States Rights Gist
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States Rights Gist was a lawyer and militia general in South Carolina, and later a Confederate Army brigadier general during the American Civil War. He gained prominence during the war but was killed
Photo taken between 1862 and 1864
Mordecai Gist
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Mordecai Gist was a member of a prominent Maryland family who became a brigadier general in command of the Maryland Line in the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War.
States Rights Gist
…Christopher Gist (1706–1759), uncle of William Gist, Colonial explorer Nathaniel Gist (1733–1812), son of Christopher Gist, Continental Army soldier Mordecai Gist (1743–1792), nephew of Christopher Gist, served as a general in the Continental Army George Gist or Sequoyah (1740–1833), grandson of Christopher Gist…
Portrait by Charles Willson Peale, c. 1774