Coxe, John Redman

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Class of 1849
    Full name
    John Redman Coxe
    Place of Birth
    Birth Date Certainty
    Exact
    Death Date Certainty
    Exact
    Gender
    Male
    Race
    White
    Sectional choice
    North
    Origins
    Free State
    No. of Spouses
    1
    No. of Children
    1
    Family
    Edward J. Coxe (father), Mary Clapier Coxe (mother), Catherine Clifton Bridges (wife), Mary Louisa Coxe (daughter)
    Education
    Dickinson (Carlisle College)
    Harvard
    Occupation
    Military
    Attorney or Judge
    Businessman
    Relation to Slavery
    White non-slaveholder
    Military
    Union Army
    US military (Post-Civil War)

    John Redman Coxe (Dickinson Alumni Record)

    Reference
    Coxe, John Redman---Born October 6, 1829, in Philadelphia, Pa.; p., Edward J and Mary L. (Clapier) Coxe; prep., James Cronell's School, West Chester, Pa.; entered 1845; Harvard Law School 1849, and graduated 1851; A. B. and A. M., Dickinson; real estate; issuing commissary of subsistence, headquarters army of the Potomac; captain, August 28, 1862, serving under Generals McClellan, Burnside, Hooker and Meade, commissary general, national guard of Pennsylvania, with rank of brigadier general, 1877-79; U. P. society; married December 23, 1863 to Catharine Cliffton Bridges of Philadelphia; child, Mary Louisa.  Address, 1314 Pine Street, Philadelphia, Pa.
    George Leffingwell Reed, ed., Alumni Record: Dickinson College (Carlisle, PA: Dickinson College, 1905), 134.
    How to Cite This Page: "Coxe, John Redman," House Divided: The Civil War Research Engine at Dickinson College, https://hd.housedivided.dickinson.edu/node/5486.