Dudley M. DuBose
Confederate Army general (1834-1883)
Dudley McIver DuBose (October 28, 1834 – March 2, 1883) was an American lawyer, Confederate field officer and politician. He rose to the rank of Brigadier General in the Confederate Army during the American Civil War. Afterward, he later served one term in the United States House of Representatives from Georgia, 1871–1873.
Early and family life
Dudley McIver DuBose was born on October 28, 1834, near Memphis, Tennessee, to Alfred Bishop Cassells DuBose (born 1804) (also known as A.B.C. DuBose) and his second wife, the former Camilla Dunn, daughter of a local doctor. They had married the previous November at the Methodist Church. Their additional children included sons Alfred Jr. (born 1838), Julius (born 1840) and Swepson (born 1858); and daughters Elizabeth (born 1835), Catherine (born 1841), Harriet (born 1843), and Mytis DuBose (born 1850).
The family's DuBose ancestors were Protestant Huguenots from France who had immigrated to South Carolina, settling in the midlands, where A.B.C. DuBose was born. There they developed and operated plantations, dependent on the labor of enslaved African Americans. By 1800 the DuBose planters cultivated mostly cotton as a commodity crop.
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