| 词条 | George Paul Harrison Sr. |
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|name = George Paul Harrison Sr. |birth_date = {{Birth date|1813|10|19}} |death_date = {{Death date and age|1888|5|14|1813|10|19}} |birth_place = Effingham County, Georgia |death_place = Chatham County, Georgia |placeofburial = Savannah, Georgia |allegiance = {{flag|Confederate States of America}} |branch = {{flagicon image|Flag_of_Georgia_non_official.svg}} Georgia militia |serviceyears = 1861–1862; 1864–1865 |rank = Brigadier General |servicenumber = |unit = |commands = |battles = American Civil War |battles_label = |awards = |relations = |laterwork = Georgia State representative, court clerk |signature = }} George Paul Harrison Sr. (October 19, 1813 – May 14, 1888) was a brigadier general in the Georgia militia from 1856–1861,[1] commander of the 1st Brigade in the Georgia State Troops[1] and a colonel in Georgia's First Military District in 1864–1865 during the American Civil War (Civil War). He was a prisoner of war for several months near the end of the war. George P. Harrison Sr. was a rice planter, brigadier general in the Georgia militia and member of the Georgia House of Representatives before the Civil War. After the war, Harrison was a state representative in 1865–1866, a delegate to the state constitutional convention, a clerk of the city court of Savannah, Georgia and clerk of the superior court of Chatham County, Georgia. He was the father of George Paul Harrison Jr., a Confederate States Army colonel, who commanded a brigade late in the war and was later an Alabama State Senator and a two-term member of the United States House of Representatives from Alabama.[2][3][4] Early lifeGeorge Paul Harrison Sr. was born in Effingham County, Georgia on October 19, 1813.[2][5][6] He was the son of Colonel William Harrison, a colonel of Georgia militia in the War of 1812 and Mary (Keller) Harrison.[5][7] Harrison was the father of George Paul Harrison Jr., a Confederate States Army colonel who commanded a brigade near the end of the Civil War and later was an Alabama state senator and a U.S. Representative from Alabama.[2][3][4] Harrison was a rice planter on his Savannah River plantation, Monteith, now a location within Port Wentworth, Georgia, which is within the Savannah metropolitan area.[5][8] Before the Civil War, Harrison was a representative for Chatham County in the Georgia House of Representatives in 1842, 1849–1850, 1853–1854; and 1857–1860.[5] He also became a brigadier general in the Georgia militia.[9] He was a delegate to Democrat state party conventions in 1858 and 1860.[3] American Civil WarAfter the outbreak of the Civil War, Georgia Governor Joseph E. Brown appointed Harrison a brigadier general of state troops to rank from September 14, 1861.[2][3][10] Harrison was assigned to establish a training camp near Savannah and to organize the regiments for the new troops.[3] Harrison did this, and led a force guarding the Georgia coast, during the winter of 1861–1862, after which his command was terminated.[3] Under a new militia law in 1864, Harrison was appointed colonel in charge of Georgia's First Military District with the duties of destroying whiskey stills and tracking down deserters.[2][3] Soon, Harrison's command was required to oppose Sherman's March to the Sea.[3] When they reached the Savannah area, Sherman's men pillaged Harrison's home and property at Montieth.[3] In December 1864, Harrison was taken prisoner while visiting his devastated property.[2][3] Harrison was released from prison before the end of the war but refused to take the oath of allegiance to the United States government.[3] Later lifeAfter the Civil War, Harrison returned to the Savannah area.[3] He was elected to the Georgia House of Representatives for 1865–1866 and served as a delegate to the Georgia constitutional convention.[3] He was elected court clerk of the City Court of Savannah, Georgia and clerk of the Superior Court of Chatham County, Georgia.[2][3] George Paul Harrison Sr. died at his home on his farm in Chatham County, Georgia near Savannah, Georgia on May 14, 1888.[3] He is buried at Laurel Grove Cemetery, Savannah, Georgia.[2] See also{{portal|American Civil War|Biography|Georgia (U.S. state)|Politics}}
Notes1. ^1 Smith, p. 303 2. ^1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Eicher, John H., and David J. Eicher, Civil War High Commands. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2001. {{ISBN|0-8047-3641-3}}. p. 283. 3. ^1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 Allardice, Bruce S. [https://books.google.com/books?id=d7kKuAZFDu0C&pg=PA125 More Generals in Gray.] Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1995. {{ISBN|0-8071-3148-2}} (pbk.). Retrieved September 16, 2012. p. 125. 4. ^1 Allardice, Bruce S. Confederate Colonels: A Biographical Register. Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 2008. {{ISBN|978-0-8262-1809-4}}. pp. 184–185. 5. ^1 2 3 Allardice, 1995. p. 124. 6. ^Allardice, 1995, p. 125, states that another source which gives Harrison's birth year as 1814 contradicts a newspaper article in the Savannah Morning News, May 17, 1888, which gave his age as consistent with an 1813 birth year. 7. ^Allardice states that despite statements that Harrison was related to President William Henry Harrison, he could find no source that shows a relationship to the Harrison family of Virginia. 8. ^'Monteith map'. Retrieved October 8, 2012. 9. ^Allardice, 1995, pp. 124–125. 10. ^Eicher, 2001, p. 283 shows Harrison as a major general of Georgia militia before his appointment as a Confederate brigadier general of state militia. References
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