• before becoming a general in the American Civil War, Robert Alexander Cameron worked as a newspaper publisher?

Facts on topics related to Robert Alexander Cameron

American Civil War

• Adam R. Johnson's Newburgh Raid, using two stovepipes, charred wood, a broken wagon, and only 27 men, resulted in the first capture of a northern town in the American Civil War?
• Africans from the last known illegal shipment of slaves to the U.S. formed their own community of Africatown near Mobile, Alabama after the Civil War?
• Alabama land- and slave-owner Benjamin Ogle Tayloe (pictured), reputed to be America's richest man in 1860, lost a half million dollars during the American Civil War?
• American Civil War illustrator Alfred Waud made battlefield sketches that were quickly engraved and published by Harper's Weekly—allowing readers to visualize the war in an age before photographs appeared in press?
• American Civil War leader William Tecumseh Sherman (pictured) said, "No single body of men can claim more honor for the grand result than the officers and men of the Louisville Legion"?
• Captain William Reynolds, a veteran of the American Civil War, formally claimed the Midway Atoll for the United States in 1867 due to its abundance of guano?
• Confederate General John W. Frazer surrendered the Cumberland Gap during the American Civil War without a fight?
• French Champagne merchant Charles Heidsieck was imprisoned for espionage during the American Civil War, sparking an international incident?
• Interstate Commerce Commissioner Walter L. Bragg died after suffering from the effects of Civil War wounds, a quarter century after the war ended?
• Jefferson Davis conceded the American Civil War at the Burt-Stark Mansion?

Colorado

• Colorado state representative Cherylin Peniston won two Fulbright Scholarships while a public school teacher?
• Colorado state representative Joe Rice (pictured) resigned from the Glendale city council in 2003 when called up to serve in the U.S. Army in Iraq, where he advised the Baghdad city council?
• Colorado state representative Spencer Swalm spent time as a Christian missionary in Bolivia?
• Colorado state representative Victor Mitchell secured state funding for Project Lifesaver programs that would provide tracking bracelets for the cognitvely impaired?
• Colorado state senator Chris Romer has proposed using a wiki-like web site to involve citizens in drafting legislation?
• Colorado Rep. Stella Garza-Hicks dropped out of high school in the ninth grade?
• Colorado Sen. Nancy Spence's bill to create a statewide school voucher program was the first to be enacted into law in the U.S. — and then overturned by state courts — after Zelman v. Simmons-Harris?
• Colorado state representative Amy Stephens wrote an abstinence-based sex education curriculum that was translated into over a dozen languages?
• Colorado state senator John Morse worked as an emergency medical technician, accountant, and police chief before entering the legislature?
• state representative Dianne Primavera, a breast and cervical cancer survivor, sponsored legislation for the Colorado Breast and Women's Reproductive Cancers Fund?