# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/raleigh-e-colston
# Generated: 2026-08-13T09:14:27.797Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/raleigh-e-colston"
name: "Raleigh E. Colston"
slug: "raleigh-e-colston"
description: "Raleigh Edward Colston was a French-born American professor, soldier, cartographer, and writer. He was a controversial brigadier general in the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War. Colston was among a handful of former Confederates who served in Egypt following the war."
tagline: "American general (1825–1896)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Raleigh_Edward_Colston%2C_C.S.A.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Scientists"
  slug: "scientists"
profileType:
  name: "Scientist"
  slug: "scientist"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1825-10-01"
deathDate: "1896-07-29"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           44.14
  momentum:             12.38217928073001
  historical:           4.81818
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     30
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "راليه كولستون"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B1%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%8A%D9%87_%D9%83%D9%88%D9%84%D8%B3%D8%AA%D9%8A%D9%86"
    title: "راليه كولستين"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raleigh_Edward_Colston"
    title: "Raleigh Edward Colston"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raleigh_E._Colston"
    title: "Raleigh E. Colston"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9A%D0%BE%D0%BB%D1%81%D1%82%D0%BE%D0%BD%2C_%D0%A0%D1%8D%D0%BB%D0%B5%D0%B9"
    title: "Колстон, Рэлей"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2129109"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump