Before the war, Frederick West Lander was an Army engineering officer and a famous transcontinental explorer who discovered several routes westward across the United States. He was also a published poet of some note and the husband of the famous English-born actress, Jean Davenport, who he had married in 1860. He had been commissioned a brigadier-general and badly wounded early in the war. Later, he fell ill with pneumonia and died from a stroke at his headquarters in Paw Paw, Virginia. He was forty years old. (By John Osborne)
Source Citation
Frank Moore, ed., The Rebellion Record: A Diary of American Events, with Documents, Narratives, Illustrative Incidents, Poetry, Etc. (New York: G.P.Putnam, 1862), IV: 46.
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Battles/Soldiers
