Moses Ousley Bledsoe

The epitome of an unreconstructed Southerner, Albert Bledsoe was born in Kentucky on 9 November 1809, the eldest son of Moses Ousley Bledsoe and Sophia Childress Taylor, a relation of Zachary Taylor.
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Bledsoe was soon appointed Assistant Secretary of War by Jefferson Davis and so saw little action on the battlefield.
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In 1867, Bledsoe founded the Southern Review, serving as editor and dominant contributor for the next ten years.He thus spent the rest of his life engaged in the publication of articles and reviews in justification of the old, unreconstructed Southern attitudes.He dedicated the journal to "the despised, disenfranchised, and down-trodden people of the South" [1, 365].As he said in an editorial on the question of abandoning the Southern cause, "[w]e would rather die" [1, 365].This he did at Alexandria, Virginia on 8 December 1877.

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