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Joseph T. Derry , A. M. , Author of School History of the United States; Story of the Confederate War, etc., Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 6, Georgia (ed. Clement Anselm Evans) 4 0 Browse Search
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Joseph T. Derry , A. M. , Author of School History of the United States; Story of the Confederate War, etc., Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 6, Georgia (ed. Clement Anselm Evans), Biographical (search)
enn., where he now resides with his son. Brigadier-General Lucius J. Gartrell Brigadier-General Lucius J. Gartrell was born in Wilkes county, Ga., January 7, 1821. The family was of Scotch descent, and originally settled in Maryland. Joseph Gartrell, grandfather of the general, came from Maryland to Wilkes county, and his son, Joseph Gartrell, prominent as a planter and merchant, married a daughter of Dr. Josiah Boswell, a physician and planter, who also coming from Maryland, had settleJoseph Gartrell, prominent as a planter and merchant, married a daughter of Dr. Josiah Boswell, a physician and planter, who also coming from Maryland, had settled in Columbia county. Their son, Lucius Gartrell, was educated at Randolph-Macon college, Va., from 1838 to 1841, and at the university of Georgia for one year. He studied law in the office of Robert Toombs, at Washington, Ga., and was admitted to the bar by the Lincoln superior court in 1842. Forming a partnership with Isaiah T. Irwin, he began the practice at Washington, the county seat of Wilkes. For four years from 1843 he was solicitor-general of the Northern judicial circuit, and was