Trivia #11 Friday Bonus (7/11/2014)

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True or false: Moxley Sorrel was a bank teller before the Civil War.
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False. He worked as a clerk in a banking department of a railroad

Edit - Incorrect.

Others have posted links to sources indicating that he did, indeed, work in the banking department of a railroad. I don't know exactly how the railroad's organizational structure was set up, but if he worked as a clerk in a banking department of any organization, I would consider him to be performing the duties of a bank clerk.

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True. He was a clerk/teller for the Central R.R. and Banking Co. of Savannah.
From his autobiography entitled At the Right Hand of Longstreet: Recollections of a Confederate Staff Officer:
"At the culmination of the political troubles in 1861 I was a young chap just twenty-two, at home in my native city, Savannah, peacefully employed with the juniors of the banking force of the Central Railroad."
 
Wikipedia says true
“In 1861, Moxley left his job as a Savannah bank clerk, taking part in the Confederate capture of Fort Pulaski as a private in the Georgia Hussars.“
http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moxley_Sorrel

But Find a Grave says something else:
“Civil War Confederate Brigadier General. Born in Savannah, Georgia, he was a clerk for a railroad at the outbreak of the Civil War. “
http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=11079

As Moxley himself in his book “Recollections of a Confederate Staff Officer“ relates that he was “peacefully employed with the juniors of the banking force of the Central Railroad“
( http://books.google.de/books?id=DTY...de&source=gbs_toc_r&cad=3#v=onepage&q&f=false )

both sources are right and with respect to the question that was asked here, my answer is: True
 
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