Tazewell L. Hargrove

Tazewell Lee Hargrove (1830 – December 16, 1889) was a lawyer, politician, and Confederate Army officer who served as Attorney General of North Carolina. A Democrat before the Civil War he held office as a Republican after the war.

He was born in Townsville, North Carolina, and graduated from Randolph Macon College in 1848.[1] He served with the 44th North Carolina Infantry Regiment, was a lieutenant colonel, and reportedly helped defend a bridge against a superior force for several hours during the Civil War.[2] He was in Company A.[3][4][5][6] He was captured.[7]

A lawyer in Granville County, North Carolina,[8] he served as a delegate to North Carolina's Secession Convention.

In 1872 at the Republican Party's state convention, he was chosen unanimously as nominee for attorney general.[9] He was preceded as North Carolina Attorney General by William Marcus Shipp and succeeded by Thomas S. Kenan.

References

  1. ^ McCormick, James Gilchrist (October 23, 1900). "Personnel of the Convention of 1861". University Press – via Google Books.
  2. ^ "Defender of the South Anna Bridge - North Carolina Periodicals Index". digital.lib.ecu.edu.
  3. ^ "North Carolina in the American Civil War - 44th NC Regiment (Infantry)". www.carolana.com.
  4. ^ "Defenders of the South Anna Bridge - North Carolina Periodicals Index". digital.lib.ecu.edu.
  5. ^ Hess, Earl J. (April 3, 2003). Lee's Tar Heels: The Pettigrew-Kirkland-MacRae Brigade. Univ of North Carolina Press. ISBN 978-0-8078-6028-1 – via Google Books.
  6. ^ Newsome, Hampton (October 3, 2022). Gettysburg's Southern Front: Opportunity and Failure at Richmond. University Press of Kansas. ISBN 978-0-7006-3347-0 – via Google Books.
  7. ^ Ashe, Samuel A'Court (October 23, 1925). "From 1783 to 1925". C.L. Van Noppen – via Google Books.
  8. ^ "Confederate Veteran: Published Monthly in the Interest of Confederate Veterans and Kindred Topics". Broadfoot Publishing Company. October 23, 1926 – via Google Books.
  9. ^ Bassett, John Spencer; Mims, Edwin; Glasson, William Henry; Few, William Preston; Boyd, William Kenneth; Wannamaker, William Hane (October 23, 1912). "The South Atlantic Quarterly". Duke University Press – via Google Books.
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