Gil R.
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Whit, Battleline already wrote a bio of "Polecat," which I'll paste below. Feel free to make any suggestions on how it might be improved. There are still plenty of generals who haven't had bios done yet, so please let me know if you'd be interested in working on others. Maj. Gen. Camille A.J.M.,P.d. Polignac, CSA (b. 1832, d. 1913) One could write an entire book on the adventures of Camille Armand Jules Marie, Prince de Polignac (of which much would be the full name). Polignac was born in Millemont, Seine-et-Oise, France, Feb. 16, 1832. He was the son of King Charles X’s president of the council of ministers and an English mother. He received education at the College of Stanislaus in Paris and joined the 3rd Regiment of Chasseurs in 1853. In the Crimea, he served with the 4th Hussars as a lieutenant. He later transferred to the 4th Chasseurs before being discharged in 1859. At the start of the Civil War, Polignac was in Central America. He immediately offered his services to the Confederacy and was commissioned as a lieutenant colonel July 16, 1861. In 1862, he was on the staffs of Generals Beauregard and Bragg. Polignac was promoted to brigadier general Jan. 10, 1863, and later to major general April 8, 1864. Much of his service as a general came in Gen. Richard Taylor’s army in Louisiana. He fought with distinction at the battles of Mansfield, Pleasant Hill and in other battles during the Red River Campaign. Near the end of the war, the Confederate government sent Polignac to France to try to seek intervention from Napoleon III’s government. He ran the blockade March 17, 1865, and arrived in Spain shortly before the end of the war. After the war, he studied mathematics and political economy, but came out of military retirement to lead the French 1st Division during the Franco-Prussian War. Awarded the Legion of Honor, Polignac returned to the study of mathematics and developed a reputation in the field prior to his death in Paris Nov. 15, 1913. He was the last Confederate major general to die. He was buried in Frankfort-on-Main, Germany.
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