Francis S. Bartow

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Confederate Army general and American politician (1816-1861)

United States PoliticiansLived 1816 to 1861 · aged 44

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Facsimile of the 1861 Ordinance of Secession signed by Bartow and 292 other delegates to the Georgia Secession Convention at the statehouse in Milledgeville, Georgia January 21, 1861.

Map of the events of the battle

Marker of 1936

Memorial and bust of Francis S. Bartow in Savannah's Forsyth Park.

Politicians from United States 6

Edward Irving Edwards42.5

William Carney42.5

Boyd K. Rutherford42.5 Beverley Randolph42.5

Ann Bedsole42.5

James P. Kem42.4

About this person

Francis Stebbins Bartow was an American lawyer and politician from Georgia. He served two terms in the United States House of Representatives and became a politician in the Confederate States of America. Bartow was also a colonel in the Georgia Militia commanding the 21st Oglethorpe Light Infantry during the early months of the American Civil War. Bartow was a delegate from Georgia's 1st congressional district to the Southern Convention in Montgomery, Alabama becoming an inaugurating member of the Confederate Provisional Congress - leading efforts to prepare local forces in the aftermath of secession, protracting into The American Civil War of 1861-65.

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