John B. Gordon
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John Brown Gordon was an American politician, Confederate States Army general, attorney, slaveowner and planter. "One of Robert E. Lee's most trusted generals" by the end of the Civil War, according to historian Ed Bearss, he strongly opposed Reconstruction.
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Gordon portrait by Mathew Brady, c. 1855-1865
John C. Gordon, a man who had been owned by John B. Gordon, joined the Union's 12th United States Colored Infantry Regiment in 1863 (The Salina Daily Union, May 5, 1910)
John Brown Gordon statue by sculptor Solon Borglum, located on the northeastern part of the grounds of the Georgia State Capitol
Gordon's grave, Oakland Cemetery, Atlanta, GeorgiaPoliticians from United States 6
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John Brown Gordon was an American politician, Confederate States Army general, attorney, slaveowner and planter. "One of Robert E. Lee's most trusted generals" by the end of the Civil War, according to historian Ed Bearss, he strongly opposed Reconstruction. A member of the Democratic Party, he was twice elected by the Georgia state legislature as a United States Senator, serving from 1873 to 1880, and again from 1891 to 1897. He served two terms as the 53rd governor of Georgia from 1886 to 1890.
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