Brigadier-General Alexander Travis Hawthorn |
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Born |
Conecuh County, Alabama |
January 10, 1825
Died | May 31, 1899 Dallas, Texas |
(aged 74)
Buried at |
Greenwood Cemetery, Marshall, Texas (32°33′14.4″N 94°22′33.2″W / 32.554000°N 94.375889°WCoordinates: 32°33′14.4″N 94°22′33.2″W / 32.554000°N 94.375889°W) |
Allegiance |
United States Confederate States |
Service/branch |
United States Volunteers Confederate States Army |
Years of service | 1847–1848 (USA) 1861–1865 (CSA) |
Rank |
First Lieutenant (USV) Brigadier-General (CSA) |
Commands held |
6th Arkansas Infantry Regiment Hawthorn's Brigade |
Battles/wars | |
Spouse(s) | Anna Hawthorn |
Other work | Lawyer, merchant, Baptist minister |
Mexican–American War
American Civil War
Alexander Travis Hawthorn (January 10, 1825 – May 31, 1899) was a Brigadier-General from Arkansas in the Provisional Army of the Confederate States.
Alexander Travis Hawthorn was born in Conecuh County, Alabama on January 10, 1825 and was educated at Evergreen Academy and Mercer University. He then studied law at Yale University for two years, from 1846 to 1847, and relocated to Camden, Arkansas, where he commenced the practice of law.
When the 6th Arkansas Infantry Regiment was organized in 1861, Hawthorn was elected first its lieutenant Colonel and then, the following spring, was appointed its Colonel. He was present at the Battle of Shiloh and took a gallant part in the assault on Hindman Hill, in 1863, during the attack on Helena, Arkansas. In 1864 he led a brigade in Major General Churchill's division, during the joint campaign of the Federal Generals Banks and Steele; and was a participant in the Battle of Jenkins' Ferry. Meanwhile, he had been promoted Brigadier General from February 18, 1864. He continued in Churchill's division until the close of the Civil War.