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Albert Bledsoe Albert Bledsoe (1809-1877) was a man of tremendous capability who had a remarkably rich career. After being by turns professor of mathematics, lawyer, and church minister, the Civil War forced Bledsoe to re-enter military service as a colonel in the Confederate Army, but then he was promoted to chief of the War Bureau and assistant Secretary of War. Jefferson Davis sent him to London to sway English public opinion in favor of the Confederacy, and to collect historical data that could be used to defend and justify the newly formed Confederate nation. Bledsoe's peregrinations brought him into contact with many persons who were to become important figures in American history. For example, when he practised law in Springfield, he was in the same courts as Lincoln and Douglas. He must have obtained certain "inside knowledge" of the thinking of these men, which gave direction to and validation of his own research. His written works had a major impact on thinking in the post-Civil War period. Is Secession Treason? More information on Is Secession Treason? |
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