Arthur P. Bagby, Jr.
| Arthur P. Bagby, Jr. | |
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| Born |
May 17, 1833 Claiborne, Alabama |
| Died | February 21, 1921 (aged 87) Hallettsville, Texas |
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| Service/branch |
 United States Army Confederate States Army
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| Years of service | 1852–53 (USA), 1861–65 (CSA) |
| Rank |
 Second Lieutenant (US) Brigadier General (CSA) |
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| Other work | Lawyer |
Arthur Pendleton Bagby, Jr. (May 17, 1833 – February 21, 1921) was a lawyer, editor, and Confederate States Army colonel during the American Civil War. Confederate General E. Kirby Smith, commander of the Trans-Mississippi Department assigned Bagby to duty as a brigadier general on April 13, 1864 to date from March 17, 1864 and as a major general on May 16, 1865. These extra-legal appointments were not made official by appointments of Bagby to general officer grade by Confederate President Jefferson Davis or by confirmation by the Confederate Senate.
Bagby was born in Claiborne, Alabama on May 17, 1833. He was a son of Alabama Governor Arthur P. Bagby and his second wife, Anne Connell. He attended school in Washington, D.C.. He was appointed to the United States Military Academy at West Point, New York in 1847. In 1852, at age 19, he was the youngest graduate to be commissioned a brevetsecond lieutenant of infantry in the 8th U.S. Infantry Regiment. He was stationed at Fort Columbus in 1852-53, and he saw frontier duty at Fort Chadbourne in 1853. Bagby resigned on September 30, 1853 to study law and was admitted to the bar in Alabama in 1855. He practiced in Mobile, Alabama, until 1858, when he moved to Gonzales, Texas where he practiced law until after the start of the Civil War. There, he married Frances Taylor in June 1860.
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