James Chesnut Jr., Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

James Chesnut Jr.

American politician

Date of Birth: 18-Jan-1815

Place of Birth: Camden, South Carolina, United States

Date of Death: 01-Feb-1885

Profession: politician

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Capricorn

James Chesnut Jr.
(January 18, 1815 – February 1, 1885) was an American politician who served as a Deputy from South Carolina to the Provisional Congress of the Confederate States from 1861 to 1862.
He also served as a senior officer of the Confederate States Army in the Eastern Theater of the American Civil War. Chesnut, a lawyer prominent in South Carolina state politics, served as a Democratic senator in 1858-60, where he proved moderate on the slavery question.
But on Lincoln's election in 1860, Chesnut resigned from the U.S.
Senate and took part in the South Carolina secession convention, later helping to draft the Confederate States Constitution. As aide to General P.G.T.
Beauregard, he ordered the firing on Fort Sumter and served at First Manassas.
Later he was aide to Jefferson Davis and promoted to Brigadier-General.
Chesnut returned to law practice after the war. His wife was Mary Boykin Chesnut, whose published diaries reflect the Chesnuts' busy social life and prominent friends such as John Bell Hood, Louis T.
Wigfall, Wade Hampton III, and Jefferson Davis.



Description	American photographer, war photographer, photojournalist and journalist
Date of birth/death	18 May 1822	15 January 1896
Location of birth/death	Warren County	Manhattan
Work period	from 1844 until circa 1887 date QS:P,+1887-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1480,Q5727902
Work location	New York City, Washington, D.C.
Authority control	: Q187850 VIAF: 22965552 ISNI: 0000 0001 2209 4376 ULAN: 500126201 LCCN: n81140569 NAID: 10570155 WorldCat