Zebulon York
Confederate Army general
Zebulon York (October 10, 1819 – August 5, 1900) was a general in the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War. He was among a small group of Northern-born Confederate generals.
Early life
York was a native of Avon, Maine. His grandfather was aide-de-camp to General George Washington during the American Revolution and was present at the surrender of Lord Cornwallis following the Battle of Yorktown. York graduated from Transylvania University in Kentucky, and then studied law at the University of Louisiana.
He was a pre-war lawyer and cotton planter in the state of Louisiana. With his business partner E.J. Hoover, York was recorded as owning 782 people as slaves on their six plantations in Concordia Parish, which ranked them as the sixth largest slaveholders in the United States, as well as the second largest in Louisiana.
Civil War
When the state seceded from the Union in early 1861, York organized a company of the 14th Louisiana Infantry and served as its first captain. He was successively promoted to major and lieutenant colonel, and fought in the Peninsula Campaign in the summer of 1862. He was wounded during the Battle of Williamsburg.
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