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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) 1 1 Browse Search
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s division, A. P. Hill's corps. He led this brigade ably, and was considered by General Longstreet one of the best brigadiers of the army. Since the end of the war General Sorrel has been a merchant in the city of Savannah, and connected with a steamship company. Brigadier-General Marcellus A. Stovall Brigadier-General Marcellus A. Stovall was born at Sparta, Ga., September 18, 1 818. Both of his grandfathers were officers in the Revolution of 1776, the maternal grandfather, Capt. John H. Lucas, being present at the surrender of Cornwallis. His father was Pleasant Stovall, a wealthy and successful merchant of Augusta, who sent his son to school in Massachusetts. In the winter of 1835, though only seventeen years old, Marcellus enlisted for the Seminole war, being the youngest man in the Richmond Blues of Augusta, Ga., and never missed a day of service in the entire expedition. In 1836 he entered the United States military academy at West Point, but was prevented from fini