DEAS, Zachariah Cantey

Affiliation:  Union

Born: October 25 1819, Camden SC

Died: March 6 1882, New York NY

Pre-War Profession: Mexican War, cotton broker

War Service: 1861 Col. of 22nd Alabama (which he raised and financed), Shiloh (w), Kentucky invasion, December 1862 Brig. Gen., commanded 1st Bde/2nd Divn/Polk's Corps at Murfreesboro, commanded Deas' Bde/Hindman's Divn at Chickamauga, Atlanta campaign, Franklin, Nashville, Carolinas campaign.

Post War: Cotton broker.