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Emily Chase Warren
4 Feb 2010 at 3:34pm
Wife of Union General Gouverneur Kemble Warren
Emily Forbes Chase was born on September 16, 1840. On Valentine's Day 1862, Emily met Gouverneur Warren at a party in Baltimore, and fell in love. She was twenty at the time, the oldest of four children of a prosperous dry-goods merchant, Algernon Syd...
Mary Elizabeth Cummins Robertson
27 Jan 2010 at 8:03pm
Wife of Confederate General Jerome Bonaparte Robertson
Jerome Bonaparte Robertson was born on March 14, 1815, in Woodford County, Kentucky, the son of Cornelius and Clarissa Hill (Keech) Robertson. His father, a Scottish immigrant, died in 1819, leaving his mother almost penniless. Unable to prope...
Otelia Butler Mahone
19 Jan 2010 at 3:47pm
Wife of Confederate General William Mahone
Otelia Butler was born on August 1, 1835, Otelia Butler was the daughter of Dr. Robert Butler of the town of Smithfield in Isle of Wight County, Virginia, and his second wife, Otelia Voinard, from Petersburg, Virginia. The Butler family was prominent, and...