- Date:
- 1880
- Original Format:
- Photographic Print
- Item#:
- MES04022
Alfred Holt Colquitt (1824-1894)
Alfred H. Colquitt was a soldier in the Mexican War and during the Civil War, he was a major general for the Confederacy whose forces won the battle of Olustee in Florida in 1864. As a politician, Colquitt served in the United States Congress as a representative and a senator and also as the governor of the state of Georgia. As a licensed Methodist preacher, he was an early champion of temperance and was at one time the president of the International Sunday School convention.
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- Chaplains & Clergy
- Senate
- House of Representatives
- Confederacy & Confederate Army
- Civil War
- Mexican War
- Army & Soldiers