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Alfred Holt Colquitt (April 20, 1824 March 26, 1894) was a lawyer, preacher, soldier, Governor of Georgia and two term U.S. Senator
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 from Georgia
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 where he died in office. He served as an officer in the Confederate
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 army, reaching the rank of major general
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.

uitt was born in Monroe, Georgia
Monroe, Georgia

Monroe is a city in Walton County, Georgia, Georgia , United States. The population was 11,409 at the 2000 census. The city is the county seat of Walton County, Georgia....
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Alfred Holt Colquitt
Alfred Holt Colquitt (April 20, 1824 March 26, 1894) was a lawyer, preacher, soldier, Governor of Georgia and two term U.S. Senator
United States Senate

The United States Senate is the upper house of the Bicameralism United States Congress, the lower house being the United States House of Representatives....
 from Georgia
Georgia (U.S. state)

Georgia is a U.S. state in the United States and was one of the original Thirteen Colonies that revolted against United Kingdom rule in the American Revolution....
 where he died in office. He served as an officer in the Confederate
Confederate States of America

The Confederate States of America formed as the government set up from 1861 to 1865 by eleven Southern United States U.S. state of the United States of America that had declared their secession from the U.S....
 army, reaching the rank of major general
Major general (United States)

In the United States Army, United States Marine Corps, and United States Air Force, major general is a 2 star rank general officer rank, with the U.S....
.

Biography

Colquitt was born in Monroe, Georgia
Monroe, Georgia

Monroe is a city in Walton County, Georgia, Georgia , United States. The population was 11,409 at the 2000 census. The city is the county seat of Walton County, Georgia....
. His father, Walter T. Colquitt
Walter T. Colquitt

Walter Terry Colquitt was a lawyer, Circuit rider Methodist preacher, United States House of Representatives and United States Senate from Georgia ....
 was a United States Representative and Senator from Georgia. Alfred graduated from Princeton College in 1844, studied law and passed his bar examination
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 in 1846. He began practicing law in Monroe. During the Mexican-American War, he served in the United States Army
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 at the rank of major
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. After the war, Colquitt was elected as a member of the United States House of Representatives
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 from 1853 to 1855. He then served in the Georgia state legislature. In 1861, he was a delegate to the state secession
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 convention.

At the beginning of the Civil War
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, he was appointed captain in the Sixth Georgia Infantry. He saw action in the Peninsula Campaign
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 and the Seven Days' Battles. He rose through the ranks to become a brigadier general
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 in 1862. He led his brigade under Stonewall Jackson
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 in the Battle of South Mountain
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, Battle of Antietam
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, the Battle of Fredericksburg
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, and the Battle of Chancellorsville
Battle of Chancellorsville

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. After Chancellorsville, some questions arose about Colquitt's performance during that battle and his brigade was transferred to North Carolina
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 in exchange for another. His brigade was transferred again in the summer of 1863 to protect Charleston, South Carolina
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. In February 1864, Colquitt marched his brigade south to help defend against the Union invasion of Florida
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, and was victorious in the Battle of Olustee
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. After this battle, Colquitt's brigade rejoined Robert E. Lee
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's Army of Virginia
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. Late in the war, the brigade returned to defend North Carolina where Colquitt surrendered in 1865.

He defeated Republican candidate Jonathan Norcross
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 for Governor of Georgia in 1876 and was reelected in 1880 to serve two years under the new state constitution
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. He was opposed to Reconstruction. In 1883, he was elected as a Democrat
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 to the United States Senate. He was re-elected in 1888 and served until his death in Washington, D.C.
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