Global InformationWilmot Gibbes de Saussure information
Wilmot Gibbes de Saussure | |
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| Born | July 23, 1822 Charleston, South Carolina |
| Died | February 1, 1886 (aged 63) Ocala, Florida |
| Buried | Charleston, South Carolina |
| Allegiance |  Confederate States of America |
| Service/ |  South Carolina militia |
| Years of service | 1861–1865 |
| Rank |  Brigadier General |
| Battles/wars | American Civil War |
| Other work | Lawyer, historian |
Wilmot Gibbes[1] de Saussure (July 23, 1822 – February 1, 1886) was a brigadier general in the South Carolina militia, who served along with the Confederate States Army in South Carolina at various times during the American Civil War.[2] As a colonel, he led his regiment in the occupation of Fort Moultrie and the bombardment of Fort Sumter at the beginning of the war. He was appointed brigadier general as well as adjutant general and inspector general of South Carolina militia in 1862. He commanded part of the Charleston defenses during the Union siege of the city in 1863. He also led his men in opposition to Major General William T. Sherman's march through the Carolinas.
De Saussure served five two-year terms in the South Carolina General Assembly in 1848–1849, 1854–1857 and 1860–1863. He also served as South Carolina Secretary of the Treasury from the summer of 1861 to April 11, 1862. After the war, de Saussure was a prominent lawyer and was active in civic affairs. He wrote several works of South Carolina history[3] and was a grand master of Freemasons and president of the Huguenot Society, the Cincinnati Society and other civic organizations.
- ^ Although Allardice and Eicher spell de Saussure's middle name as "Gibbs," most contemporary and current sources spell it as "Gibbes," the same spelling as the maiden name of one of his grandmothers: Alderman, Edwin Anderson, Joel Chandler Harris and Charles William Kent. 'Library of Southern Literature: Biographical dictionary of authors', Volume 15. Atlanta: The Martin & Hoyt Company, 1907. OCLC 61939154. Retrieved January 30, 2013. p. 117; Butler, Nicholas Michael. 'Votaries of Apollo: The St. Cecilia Society and the Patronage of Concert Music in Charleston, South Carolina, 1766 - 1820'. Columbia, SC: University of South Carolina Press, 2007. ISBN 978-1-57003-705-4. Retrieved January 30, 2013. pp. 43, 44, 69, 156, 274, 286, 345; Chesnut, Mary Boykin Miller and Comer Vann Woodward. 'Mary Chesnut's Civil War'. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1981. ISBN 978-0-300-02459-3. Retrieved January 30, 2013. pp. 108, 200, 852; Cowles, John H. 'Supreme Council 33rd Degree Part 1 Or Mother Council of the World of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry, Southern Jurisdiction, United States of America' Washington, D.C.: Scottish rite Supreme Council for the Southern jurisdiction, 1931. Reprint: Whitefish, Mont.: Kessinger Publishing, LLC, 2003. ISBN 978-0-7661-6551-9. Retrieved September 11, 2012. pp. 395-397; Herringshaw, Thomas William. 'Herringshaw's national library of American biography: contains thirty-five thousand biographies of the acknowledged leaders of life and thought of the United States', Volume 2. Chicago: American Publishers, 1909. OCLC 3152314. Retrieved January 30, 2013. p. 257; Huguenot Society of London. 'Proceedings of the Huguenot Society of London', Volume 4, 1891–1893. London: Chas. T. King, 1894. OCLC 265471375. Retrieved January 30, 2013. p. 9. ["Huguenot Society of South Carolina....– In Memoriam William Gibbes De Saussure.[Charleston, 1886] 8vo."]; Johnson, Michael P. and James L. Roark. 'No Chariot Let Down: Charleston's Free People of Color on the Eve of the Civil War'. Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 1984. ISBN 978-0-8078-1596-0. Retrieved January 30, 2013. p. 139; Johnson, Rossiter and John Howard Brown, eds. 'The Twentieth Century Biographical Dictionary of Notable Americans', Volume 3. Boston: The Biographical Society, 1904. OCLC 633963322. Retrieved January 30, 2013. p. 1898; La Borde, Maximilian. 'History of the South Carolina College, From Its Incorporation, Dec. 19, 1801, to Nov. 25, 1857'. Columbia, SC: Peter B. Glass, 1859, OCLC 19997760. reprint Carlisle, MA: Applewood Books. ISBN 978-1-4290-4328-1. Retrieved January 30, 2013. p. 444. ["Class of 1840."]; Pettigrew, James Johnston and Dan Bauer. 'The long lost journal of Confederate General James Johnston Pettigrew'. San Jose: Writers Club Press, 2001. ISBN 978-0-595-12416-9. Retrieved January 30, 2013. p. 46. 'Find a Grave; Wilmot Gibbes de Saussure'. Retrieved January 31, 2013; 'Wilmot G. DeSaussure Order-Book, 1860-1861'. The Southern Historical Collection of archival material held in the Wilson Library at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Retrieved January 31, 2013.
- ^ Some sources capitalize the "d" in his last name.
- ^ DeSaussure, Wilmot G. (1886). The names, as far as can be ascertained, of the officers : who served in the South Carolina regiments. Columbia, S.C.: The State Society of the Cincinnati of South Carolina. Retrieved 22 September 2014.