UncleBourbon
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I'm unsure if this belongs in the ReconstructionTalk forum, given all I know of Manlove entails his post-war activities, however I'd also like to see if anybody can uncover documents of his service in the Confederacy.
In "The History of Paraguay" by Charles Ames Washburn, the United States minister to Paraguay at the time of the War of the Triple Alliance, he mentions in detail the antics of a Confederate veteran named James Manlove.
Manlove was from Maryland and went South to serve the Confederacy during the Civil War. He served under Nathan Bedford Forrest, participated in the Fort Pillow massacre (Washburn states Manlove denied their being a massacre at all) and was a Major by the end of the war.
That's all that's said his Civil War service, and if anybody can use these details to accrue more information on him it would be greatly appreciate.
The interesting bits about his life come after his Civil War service, where he attempted to travel to Paraguay during the War of the Triple Alliance to convince Paraguayan Dictator Francisco Lopez to allow him and other Confederate veterans to use ex-Confederate blockade-runners to prey on Brazilian transports and merchant vessels, claiming, "as none of the nations of the world had treated the Alabama, Florida, and Shenandoah as pirates, they could not treat their vessels as such, if they only had regular commissions from the government of Paraguay."
Given the allied blockade of Paraguay, he attempted to acquire Washburn's aid in this plot, which Washburn adamantly refused, so he ended up intermingling with Argentinian forces until he saw a gap to escape to Paraguayan lines and allow himself to be captured.
After interrogation and near execution, Manlove was released by the Paraguayan government and Washburn, in spite of being a Lincoln cabinet Republican, helped sustain Manlove given he had no income or way out of the country.
Manlove got into trouble with the Paraguayan police on one occasion, which Washburn bailed him out of, before being arrested and either executed or dying of disease in prison in 1868 during Lopez' general purge of suspected traitors, including his own brother.
In "The History of Paraguay" by Charles Ames Washburn, the United States minister to Paraguay at the time of the War of the Triple Alliance, he mentions in detail the antics of a Confederate veteran named James Manlove.
Manlove was from Maryland and went South to serve the Confederacy during the Civil War. He served under Nathan Bedford Forrest, participated in the Fort Pillow massacre (Washburn states Manlove denied their being a massacre at all) and was a Major by the end of the war.
That's all that's said his Civil War service, and if anybody can use these details to accrue more information on him it would be greatly appreciate.
The interesting bits about his life come after his Civil War service, where he attempted to travel to Paraguay during the War of the Triple Alliance to convince Paraguayan Dictator Francisco Lopez to allow him and other Confederate veterans to use ex-Confederate blockade-runners to prey on Brazilian transports and merchant vessels, claiming, "as none of the nations of the world had treated the Alabama, Florida, and Shenandoah as pirates, they could not treat their vessels as such, if they only had regular commissions from the government of Paraguay."
Given the allied blockade of Paraguay, he attempted to acquire Washburn's aid in this plot, which Washburn adamantly refused, so he ended up intermingling with Argentinian forces until he saw a gap to escape to Paraguayan lines and allow himself to be captured.
After interrogation and near execution, Manlove was released by the Paraguayan government and Washburn, in spite of being a Lincoln cabinet Republican, helped sustain Manlove given he had no income or way out of the country.
Manlove got into trouble with the Paraguayan police on one occasion, which Washburn bailed him out of, before being arrested and either executed or dying of disease in prison in 1868 during Lopez' general purge of suspected traitors, including his own brother.
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