| 词条 | Alfred Madison Barbour |
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|name = Alfred Madison Barbour |image = |image_size = |caption = | state_delegate = Virginia | district = Monongalia County | term_start = December 7, 1857 | term_end= March, 1861 | preceded =William Lantz | alongside=A. G. Davis | succeeded =Andrew Brown |birth_name = Alfred Madison Barbour |birth_date = {{Birth date|1829|04|17}} |birth_place = Culpeper County, Virginia |death_date = {{Death date and age|1866|04|04|1829|04|17}} |death_place = Montgomery, Alabama |body_discovered = |death_cause = |resting_place = Fairview Cemetery, Culpeper, Virginia |resting_place_coordinates = |residence = |nationality = American |citizenship = United States of America Confederate States of America |other_names = |known_for = |education = |alma_mater = University of Virginia Harvard University |employer = |occupation = lawyer, politician, soldier |years_active = |home_town = |salary = |networth = |height = |weight = |title = |term = |party = Democratic Party |opponents = |boards = |religion = Presbyterian |spouse = Kate Daniels |partner = |children = |parents = John S. Barbour Ella A. Byrne |relations = brother of John S. Barbour, Jr. first cousin once removed of James Barbour and Philip Pendleton Barbour |callsign = |signature = |website = |footnotes = |allegiance={{flagcountry|Confederate States of America}} |rank= Major(CSA) |branch={{flagdeco|Virginia|1861}} Virginia Militia {{army|CSA}} |commands= |unit= |battles= |awards= }}Alfred Madison Barbour (April 17, 1829 – April 4, 1866) was a Virginia lawyer, one-term delegate in the Virginia House of Delegates and also in the Virginia Secession Convention of 1861. He may be best known for his role as Superintendent of the Harpers Ferry Armory in Harpers Ferry, Virginia (now West Virginia) during John Brown's raid.[1] Although Barbour voted against secession, he became a major in the Confederate States Army and served as a quartermaster during the American Civil War.[2] Early lifeBarbour was born on April 17, 1829 on a plantation in Culpeper County, Virginia. He was the son of John S. Barbour, Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Virginia's 15th congressional district, and his wife Ella A. Byrne, and had several siblings.[2][1] Barbour attended the University of Virginia and Harvard Law School.[3] Government serviceReturning to Virginia, Barbour moved to the state's northwest corner. Monongalia County voters once elected him as one of their two representatives in the Virginia House of Delegates, where he served in 1857-58.[4] In January 1859, he was appointed as Superintendent at the federal armory in Harpers Ferry, Virginia (now West Virginia).[5] He served there until the American Civil War began in 1861.[6] In October 1859, abolitionist John Brown raided the arsenal. Brown's raiders captured the entire armory and town, which Brown knew to be minimally guarded by civilians, although ultimately he failed and was captured because he remained in town too long.[6] Recent research questions whether Brown really attempted to steal the weapons to support a slave rebellion, considering that explanation Virginia slaveholder propaganda.[7] Barbour wrote that he was visiting the federal armory at Springfield, Massachusetts. "Had I been here, I could have done no good. Old Brown would have taken Gen. Scott if he had been here. A military man could have done nothing more than a civilian, unless there had been a corps of soldiers under him. . . . It is ridiculous to talk about it, as if the presence of a military man [at Harper's Ferry] would have awed Old Brown."[8] Despite the fiasco, voters from Jefferson County elected Barbour and fellow former delegate Logan Osburn to represent them in the Virginia Secession Convention of 1861. While Osburn resolutely voted against secession on both April 4 and April 17, Barbour switched his vote, voting on April 17 to secede, as did his brother James Barbour, who was a delegate representing their native Culpeper County.[9] American Civil WarDuring the American Civil War, Barbour served in the Confederate States Army as a quartermaster, on the staff of Joseph E. Johnston as well as Leonidas Polk. By December 1861, he had been promoted to quartermaster of all the Confederate armies, but complaints soon arose that he failed to settle accounts, gambled extensively and managed loosely.[10] Major Barbour served in Meridian, Mississippi and by 1864 was demoted to assistant quartermaster in Montgomery, Alabama, where he remained after the war ended, although paroled in Greensboro. Jubal Anderson Early disliked Barbour, who termed him "not energetic or efficient."[11] DeathAlfred Madison Barbour died on April 4, 1866 in Montgomery, Alabama. His remains were returned to Culpeper, Culpeper County, Virginia and interred at Fairview Cemetery.[1] References1. ^1 2 {{cite web | url=https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/8684923 | title=Alfred Madison Barbour | date=Apr 26, 2004 | accessdate=2009-04-05 | publisher=Find A Grave | author=Find A Grave | deadurl=no | archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20090901221634/https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/8684923 | archivedate=2009-09-01 | df= }} {{Barbour family}}{{DEFAULTSORT:Barbour, Alfred Madison}}2. ^1 {{cite web | url=http://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/barbour.html | title=Index to Politicians: Barbour | date=March 24, 2009 | accessdate=2009-04-05 | publisher=The Political Graveyard | author=The Political Graveyard| archiveurl= https://web.archive.org/web/20090302115933/http://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/barbour.html| archivedate= 2 March 2009 | deadurl= no}} 3. ^Helen P. Trimpi, Crimson Confederates: Harvard Men who Fought for the South (University of Tennessee Press 2010) p. 12 4. ^Cynthia Miller Leonard, Virginia General Assembly 1619-1978 (Richmong, Virginia State Library 1978) p. 5. ^{{cite journal|last=United States Senate|year=1887|title=Thursday, January 13, 1859|journal=Journal of the Executive Proceedings of the Senate of the United States|publisher=Government Printing Office|volume=11|pages=34|url=https://books.google.com/?id=2dOGAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA34&dq=harpers+ferry+%22Alfred+M.+Barbour%22}} 6. ^1 {{cite book|last=Barry|first=Joseph |title=The Annals of Harper's Ferry: With Sketches of Its Founder, and Many Prominent Characters Connected with Its History, Anecdotes|publisher=Berkeley Union|year=1872|edition=2nd|pages=29–61|url=https://books.google.com/?id=G0LzUZv1tRkC}} 7. ^Louis A. DeCaro, Jr., Freedom's Dawn: The Last Days of John Brown in Virginia, (Lanham, Md.: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2015)pp. 31-35, 55-56. 8. ^See Alfred M. Barbour to Roger Pryor, Apr. 2, 1860, transcribed in "Notes and Queries," The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography Vol. XLII: 1 (1918): 175-76. 9. ^{{cite web |url=http://www.virginiamemory.com/docs/votes_on_secession.pdf |title=Archived copy |accessdate=2016-07-16 |deadurl=no |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20150708182338/http://www.virginiamemory.com/docs/votes_on_secession.pdf |archivedate=2015-07-08 |df= }} 10. ^Papers of Jefferson Davis, 1862, p. 98 available at {{cite web |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=4leeAgAAQBAJ&pg=PA98&l |title=Archived copy |accessdate=2017-06-13 |deadurl=no |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20171218021200/https://books.google.com/books?id=4leeAgAAQBAJ&pg=PA98&l |archivedate=2017-12-18 |df= }} 11. ^Robert E..L. Krick, Staff Officers in Gray: A Biographical Register of the Staff Officers in the Army of Northern Virginia(University of North Carolina Press 2003) p. 67 13 : 1829 births|1866 deaths|American Presbyterians|Barbour family|Confederate States Army officers|Harvard Law School alumni|People from Culpeper County, Virginia|People from Harpers Ferry, West Virginia|People of Virginia in the American Civil War|University of Virginia alumni|Virginia Democrats|Virginia lawyers|Virginia Secession Delegates of 1861 |
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