Francis S. Bartow

Francis Stebbins Bartow ( born September 6, 1816 in Savannah, Georgia, † July 21, 1861 in Manassas, Virginia) was an American lawyer, politician ( Whig Party ) and an officer in the Confederate Army.

Career

Francis Stebbins Bartow, son of Frances Lloyd Stebbins and Theodosius Bartow graduated from the University of Georgia and studied law at the Yale Law School in New Haven, Connecticut. He then returned to Savannah, where he began in 1837 after receiving his admission to practice as a lawyer. Bartow was a supporter of slavery. 1860 there were 89 slaves in his possession, the majority of them lived and worked on his plantation on the Savannah River in Chatham County.

During the 1840s, Bartow served two terms in the House of Representatives of Georgia and in the 1850s a term in the Senate from Georgia. In 1856 he was appointed Captain of the Savannah's Oglethorpe Light Infantry ( Militia ). The following year, he ran unsuccessfully for a seat in the U.S. House of Representatives for the first electoral district of Georgia. Bartow took then in 1861 as a delegate to the Secession Convention of Georgia in part and sat in the same year as a deputy in the Provisional Konföderiertenkongress.

After the outbreak of the civil war Bartow decided to fight for the newly established Confederacy. Then he went on with the Oglethorpe to Virginia, where he was later appointed Colonel in the eighth Infantry Regiment of Georgia. By July 1861 he had command of a brigade, which he led in combat at the First Battle of Manassas. On July 21, he succumbed to his injury, which he sustained in an attack on a Union battery at Henry Hill Hous. His body was then transferred back to Savannah, where he was buried in the Laurel Grove Cemetery.