from his position. He forbade the landing of troops from
the vessels, under the threat of firing upon them, and an actual
collision was prevented only by the timely arrival of the
British admiral, by whose order the issue of force was
postponed. For his conduct on this occasion General Harney in
his report commended Captain Pickett "for the cool judgment,
ability, and gallantry he had displayed," and the legislature of
Washington territory passed resolutions thanking him for it. He
resigned from the army, 25 June. 1861, and after great
difficulty and delays reached Virginia, where he was at once
commissioned colonel in the state forces and assigned to duty on
Rappahannock river. In February, 1862, he was made
brigadier-general in General James Longstreet's division of the
Confederate army under General Joseph E. Johnston, which was
then called the Army of the Potomac, but afterward became the
Army of Northern Virginia. His brigade, in the retreat before
McClellan up the peninsula and in the seven days' battles around
Richmond, won such a reputation that it was known as "the
game-cock brigade." At the battle of Gaines's Mills, 27 June,
1862, Pickett was severely wounded in the shoulder, and he did
not rejoin his command until after the first Maryland campaign.
He was then made major-general, with a division that was
composed entirely of Virginians. At the battle of Fredericksburg
this division held the centre of Bee's line. For an account of
Pickett's charge at Gettysburg, 3 July, 1863, see the articles
LEE, ROBERT E., and MEADE, GEORGE G. Pickett was afterward
placed in command in lower Virginia and eastern North Carolina.
In May, 1864, he defended Petersburg and saved it from surprise
and capture by General Benjamin F. Butler. In the attack on
General Butler's forces along the line of the railroad between
Richmond and Petersburg, Pickett's division captured the works.
General Lee, in a letter of thanks and congratulation, dated 17
June, said: " We tried very hard to stop Pickett's men from
capturing the breastworks of the enemy, but could not do it." At
Five Forks his division received the brunt of the National
attack, and was entirely disorganized. After the war General
Pickett returned to Richmond, where he spent the remainder of
his life in the life-insurance business. His biography by Edward
A. Pollard is in Pollard's "Life and Times of Robert E. Lee and
his Companions in Arms" (New York, 1871). See also "Pickett's
Men," by Walter Harrison (1870). Edited Appletons Encyclopedia,
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Posted by Adam Youngs on August 04, 2001 In Reply to: Re:
General George Edward Pickett; I'am his great-great grandson
posted by john king pickett on January 02, 2001:
It was not Pickett's fault that the Confederacy lost the Battle
of Gettysburg. Pickett commanded his division consisting of
three brigades under the command of Lewis A.Armistead, James L.
Kemper, and Richard B.Garnett. Pickett's Division was located in
James Longstreet's 1st Corps. Pickett and Longstreet were very
good friends and had fought in the Mexican War together. The
High Water Mark of the Confederacy was dubbed the name
"Pickett's Charge" because Longstreet was commanding and
Pickett's Division was the only main division under his command.
Longstreet was also given command of Ambrose Powell Hill's
(A.P.Hill) divisions under the command of Issac Trimble and
James Pettigrew. Pickett's Division was the last of Longstreets
Divisons to be engaged at Gettysburg. Although Longstreet used
some of Hood's and McLaws's Division to penetrate the Union
Center on Cemetery Ridge on July 3rd, Pickett's Division
outnumbered the other charging divisions. Before the charge
occured Lee insisted that Longstreet order a cannonade to weaken
the Union center in hope to break the Union line. Longstreet was
still upset from the battle on the 2nd day that occured in the
Devil's Den where Hood and McLaws had ordered their men forward.
Lee was cautious and was upset stating that the procedures and
charges were not properly coordinated. Longstreet mentioned to
Lee that there was enough artillery to have another good fight
and he also told Lee that Pickett's Division was not yet
engaged. He also suggested that there was an open gap to the
right of Big Round Top. On the morning of July 3rd Longstreet
told Pickett to deploy his brigades forward. Lee finally told
Longstreet that he wanted to attack the Union center where the
line was the weakest. Ordering Col.E.Porter Alexander to apply
force on the Union center by weakening the Union by cannon fire
Lee was about to procede with the dealiest assault in American
history known today as Pickett's Charge, The High Water Mark, or
Longstreet's Big Mistake. For almost 2 hours artillery from both
sides of the 1 mile stretch overshot each other. Some cannon
overheated and were shooting 2 miles at the most. With utter
confusion neither side could tell whether or not the shell's
were hitting near the enemy. Pickett placed Garnett and Kemper
in the front and Armistead's brigade in support. Trimble and
Pettigrew were placed on the left. As the columns lined up the
drummer boy cadence started drumming a steady beat and slowly
deployed forward. It was a deadly charge over open ground with
canister fire and cannon balls bursting over and around the
ranks. They passed over the mile stretch with cannon fire coming
from all sides with Cushing to their left , cannon up ahead and
cannon fire from Little Round Top. Once they reached the
Emmitsburg Road it was a deadly hail of musketry as the blue
clad stood up from the low lying stone wall. Thinking this was
the weakest point the Union gained reserve support and put up a
big fight. Up and over the stone wall went Kemper and Garnett.
Garnett being crippled from a horse kick to the knee cap was
unable to walk so he rode forward on his horse becoming the
perfect target. Kemper was felled also with a mortal wound and
Armistead was wounded near Cushing's Battery. Of all of the
officers that participated in Pickett's Charge 7 were killed 6
were wounded. Pickett never forgave Lee for ordering the deadly
attack and would always regret how his division was destroyed at
Gettysburg. Pickett was a great officer but he wasn't really
well educated in military tactics considering the fact that he
graduated last in his class at West Point. He also participated
in the Battle of Chepultepec during the Mexican and he stormed
the ramparts there with Longstreet and a few others. Pickett
also paid for the funerals of Longstreets children when three of
the four died within a month. Pickett was a very humorous and a
very serious man. He was one of the souths most beloved
generals.
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In general, a bad re-enactor?
Man who played role of a Pickett descendant troubles Richmond
kin
BY BILL MCKELWAY
TIMES-DISPATCH STAFF WRITER Oct 10, 2004
In a turn of events that speaks to the age-old, sometimes sticky
pursuit of one's Virginia ancestry, descendants of famous
Confederate Civil War general and Richmond native George E.
Pickett are quietly turning their backs on one of their own.
Or at least on someone they thought was one of their own.
To the swelling ranks of thousands of Civil War re-enactors, Ray
Pickett is the very image of a modern, mustachioed Confederate
major general.
But to the chagrin of a growing cadre of Pickett family members
and, apparently, to Pickett himself, what Ray Pickett isn't is a
relative of the dashing warrior. Pickett, it seems, is not the
Pickett he said he was.
"It makes my skin crawl," said one genuine Pickett descendant,
labeling Ray Pickett a poseur who ingratiated himself to family
members and was a major presence at family ceremonies. That
includes the reinterment of General Pickett's wife's remains six
years ago at Hollywood Cemetery.
"It was a day full of a lot of meaning for our family," Ray
Pickett, then the family spokesman, said in words that have
proved prophetic.
These days Pickett is fighting a rear-guard action defending his
motives and pressing ahead with Civil War pursuits in the guise
of someone other than a descendant of the general.
"I'm not hiding anything here; there's nothing here to be
crawling under a rock about," Pickett said in a recent telephone
interview. "It's a legitimate concern and I realize some people
might be disap- pointed, or disenchanted, and maybe some are
seething with hatred right now. But it was never about me; it
was about the general."
A New Yorker who since childhood was mesmerized with family lore
that General Pickett was an ancestor, Pickett now acknowledges
that he can't prove a familial link - either to George or to
George's brother, Charles, also a veteran, whom Ray Pickett
believes he is directly descended from.
"The bottom line is that I can't prove that I am related and I
can't prove that I'm not related. I'm in limbo. It's the
collapse of a belief I've had since I was 5 years old," said
Pickett, who lives on Long Island and is known to thousands of
fellow re-enactors as a descendant of the general.
Pickett, 43, helped actors with background about his supposed
ancestors for epic Civil War movies. He briefly appeared in the
movie "Gods and Generals" in the role of Charles Pickett. And he
played the general himself in talks to history-minded groups,
such as the United Daughters of the Confederacy and the Greater
Astoria Historical Society.
"A great-great-grand nephew of the great Civil War General!" an
advertising blurb said of the lecture Pickett gave this year in
New York.
And at the 135th re-enactment of the Gettysburg campaign in July
1998, Pickett was a center of attention, playing the role of the
general and leading to bloodless slaughter nearly as many
soldiers as the real Pickett had led to death.
Dressed in full military gear, Pickett glared at his costumed
followers that steamy day and said this:
"I am very honored and proud. In my 22 years of re-enacting,
never have I felt worthy of portraying my ancestor. But today,
at the largest gathering of North and South since the war, I
will command you."
But his most personal entry into the life of General Pickett
came with his involvement in The Pickett Society. Based in
Richmond, the society is a loosely knit but devoted group of
Pickett descendants and followers who celebrate the general and
publish a newsletter about him. It's dedicated to erasing myths
about the soldier.
Ray Pickett became a charming addition to the society shortly
after it was formed in 1999 and was so enthusiastic that he
agreed to serve as chairman of the group, members said.
It soon became evident that Pickett was unknown to other
descendants.
Pickett, they said, wasn't even able to produce documentation
from death and birth certificates. "He's refused to take a DNA
test," said Pickett Society President Pat Wood, a longtime
member of the United Daughters of the Confederacy who led
efforts to restore General Pickett's gravesite at Hollywood
Cemetery seven years ago.
She had met Pickett at a re-enactment and turned to him for
family approval to begin the restoration work, she said.
In a February 1997 letter, citing his position as Pickett's
"great-great-grand nephew," Ray Pickett OK'd the work, praised
the effort and wrote of the responsibility borne by Confederate
descendants.
"I cannot think of a more noble practice than caring for the
graves of our glorious Confederate dead," Pickett wrote.
Pickett said in a telephone interview that he's a member of the
Sons of Confederate Veterans, which is open to direct
descendants of Confederate soldiers, and he worked with two
chapters of the United Daughters of the Confederacy to bestow
two Crosses of Military Service to his father. The honor
recognizes a Confederate soldier's descendant for his military
service. A Pickett Society Web site still shows Ray Pickett the
day he was inducted into the George E. Pickett Chapter of the
Military Order of Stars and Bars.
As Pickett's lineage claims became questionable, they were
removed from Pickett Society literature, and the society will
begin efforts to formally remove him as chairman.
"I've been cleansed," Pickett said, adding that he hopes his
father will keep his UDC medals. "I don't see why there should
be some effort to take back medals from an 82-year-old man."
He said he's in the process of informing various Confederate
memorial societies of his problems establishing lineage. He said
he also has revealed the problem to members of the New
York-based re-enactment company he organized two decades ago,
Company B of the 57th Virginia Infantry Regiment, the Franklin
County Sharpshooters.
Bryan Sharp, who works with the national office of the Sons of
Confederate Veterans in Tennessee, declined to discuss specifics
of Pickett's status.
"It's really a system that operates on trust," he said,
acknowledging that most divisions don't require documentation of
ancestry. "It's really not a problem that comes up very much."
But the 100-member-strong Pickett Society, about 10 percent of
whom are descendants, is growing increasingly frustrated by
Pickett's inability to document his ancestry.
"The whole thing about The Pickett Society is truth and
credibility," said interim Chairman Dwight Wood, who is Pat
Wood's husband and a Richmond resident. Any future member
claiming ties to the Pickett family will have to show "immediate
and irrefutable documentation," he said.
Ray Pickett said he's working with a professional genealogist to
ferret out a possible connection, but Pickett Society members
are closing ranks. Pickett said he stepped aside voluntarily in
April.
"It's slow going," Pickett, a service manager for a coffee
company in New York, said of the hunt for a family tie that
would bind him to the general.
Pickett said he believes his connection to the general runs
through John Smith Pickett, Charles' older son and General
Pickett's nephew. John Smith Pickett was a salesman who lived
for years in New York.
But a death certificate and a newspaper obituary show that John
died single in 1910 and left no children. Based on Pickett's
theory of lineage, John Smith Pickett would have been an infant
when he fathered Ray Pickett's great-grandfather, according to
Sons of Confederate Veterans documents submitted by Ray
Pickett's family.
"It's correct to say that I feel very deceived," said Henry Clay
Pickett III, a great-great-grandson of Charles Pickett.
Henry Clay Pickett, 44, said he befriended Ray Pickett and even
has done re-enacting with him. "He's never done anything to
detract from the general, but the fact that he won't come
forward and admit to us that he was deceiving us really makes
him a questionable person," said Pickett, who goes by Clay and
lives in eastern Virginia.
Whatever his ancestry, Ray Pickett said he's proud of the role
he has played in helping to restore the reputation of the
often-maligned general.
"I never thought I'd see that in my lifetime," Pickett said.
He was referring to a Southern-motivated effort to place a lot
of the blame for Gettysburg on Pickett's shoulders. Pickett, a
genuine war hero for much of his military service, came to be
regarded unfairly as something of a dandy, according to Ray
Pickett.
More hurtful to society members is that Pickett unflinchingly
took part in private, personal ceremonies that have helped bond
descendants and bring them closer to their ancestor.
And disclosures about Pickett haven't helped the family get past
the travails several years ago of another descendant. In that
case, George E. Pickett V sold off military heirlooms of the
general's at bargain-basement prices; they are now housed in a
Harrisburg, Pa., museum.
A key event that still grates on family members and others was
the re-interment of Pickett's wife, Sallie, at Hollywood
Cemetery in March 1998. The ceremony, which attracted 400
spectators and dozens of re-enactors and featured cannon fire,
made a reality Sallie's last wish: to be buried beside her
husband. Sallie Corbell Pickett died in 1931, 56 years after her
much older husband. Their separation lasted 123 years.
Ray Pickett was at the ceremony and the next day served as a
family spokesman when General Pickett's refurbished monument was
dedicated.
Pickett said he was merely being helpful and one participant in
the event, Barbara Childress, said she's never doubted Pickett's
sincerity. "It was heartbreaking for me to hear about the
[lineage issue] because Ray is such a good person and his family
are such good people," she said.
Childress, a longtime UDC official, said tracking one's
ancestors is always tricky and she noted that Sallie Corbell
Pickett's tombstone at Hollywood originally had the wrong
birthdate. And the use on the tombstone of the name LaSalle as
Sallie's first name is not totally accurate, said Childress.
"LaSalle was a stage name," she said.
That should be heartening to Ray Pickett, who said last week
that he hasn't abandoned hope that he'll find the skeleton key
that will unlock his past.
Citing the fact that three Picketts settled on the East Coast,
Pickett said, "Somewhere along the line - very, very distantly
perhaps - I am definitely related. But not the way people,
myself included, would have liked to have thought."
And if push comes to shove and Pickett is drummed out of the
Sons of Confederate Veterans, he said he'll merely reapply. "An
ancestor of my mother's fought for a Louisiana unit," he said
cheerily.
Meanwhile, Ray Pickett is gathering the 57th Virginia for a
re-enactment next weekend of the Battle of Cedar Creek near
Winchester. It's expected to draw 10,000 re-enactors and
thousands more spectators.
General Pickett, who became an insurance agent after the war and
died in Norfolk in 1875, didn't fight in that battle, so Ray
Pickett will portray another soldier. Clay Pickett, the genuine
Pickett descendant who once thought he was Ray's cousin, will be
there, too.
"I hope we don't meet," he said.
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graduated at West Point in 1846; served with distinction in the
8th U. S. Inf, in the Mexican War, under Gen. Scott; entered as
2nd Lieut., and rose to the Captaincy; was stationed at the
various Forts, in Texas, Oregon and Washington, where the Indian
Wars were then raging. In 1859 he occupied the Island of San
Juan, the ownership of which was in question between the United
States and Great Britain;
in 1861, when Virginia seceded, he resigned his commission in
the U.S.A. and at once offered his services to the C.S.; entered
the Army and served as Major in Corps of Artillery, March 16,
1861; Brig. Gen., March 16, 1862; Major Gen., Oct. 10, 1862; his
famous charge at Gettysburg, has made his name immortal; was a
staunch and liberal Churchman.
He m. (first) Sally Harrison Minge, b. March 28, 1833; dau. of
Collier Harrison and Anna Maria (Ladd) Minge, of Mobile,
Alabama., and gr.-dau. of John and Sarah (Harrison) Minge, of
"Weynoke," Charles City Co., Va.; (second) LaSalle Corbell,
living 1909, in Washington, D. C. She is an authoress and
lecturer of note; dau. of Dr. John D. and Elizabeth (Phillips)
Corbell, of "Chuckatuck," Nansemond Co., Va.; no issue by first
marriage. (See Collier and Harrison lineage.) Issue by second
marriage:
7--1. George E., Jr., Major, U. S. A., educated at West Point,
rendered distinguished services during the Spanish American War,
and is now (in 1909) stationed in California; m. Ida
Christiancy, dau.of Col. H. S. Christiancy, U. S. A., and had
issue. 1. Geo. E. III. 2. Corbell.
7--2. Corbell, d. young
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