Saxton, Rufus

Life Span
to
Full name
Rufus Saxton
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
Friends
Thomas Wentworth Higginson 
Family
Jonathan Ashley Saxton (father), Miranda Wright Saxton (mother), Matilda Gordon Thompson (wife)
Education
West Point (US Military Academy)
Other
Other Education
Deerfield Academy (MA)
Occupation
Military
Relation to Slavery
White non-slaveholder
Church or Religious Denomination
Unitarian or Universalist
Other Affiliations
Abolitionists (Anti-Slavery Society)
Transcendentalists
Government
Johnson Administration (1865-69)
Military
US military (Pre-Civil War)
Union Army
US military (Post-Civil War)
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