Background
Dabney, Robert Lewis was born on March 5, 1820 in Louisa County, Virginia, United States. Son of Charles and Elizabeth R. (Price) Dabney.
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Robert Lewis Dabney
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Attended Hampden-Sydney College, 1836-1837, University of Virginia, 1840-1842, Union Theological Seminary, 1844-1846.
Career
Ordained minister Presbyterian Church, 1846. Teacher Union Theological Seminary, Richmond, Virginia, also preacher chapel, occasionally teacher at Hampden-Sydney College, 1853-1883. Became professor Princeton, also minister Fifth Avenue Presbyterian Church, New York City, 1860.
Opposed secession before Civil War, but supported South with religious fervor when war began.
Served as chaplain Confederate Army, 1862, commissioned major Thomas J. (Stonewall) Jackson’s staff Proposed saving “spiritual” South by mass migrations from conquered “geographical” South to Australia or Brazil.
Became professor philosophy University Texas, 1883, a founder Austin School of Theology. Infirm and totally blind, 1890 until death, but continued to lecture until 1897.
Author: Life and Campaigns of Lieutenant-General Thomas J. Jackson, 1866.
A Defense of Virginia and the South, 1867. (theologically Calvinist, politically reactionary) Practical Philosophy, 1897. Also many other philosophical books and essays.
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Married Lavinia Morrison, March 28, 1848.
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American