CS Exe Kean, Robert Garlick Hill - Chief of Bureau of War

Robert Garlick Hill Kean

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Born: October 7, 1828

Birthplace: Mount Airy Plantation, Caroline County, Virginia

Father: John Vaughan Kean 1803 – 1876

Mother: Caroline M. Hill 1802 – 1831
(Buried: Hill Family Cemetery at Mount Airy, Ruther Glen, Virginia)​

1st​ Wife: Jane Nicholas Randolph 1831 – 1868
(Buried: Monticello Graveyard, Albemarle County, Virginia)​

2nd​ Wife: Adelaide Navarro Prescott 1845 – 1922
(Buried: Spring Hill Cemetery, Lynchburg, Virginia)​

Children:
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Lancelot Minor Kean 1856 – 1931​
(Buried: Greenwood Cemetery, New Orleans, Louisiana)​
Pattie Cary Kean Morris 1858 – 1939​
(Buried: Monticello Graveyard, Albemarle County, Virginia)​
Brig. General Jefferson Randolph Kean 1860 – 1950​
(Buried: Monticello Graveyard, Albemarle County, Virginia)​
George Randolph Kean 1866 – 1869​
(Buried: Monticello Graveyard, Albemarle County, Virginia)​
Evelina Moore "Evie" Kean Wells 1875 – 1960​
(Buried: Cedar Grove Cemetery, Norfolk, Virginia)​
Marshall Prescott Kean 1876 – 1959​
(Buried: Evergreen Cemetery, Jacksonville, Florida)​
Captain Otho Vaughan Kean 1881 – 1940​
(Buried: Arlington National Cemetery, Arlington, Virginia)​
Caroline Hill Kean Gallup 1887 – 1962​
(Buried: Sharon Memorial Park, Charlotte, North Carolina)​

Political Party: Democratic Party


Education:

Graduated from University of Virginia​

Occupation before War:

1853 – 1861: Attorney in Lynchburg, Virginia​

Civil War Career:

1861 – 1862: Private in 11th​ Virginia Infantry Regiment​
Served on the Staff of his wife's uncle George W. Randolph​
Served as Confederate Chief of the Bureau of War​
1865: Took Confederate War Department Papers to South Carolina​
1865: Traveled thru the Back country to his home in Lynchburg after Lee's Surrender.​

Occupation after War:

Attorney in Lynchburg, Virginia​
Charter member and Second President of Virginia Bar Association​
Member of the board of visitors for the University of Virginia​
Member of the vestry of Saint Paul's Church​

Died:
June 13, 1898

Place of Death: Lynchburg, Virginia

Age at time of Death: 69 years old

Burial Place: Spring Hill Cemetery, Lynchburg, Virginia
 
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This biography states that George Randolph was his wife's uncle.Another biography states that Randolph was Kean's father-in-law. His first wife was a Randolph and either way Kean served on General Randolph's staff as assistant adjutant general.
 
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This biography states that George Randolph was his wife's uncle.Another biography states that Randolph was Kean's father-in-law. His first wife was a Randolph and either way Kean served on General Randolph's staff as assistant adjutant general.
Further reading on the subject states that Mrs.Kean (Jane)was the daughter of Thomas Jefferson Randolph so George W. Randolph was an uncle.( her father had 11 brothers and sisters).
 
This biography states that George Randolph was his wife's uncle.Another biography states that Randolph was Kean's father-in-law. His first wife was a Randolph and either way Kean served on General Randolph's staff as assistant adjutant general.
Further reading on the subject states that Mrs.Kean (Jane)was the daughter of Thomas Jefferson Randolph. So George Randolph was an uncle (her father had 11 brothers and sisters)
 
Kean kept a diary during his position in the War Bureau. This diary was later published into a book titled "Inside The Confederate Government". This diary was kept except from Feb.through Oct. 1862.
 
Inside the Confederate Government; The diary of Robert Garlick Hill Kean, head of the Bureau of War by Robert Garlick Hill Kean

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When the Civil War began, author Robert Garlick Hill Kean enlisted as a private. In 1862, his wife's uncle, George Wythe Randolph, took Kean on as his aide, and Kean followed him into the War Department at Richmond, where he became the head of the Confederate Bureau of War under John Archibald Campbell, the former U.S. Supreme Court justice.

Kean's wartime diary, first published in 1957 and selected as Book-of-the-Month by the Civil War Book Club in May that same year, gives a vivid portrayal of every significant character, of both the military and civilian sectors, who comprised the highest levels of the Confederate government, and to this day is considered an indispensable resource for those seeking first-hand, in-depth discussion and analysis of the Richmond government.



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USS ALASKA
 
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