William Washington Gordon II

General William Washington Gordon II (1834–1912) was a Confederate Captain in the American Civil War, later serving as a Brigadier General in the United States Army during the Spanish–American War.

Life

The eldest son of Senator William Washington Gordon, of Georgia, he graduated B.A. from Yale University in 1854, before returning to Savannah to become a cotton and rice broker, forming the firm of Tison & Gordon in 1856.[1]

Commissioned into the Georgia Hussars as a Lieutenant at the outset of the American Civil War in 1861, Gordon fought with distinction being promoted Captain and then Adjutant, receiving his only wound at Lovejoy's Station after the Battle of Jonesboro (1864).

Gordon then returned to his family's cotton plantation, becoming chairman of the Savannah Cotton Exchange and vice-president of the Merchants' National Bank, as well as a founding director of the Georgia Railroad and Banking Company. He was elected to the Georgia Assembly 1884–89 and served as commanding officer of the State Militia, being appointed in 1891 a Brigadier General of the US Army.[2]

Family

Gordon married Eleanor Lytle Kinzie in 1857, younger daughter of Colonel John Harris Kinzie. They had six children:

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References
  1. King Cotton and his Retainers (1800-1925)
  2. Gordon Family Papers, Georgia Historical Society
  3. Mosley, Charles (ed.) (2003). Burke's Peerage & Baronetage, 107th edn. London: Burke's Peerage & Gentry Ltd. p. 2293 (LEIGH, B). ISBN 0-9711966-2-1.
  4. Rowley Leigh bio


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