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HOUSE OF GORDON.
John George Gordon,
Scot, emigrated 1724 ;
in Spottsylvania, Virginia
George,
North Carolina,
I
Nathaniel,
M.P. (N.C.) 1819-28
James Byron,
Brig. Gen. 1941
Charles,
North Carolina
Chapman,
1873
Zachariah,
Georgia
John Brown,
Gen. 1962
Augustus Manly, Eugene Cornelius, Walter Scott, Zachariah Chapman,
1866 1890 2021 2051
Hugh Haralson,
1920
Hugh Haralson,
1921
The soldier kinsmen of General John Brown Gordon.
These genealogies are due to the untiring energy of Mr. Armistead
Gordon, but it is not merely owing to the accident of his enthusiasm
that they can be constructed. Virginia, with its inilux of old families,
was peculiarly suited to breed an aristocratic soldier caste, whereas the
north, with a far more migratory and mixed population, naturally de-
feats the process and defies the genealogist.
It will be noted that in this American list all ranks have been in-
cluded, for the private soldier of the Confederacy was as often as not of
birth as gentle as his officer. " I know an instance," writes Mr. Armi-
stead Gordon, " where of a mess of five privates and non-commissioned
officers in winter quarters in 1862-3, three were engaged by way of recrea-
tion in reading in the original Greek the plays of Euripides and Sopho-
cles, and the other two in studying the differential calculus."
Jacobites in 1715 and 1745.
The list of Jacobites shows that 103 Gordons entered the field
for the old Chevalier in 1715 and for Prince Charlie in 1745, only two
men — one of them being the redoubtable John Gordon of Glenbucket —
taking part in the two risings. The list, which has been compiled