Background
Camille Armand Jules Marie de Polignac was born on February 16, 1832, in Millemont, France. He was the son of Jules Auguste Armand Marie de Polignac, president of the Council of Ministers to Charles X of France.
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Camille Armand Jules Marie was educated at the College Stanislas de Paris during the early 1850s.
Camille Armand Jules Marie de Polignac was born on February 16, 1832, in Millemont, France. He was the son of Jules Auguste Armand Marie de Polignac, president of the Council of Ministers to Charles X of France.
Camille Armand Jules Marie was educated at the College Stanislas de Paris during the early 1850s.
Camille Armand Jules Marie, Prince de Polignac served in the French Army during the Crimean War. He resigned his commission in 1859 to study plant life in Central America and was living there at the outbreak of the Civil War.
After offering his services to the Confederate Army when the Civil War began, he was made lieutenant colonel and chief of staff to General P.G.T. Beauregard. He was promoted to brigadier general on January 10, 1863, and to major general on June 13, 1864.
During the second half of the war, he served in the Army of Tennessee. In the Red River campaign in Louisiana in the spring of 1864, he distinguished himself while commanding his own and Mouton's Brigade in the battles of Mansfield and Pleasant Hill. In March 1865, the Confederate government sent him to France to seek the aid and intervention of Napoleon III. After the war. he remained in France and retired to his estate, where he wrote articles on the Civil War.
In the Franco-Prussian War of 1870-1871, Camille led the 1st Division and was awarded the French Legion of Honor. He later gained a reputation as a mathematician and civil engineer. He conducted surveying expeditions in Algeria.
Camille was first married to Marie Adolphine Langenberger. The couple had one daughter, Marie Armande Mathilde. He had a son, Victor Mansfield Alfred and two daughters, Mabel Constance and Helene Agnès Anne, by his second marriage to Elizabeth Marguerite Knight on 3 May 1883.