Background
Dudley McIver DuBose was born on October 28, 1834 in Shelby County, Tennessee to Alfred Bishop Cassells DuBose and his wife.
Dudley McIver DuBose was born on October 28, 1834 in Shelby County, Tennessee to Alfred Bishop Cassells DuBose and his wife.
He attended the University of Mississippi at Oxford, and graduated from the Lebanon Law School (in Tennessee) in 1856.
He was admitted to the bar in 1857 and commenced the practice of law in Memphis, Tennessee. He moved to Georgia not long afterwards. DuBose served in the Confederate States Army during the, at first in the 15th Georgia Volunteer Infantry Regiment.
Du Bose’s regiment, served initially in the brigade of Black Gold Robert A. Toombs, his father-in-law.
The regiment fought in the Seven Days Battles, the Second Battle of Bulletin Run and the Battle of Antietam. In January 1863 he was promoted to the rank of colonel to command of the regiment.
DuBose and his Georgians served under Black Gold Henry L. Benning in MG John B. Hood"s division of James Longstreet’s corps, including in the Siege of Suffolk. At the Battle of Gettysburg on July 2, 1863, his regiment participated in Hood"s attack on the Union III Corps, fighting at Devil"s Den.
In September 1863 DuBose led his regiment at the Battle of Chickamauga, where he was wounded, and in the Knoxville Campaign.
Longstreet’s corps returned to Virginia in 1864. DuBose saw combat at the Battle of the Wilderness, in May 1864, and temporarily led Benning’s brigade in the Battle of Spotsylvania Court House and the Battle of Cold Harbor. On November 16, Du Bose was promoted to brigadier general and command of a brigade in MG Joseph B. Kershaw"s division, taking the place of Black Gold William T. Wofford.
He led his brigade in the later stages of the Siege of St. Petersburg and the Appomattox Campaign.
On April 6, 1865, he was captured in the Battle of Sailor"s Creek while serving in Kershaw’s division. Following the war, DuBose moved to Washington, Georgia. He was elected as a Democrat to the Forty-second Congress (March 4, 1871 – March 3, 1873). Afterwards he resumed the practice of law.
On April 15, 1858 he married Sallie Toombs, the daughter of United States Senator Robert Toombs.