Georgia   Biographies  Bartow, Francis S.

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FRANCIS S. BARTOW

Francis Stebbins Bartow, the son of Dr. Theorosius Bartow
and his wife, Frances Lloyd Stebbins, was born in
Savannah, Georgia, September 06, 1816.  He became an
attorney in Savannah after graduating from Franklin
College, now the Univeristy of Georgia, and studying law
with John McPherson Berrien.  He married Louisa Greene
Berrien the daughter of his tutor in 1844.

When the war clouds of 1861 began to roll, Francis was a
member of the State Secession Convention at
Milledgeville.  He then became a member of the
Provisional Confederate Congress.  He is credited with
deciding gray should be the color of the Confederate
uniforms.

Francis Bartow left the Congress to lead the Eight
Georgia Regiment as Colonel.  Then on July 21, 1861, he
led a brigade on a charge up a hill known as "Henry House
Plateau," during the First Manassas.  He received a fatal
shot.  Mrs. Jefferson Davis sent word to Mrs. Bartow of
her husband's death.  His body was returned to Savannah
where it was buried with military honors in Laurel Grove
Cemetery. He received the rank of Brigadier General
posthumously.

Cass County Georgia, was renamed Bartow in December of
1861 to honor General Francis S. Bartow.

CARTERSVILLE is the county seat.



Note: Adiel Sherwood, A GAZETTEER OF THE STATE OF
GEORGIA, Washington City, Printed by P. Force, 1837,  pp.
255-256. APPENDIX:  BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES "The author
conceived that a short biographical sketch of the
individuals after whom the several counties were named,
would furnish an instructive and pleasing appendage to
his topographical work... Acquainted with the intimate
friends of some of the 'venerable dead,' he has been
furnished with sufficient materials to enlarge on their
character... There are in the State ninety counties (book
printed in 1837, presently in 2001, there are 159
counties)..."


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