Lewis Baldwin Parsons
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N 38° 40.717 W 088° 28.237
16S E 372079 N 4282139
President of a railroad, Civil War General, and Harvard Law Graduate.
Waymark Code: WM3FDP
Location: Illinois, United States
Date Posted: 03/29/2008
Views: 6
Marker Erected by: Clay County Civil War Round Table and The Illinois State Historical Society.
Marker Text:
Near this site was the home of Brevet Major General Lewis B. Parsons, who lived in Flora from 1875 until his death in 1907. Born in New York in 1818, Parsons graduated from Harvard Law School and began practice in Alton, Illinois. In 1854 he moved to St. Louis, where he became president of the Ohio & Mississippi Railroad. During the first year of the Civil War, Parsons was commissioned Captain of the volunteers in the Union Army. In 1861 he was given charge of river and rail transportation in the Department of the Mississippi and in 1864 was placed in charge of river and rail transportation for the entire Army.
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