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 1832 - 1861

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• Birth	11 May 1832	New Orleans, Louisiana   [1]
  Gender	Male
  Died	05 Jul 1861	Virginia
  Person ID	I5106	Stewart
  Last Modified	17 Aug 2011
  Father	Charles Didier Dreux,   b. 22 Dec 1798, New Orleans, Louisiana ,   d. 1867, New Orleans, Louisiana
  Mother	Marie Josephine Nathalie de Livaudais,   b. 12 Feb 1808, New Orleans, Louisiana
  Married	05 Jan 1823	New Orleans, Louisiana
  Family ID	F1618	Group Sheet
  Family	Amanda Hollie Haynes
  Married	17 Oct 1859	New Orleans, Louisiana
  Children	1. Marie Nathalie Dreux,   b. 19 Aug 1860, Smithland, Kentucky ,   d. 1870, Havana, Cuba
  Last Modified	30 Dec 2010
  Family ID	F1644	Group Sheet

• Event Map		Event Birth - 11 May 1832 - New Orleans, Louisiana Married - 17 Oct 1859 - New Orleans, Louisiana Died - 05 Jul 1861 - Virginia  = Link to Google Maps   = Link to Google Earth
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• Notes

  Héros de la Confédération, il est le premier officier confédéré de La Nouvelle-Orléans à être tué durant la Guerre de Sécession. Son corps est ramené à La Nouvelle-Orléans et il lui est donné des funérailles exceptionnelles. Il est enterré au cimetière de Metairie dans la tombe de l'Association of the Army of Tennessee. Lorsque la ville est prise par les forces fédérées, sa veuve s'enfuit pour se réfugier à La Havane. Leur fille y meurt. Heroes of Confederation, he became the first Confederate officer from New Orleans to be killed during the Civil War. His body was brought back to New Orleans and he is given an exceptional funeral. He is buried in Metairie Cemetery in the tomb of the Association of the Army of Tennessee. When the city was taken by the federal forces his widow fled to take refuge in Havana. Their daughter died there. Il fait ses études primaires et secondaires à Paris, ses études supérieures au Amherst College dans le Massachusetts, puis le Western Military Institiute à Blue Lick Springs au Kentucky et enfin le Frankfort Military Institute à Frankfort au Kentucky. Il fait éngalement avec succès ses études de droit. Il exerce le droit et est élu procurer général du district, puis député. Il est également capitain de la milice des Cadets d'Orléans. He completed his primary and secondary schools in Paris, his graduate studies at Amherst College in Massachusetts and the Western Military Institiute at Blue Lick Springs, Kentucky and finally the Military Institute in Frankfort Frankfort, Kentucky. He also successfully studying law. He practiced law and was elected district provide general and deputy. He is also captain of the militia Cadet Orleans. [2]

• Sources

  [S57] Orleans Parish Birth Index (Reliability: 3). vol. 3, page 43 [S127] Cousins des Amériques, Patrick Binet, G La 929.2 Bin 1998., 388.