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Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 23. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), chapter 1.16 (search)
coolness, and good judgment, the youngest major-general in the army, his rapid promotion from the grade of lieutenant was due alone to his gallant and meritorious conduct and fitness to command. Hoke had many able officers and men under him who have been distinguished in public life since the war. Jarvis, of Clingman's Brigade; Colquitt, of Georgia, and Hagood, of South Carolina, were Governors of their respective States at the same time. One of his gallant young staff officers, Captain S. B. Alexander (taken from the Forty-second North Carolina troops) has honorably represented his county in the Legislature and his District in Congress, and at the same session of the latter Lieutenant W. A. B. Branch, one of Hoke's aides, son of the hero L. O'B. Branch, was his colleague. Lieutenant A. Leazer, of the Forty-second North Carolina troops, and Adjutant George H. Rose, of the Fiftieth North Carolina troops, were both Speakers of the General Assembly of North Carolina. To the fiel