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Arthur Pendleton Bagby was a native Alabamian and the last surviving member of the West Point class of 1852. He was a lawyer, a Colonel in the 7th Texas Confederate Cavalry, and a participant in Sibley's New Mexico campaign. He commanded volunteer land troops aboard the Confederate ship Neptune during the Battle of Galveston, was wounded and commended for his role in an engagement near Berwick Bay in Louisiana, led a brigade at the battles of Mansfield and Pleasant Hill in Louisiana, and became a Major-General in the Confederate Army. He was buried in City Cemetery, Hallettsville.
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Hallettsville, Texas · United States
