Confederate Colonel James Strawbridge

Henry Hepburn Strawbridge had a brother James who was a colonel in the Confederate Army. James was born August 11, 1821, in Philadelphia. He married Marie C. Hepburn in 1849 in New Orleans. James was a colonel of the 1st Louisiana Regulars, and temporarily colonel of the 18th Alabama Infantry, during the Civil War. He was also a lieutenant, Washington artillery of New Orleans, during the Mexican War.
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I came across this entry but lost the source from which I found it, sorry.

In 1870 Strawbridge was in New Orleans, where he had been raised and entered Confederate service, and where he served as a fire underwriter and lived with his 19-year-old son Edward, sister Sarah, and mother Frances. By 1880 Stawbridge lived in Iberia Parish Louisiana. A retired lawyer, he was 58 and lived with his brother, 57, and sister, 60. He filed his Mexican pension application in 1889, stating, “I am disabled by reason of age and partial paralysis.”
The colonel died on February 27, 1891, “at the resident of his son, in [Washington] St. Landry parish, La…in his 70th____

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Bruce Allardice, a frequent contributor to these boards, wrote some time ago that he “ . . is writing a book on the Civil War. The book will have a biographical paragraph on Col. Strawbridge . . .”