Background
GRACIE, Archibald, Jr. Son of the wealthy merchant, Archibald Grade.
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Archibald Jr. GRACIE
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Private school, United States Military Academy.
Career
His wife Elizabeth Davidson (Bethune) on December 1, 1832, in New York City. The younger Grade spent five years at Heidelburg, Germany, in private schools and graduated fourteenth in a class of forty-six from the U.S. Military Academy in 1854. He was an Episcopalian.
He had one son by his marriage to Josephine Mayo on November 19,1856. Gracie served on a Pacific Coast expedition against the Snake Indians before resigning his military commission in 1856 to become a merchant in Mobile, where he was also agent for Baring Brothers of London in 1857. In 1860, he was a captain of the Washington Light Infantry in Mobile.
When the war began, he joined the 3rd Alabama Infantry and participated in the battles of Yorktown and Williamsburg in April and May 1862. After his promotion to colonel, Gracie served in Chattanooga and captured Fort Cliff in Huntsville, Tennessee. He attained the rank of brigadier general on November 4.
1862. Gracie served as military governor of Lexington and was part of the rear guard of Bragg’s army at Harrodsburg during the Kentucky campaign. In 1863, he was sent to serve under General James Longstreet at Chickamauga. He won a commendation for bravery at Drewry’s Bluff in May 1864 and was recommended for promotion to major general.
But before his promotion could be approved, Gracie was killed in the trenches below Petersburg on December 2, 1864.
Religion
"Peculiar institution" of slavery was not only expedient but also ordained by God and upheld in Holy Scripture.
Politics
Stands for preserving slavery, states' rights, and political liberty for whites. Every individual state is sovereign, even to the point of secession.
