LC control no. | n 50008420 |
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Descriptive conventions | rda |
Personal name heading | Taylor, Richard, 1826-1879 |
Variant(s) | Taylor, Dick, 1826-1879 |
Birth date | 1826-01-27 |
Death date | 1879-04-12 |
Place of birth | Springfield (Ky.) |
Place of death | New York (N.Y.) |
Affiliation | Confederate States of America. Army |
Profession or occupation | Legislators--United States Generals |
Found in | Parrish, T.M. Richard Taylor, soldier prince of Dixie, 1992: CIP info. (Richard Taylor, son of President Zachary Taylor; Dick Taylor) Obstinate heroism, 2020: ECIP data view summary (Book describes the three surrenders by Confederate armies that occurred after Robert E. Lee surrendered to U.S. Grant at Appomattox Courthouse [including] Richard Taylor's to Edward Canby) Texas handbook online, viewed November 11, 2019: Richard Taylor (1826-1879, Confederate general, only son of Margaret Mackall (Smith) and Gen. Zachary Taylor, born at Taylor family home, Springfield, near Louisville, Kentucky, on January 27, 1826; elected to the Louisiana Senate in 1855, affiliated first with the Whig party, then the American (Know-Nothing) party, and finally the Democratic party; elected colonel of the Ninth Louisiana Infantry, received promotion to brigadier general by order of President Jefferson Davis (his brother-in-law by Davis's first marriage to one of Taylor's sisters); April 12, 1879, died in New York City) |
Associated language | eng |