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advocate of that measure. He was sent as commissioner to the Virginia convention in January, 1861. In a speech of great zeal, ability and eloquence, he urged upon that body the adoption of a similar ordinance. In August, 1861, he entered the Confederate service as colonel of the Seventeenth Georgia Brig.-Gen. Geo. Thos. Anderson. Brig.-Gen. W. M. Gardner. Brig.--Gen. Francis. S. Bartow. Brig.-Gen. Goode Bryan. Brig.-Geo. Doles. Brig.--Gen. W. R. Boggs. Brig.-Gen. R. H. Anderson. Brig.-Gen. Alfred. Cumming. Brig.--Gen. V. J. B. Girardey. Brig.-Gen. Philip Cook. regiment, and for some time was in command of Toombs' brigade of the army in Virginia. In little more than a year from his enlistment he was promoted to brigadier-general, and he was frequently in command of Hood's famous division of the First corps, participating with gallantry in the battles of Second Manassas, Sharpsburg, Fredericksburg, Chickamauga, Wilderness, Thoroughfare Gap, Malvern Hill, Lookout Valley, Fort Lo