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Full name
William Booth Taliaferro
Place of Birth
Bellville, VA
Burial Place
Gloucester, VA
Birth Date Certainty
Exact
Death Date Certainty
Exact
Gender
Male
Race
White
Sectional choice
South
Origins
Slave State
Education
Harvard
William & Mary
Occupation
Politician
Military
Attorney or Judge
Political Parties
Democratic
Government
State legislature
State judge
Local government
Military
US military (Pre-Civil War)
Confederate Army
Date Event
On Morris Island, South Carolina, Confederate defenders of Fort Wagner beat back a second heavy attack
The African-American 54th Massachusetts earns fame across the North with its brave attempt to storm Fort Wagner
Date Title
John Thomas Lewis Preston to Margaret Junkin Preston, December 2, 1859
Atchison (KS) Freedom’s Champion, “Paying the Piper,” January 28, 1860
Chicago Style Entry Link
Johnson, Ludwell H. "William Booth Taliaferro's Letters from Mexico, 1847-1848." Virginia Magazine of History and Biography 73, no. 4 (1965): 455-473. view record
How to Cite This Page: "Taliaferro, William Booth," House Divided: The Civil War Research Engine at Dickinson College, https://hd.housedivided.dickinson.edu/index.php/node/6680.