Abel Streight
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Abel Delos Streight was a peacetime lumber merchant and publisher, and was commissioned a United States Army / Union Army colonel in the American Civil War. His command precipitated a notable cavalry
Col. Abel D. Streight, U.S.A. (1828–1892)
Capture site of Col. Abel Streight in Alabama, 1863
Portrait of Lovina McCarthy Streight by Julia Cox (1880)
The western theater of the American Civil War encompassed major military operations in the states of Alabama, Georgia, Florida, Mississippi, North Carolina, Kentucky, South Carolina and Tennessee, as
Abel Streight
…Union commanders. Eventually Streight was restored to active duty being placed in command of the 1st Brigade, 3rd Division, IV Corps. He returned to the Western Theater, participating in the later battles of Franklin and Nashville in Tennessee. Thirteen months after his escape, Streight resigned from the Federal army…
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