History of Chesterfield County South Carolina United States of America

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Robert Lowry, governor of Mississippi, was born in Chesterfield district, S.C., March 10, 1829; son of Robert and Jemima (Rushing) Lowry, and grandson of John and Temperance (Rushing) Lowry. He received a country school education, became a lawyer and practised in Brandon, Rankin county, Miss., where he volunteered in 1861 as a private in Co. B. 6th Mississippi infantry, for service in the Confederate army. When the regiment was organized he was elected major, and the regiment was stationed at Bowling Green, Ky., and formed part of Gen. A. S. Johnston's army of the Mississippi. At the battle of Shiloh (Pittsburg Landing), April 6-7, 1862, the 6th regiment, which was part of Gen. P. R. Cleburne's brigade, Gen. W. J. Hardee's corps, lost more in killed and wounded according to numbers than any other regiment on either side. In the first day's fight Major Lowry was wounded. On the reorganization of the regiment he was elected colonel, and he commanded the regiment at the battle of Corinth, Dec. 3-4, 1862; in the Vicksburg campaign, including Port Gibson, April 30-May 1, 1863; at Jackson, May 14, 1863, and Baker's Creek or Champion Hills, May 16, 1863; throughout the Georgia campaign in Adams's brigade, Loring's division, Johnston's army, being for a time in command of Featherstone's brigade; at Franklin, Tenn., Nov. 30, 1864, where he succeeded to the command of Adams's brigade when that officer was killed, and he soon thereafter was appointed brigadier-general; at Nashville, Dec. 15-16, 1864, where he led the brigade; and in the Carolina campaign, where he surrendered with Johnston's army, April 26, 1865. He then resumed the practice of law at Brandon; served in both branches of the state legislature, and was appointed with Col. Giles M. Hillyer a commissioner to visit President Johnson in 1866 in behalf of Jefferson Davis, and he visited Davis during his confinement in Fort Monroe. He was governor of Mississippi, 1882-90, and president of the boards of trustees of the University of Mississippi, the Agricultural and Mechanical college at Starkville, and the Industrial Institute and College for the Education of White Girls, Columbus.

From: Twentieth Century Biographical Dictionary of Notable Americans, Johnson, Rossiter, editor

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