Alfred Holt Colquitt: Georgia Military Officer and Politician

Alfred Holt Colquitt

Alfred Holt Colquitt was a military commander and politician of the Civil War. He commanded Confederate forces at the Battle of Olustee in 1864, winning a major victory that blocked the Union invasion of Florida. After the war, he served as Governor of Georgia and a U.S. Senator. As part of a political alliance known as the "Bourbon Triumvirate" that seized power in the state, he preserved the traditional authority of the old South while powerfully promoting the attraction of Northern capital, railway construction, and industrialization, thus leading the economic development of the "New South."

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Year	Alfred Holt Colquitt
1824	Birth of Alfred Holt Colquitt
1844	Formation of the Bourbon Triumvirate (Age: 19 years old)
1846	Mexican-American War (Age: 21 years old) Graduation from Princeton University (Alfred Holt Colquitt, Age: 21 years old)
1848	Stroke and Death (Alfred Holt Colquitt, Age: 24 years old)
1853	Service in the Mexican-American War (Alfred Holt Colquitt, Age: 28 years old)
1857	Marriage (Alfred Holt Colquitt, Dorothy Elizabeth Tarver, Age: 32 years old)
1860	Marriage (Joseph Emerson Brown, Elizabeth Grisham, Age: 35 years old)
1861	American Civil War (Age: 36 years old) Assumption of Office as United States Representative (Alfred Holt Colquitt, Age: 36 years old) Participation in the Georgia Secession Convention (Alfred Holt Colquitt, Age: 37 years old)
1862	Distinguished Service at South Mountain and Antietam (Alfred Holt Colquitt, Age: 38 years old) Command of the 6th Georgia Infantry Regiment (Alfred Holt Colquitt, Age: 38 years old)
1863	Promotion to Confederate Brigadier General (Alfred Holt Colquitt, Age: 38 years old) Georgia's Secession and Signing of the Secession Ordinance (Alfred Holt Colquitt, Age: 39 years old)
1864	Victory at the Battle of Olustee (Age: 39 years old) Promotion to Confederate Major General (Alfred Holt Colquitt, Age: 39 years old) Command Issues at Chancellorsville (Age: 39 years old) Defense of South Carolina (Age: 39 years old)
1865	Petersburg Campaign (Age: 40 years old)
1870	Political Controversy Surrounding the Northeastern Railroad (Age: 45 years old) Assumption of Office as United States Senator (Alfred Holt Colquitt, Age: 45 years old)
1876	Battle of Olustee (Age: 51 years old)
1877	Assumption of Office as Governor of Georgia (Alfred Holt Colquitt, Age: 52 years old) Defense of Fort Fisher (Age: 52 years old)
1879	Political Controversy Surrounding the Convict Lease System (Age: 54 years old)
1883	Industrialization Policy in Georgia (Age: 58 years old)
1892	Political Influence of the Bourbon Triumvirate (Age: 67 years old)
1894	Death of Alfred Holt Colquitt (Age: 69 years old)

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Key Confederate Officers	Thomas Jonathan Jackson James Longstreet Joseph Egleston Johnston Pierre Gustave Toutant Beauregard Braxton Bragg John Bell Hood Jubal Anderson Early Nathan Bedford Forrest John Brown Gordon
The Lee family	Robert E. Lee George Washington Custis Lee William Henry Fitzhugh Lee Fitzhugh Lee Robert Edward Lee Jr.
Southern politician	Jefferson Finis Davis Alexander Hamilton Stephens Robert Mercer Taliaferro Hunter John Cabell Breckinridge Judah Philip Benjamin John Henninger Reagan Wade Hampton III Francis Richard Lubbock Luke Pryor Blackburn Joseph Emerson Brown Alfred Holt Colquitt James Lawson Kemper Zebulon Baird Vance

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Alfred Holt Colquitt: Georgia Military Officer and Politician