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Joseph Finnegan (November 17, 1814 – October 29, 1885) was an attorney, politician, lumber mill operator, slave owner and railroad builder in Florida, but is primarily known as the general who commanded the Confederate States Army in its victory at the Battle of Olustee. ==Early life and career== Finnegan was born November 17, 1814 at Clones in County Monaghan, Ireland.〔(International Genealogical Index at )〕 He came to Florida in the 1830s, first establishing a sawmill at Jacksonville and later a law practice at Fernandina. At the latter place, he became the business partner of David Levy Yulee and began construction of the Florida Railroad to speed transportation of goods and people from the new state's east coast to the Gulf of Mexico.〔''Rose Cottage Chronicles: Civil War Letters of the Bryant-Stephens Families of North Florida,'' edited by Arch Fredric Blakey, Ann Smith Lainhart, and Winston Bryant Stephens, Jr., University Press of Florida, Gainesville, 1998. Page 129.〕 Finnegan's successes are perhaps attributable to his first marriage on July 28, 1842, to the widow Rebecca Smith Travers.〔 Her sister Mary Martha Smith was the wife of Florida's territorial governor Robert Raymond Reid, an appointee of President Martin Van Buren.〔"Guide to the Mary Martha Reid Papers (1821-1890)," by Mimi Klug, Florida Historical Society Library, Cocoa, 2004.〕 At a courthouse auction in 1849, Finnegan paid just forty dollars ($40) for five miles of shoreline along Lake Monroe.〔''Flashbacks: The Story of Central Florida's Past'' by Jim Robison and Mark Andrews, Orange County Historical Society, Orlando, Florida, 1995. Page 34.〕 In 1852, he was a member of the Committee of Vigilance and Safety of Jacksonille, Florida.〔"Public Meetings," Jacksonville News, June 5, 1852, 1.〕 By the outbreak of the American Civil War, Finnegan had built his family a forty-room mansion in Fernandina, bounded by 11th and 12th Streets and Broome and Calhoun Avenues, the site of the modern Atlantic Elementary School. His family included his three stepdaughters Maria, Margaret, and Martha Travers;〔"Joseph Finnegan: Fernandina's Confederate General," by Charles Litrico, ().〕 and children Rutledge, Agnes, Josephine, and Yulee Finnegan.〔1860 Census, Fernandina, Nassau County, Florida, page 403.〕 At Florida's secession convention, Finnegan represented Nassau County alongside James G. Cooper.〔Blakey et al., page 128.〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Joseph Finnegan (Brigadier general)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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