PRINCE DE POLIGNAC, Camille

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Confederate

Born: February 16 1832, Millemont, France

Died: November 15 1913, Paris, France

Pre-War Profession: French army, Crimean war, naturalist.

War Service: July 1861 Lt. Col. on staff of Beauregard, Shiloh, Corinth, January 1863 Brig. Gen. on Taylor's staff in Trans Mississippi, command Polignac's Bde/Mouton's Divn in Red River campaign, Mansfield, June 1863 Maj. Gen., traveled to France to seek support for the Confederacy, was there when the war ended.

Post War: Stayed in France, studied mathematics, Franco-Prussian war.