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HAWES, James Morrison Son of Richard Hawes, later Confederate provisional governor of Kentucky.
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James Morrison HAWES
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Private school, United States Military Academy.
Career
His wife Hattie Morrison (Nicholas) on January 7, 1824, in Lexington, Kentucky. He graduated twenty- ninth in a class of forty-one from the U.S. Military Academy in 1845. He was an Episcopalian.
He married Maria J. Southgate on February 3, 1857. His first military duty was in the Indian Territory. Hawes served in the military occupation of Texas in 1845-1846 and was breveted first lieutenant for his action at Vera Cruz during the Mexican War.
From 1848 to 1850, he was an assistant instructor of infantry and cavalry tactics and mathematics at West Point, and from 1850 to 1852, he attended the cavalry school at Saumur, France. He served on the Texas frontier and during the Utah expedition of 1858 as a captain in the 2nd Dragoons. When the war began, he resigned his commission in the U.S. Army and volunteered for service in the Confederate Army.
Hawes entered the Confederate Army as a captain and was later named colonel of the 2nd Kentucky Cavalry. He commanded all cavalry under General Albert S. Johnston until after the battle of Shiloh, when he asked to be relieved. Appointed brigadier general on March 14, 1862, Hawes then served as a brigade commander under General John C. Breckinridge.
In October 1862, he was sent to Little Rock, and he fought in the battle of Milliken's Bend, Louisiana, on June 7, 1863. In 1864, he fortified Galveston island. There is no record of his surrender.
After the war, Hawes was a hardware merchant in Covington, Kentucky.
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.
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Spouse Maria J.
