Brigadier General Birkett Davenport Fry, CSA - Tallassee, AL
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N 32° 32.198 W 085° 53.572
16S E 603963 N 3600460
Marker describes the life and military service in the Mexican & Civil Wars along with later vocations in industry of General Birkett Davenport Fry
Waymark Code: WMRD9F
Location: Alabama, United States
Date Posted: 06/12/2016
Views: 6
Marker text:
In his lifetime General Birkett D. Fry was a cadet at Virginia Military Institute and West Point; 1st Lt. (U.S. Infantry) in Mexican War; lawyer in California; mercenary-soldier of fortune in Latin America; colonel (adjutant) of the 13th Alabama (CSA) Infantry Regiment in the Civil War when he was wounded in four different battles including Gettysburg, taken prisoner of war, then promoted to Brigadier General (May 1864); engaged in the tobacco business in Cuba; executive in the Taliassee Textile Mills; public school superintendent in Montgomery, AL; and president of the Richmond, VA Cotton Mill until his death. His body was returned to Montgomery where he was buried next to his wife in Oakwood Cemetery.
Fry was born in Kanawha County, WV (24 June 1822) and died in Richmond, VA (21 January 1891). The son of Thornton Fry (1786-1823) and Eliza R. Thompson (1794-1885), he was married to Martha Augusta Micou (1823-1878), the sister of Benjamin Hall Micou (1825-1887) who was president of the Tallassee Manufacturing Company beginning in 1871.
Marker Name: Brigadier General Birkett Davenport Fry, CSA (1822-1891)
Marker Type: Urban
Addtional Information::
Erected by Alabama Historical Association.
Date Dedicated / Placed: 2014
Marker Number: Not Listed
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