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Lawrence O'Bryan Branch, American politician and Confederate general (born 1820)

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Lawrence O'Bryan Branch

American politician

Lawrence O'Bryan Branch was an American politician who served as a representative for North Carolina in the U.S. Congress and a Confederate brigadier general in the American Civil War. He was killed in action at the Battle of Antietam. He owned 40 slaves.
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Confederate States of America

Unrecognized state in North America (1861–1865)

The Confederate States of America (CSA), also known as the Confederate States (C.S.), the Confederacy, or the South, was an unrecognized breakaway republic in the Southern United States from 1861 to 1865. It comprised eleven U.S. states that declared secession: South Carolina,…
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