VMI's Civil War Generals
James E. Slaughter, Class of 1848
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Biographical Information

Early Life
James Edwin Slaughter, born 1827, Culpeper Co., Virginia. Parents: Daniel French Slaughter and Letitia Madison. Grandparents: Philip Slaughter/Margaret French Strother; William Madison/Frances Throckmorton.

VMI record
Enrolled on August 6, 1845 and resigned on July 6, 1846.

Marriage
Never married

Pre-Civil War
Served in United States Army from 1847 until outbreak of Civil War, when he resigned to join Confederate Army.

Civil War

1861 appointed 1st Lt. CSA Artillery and served on Beauregard's staff in Alabama and Florida; appointed Brigadier General in March 1862; on staff of Gen. Bragg in Mississippi and Alabama; 1863 April to Texas as Magruder's Chief of Artillery; remained in Texas until end of war; he went to Mexico after Lee's surrender.

Post-war

Civil Engineer; lived in Mexico for several years and then returned to live in Mobile, Alabama and subsequently in New Orleans, LA; died in Mexico City on January 1, 1901 and was buried there.

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