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Preston Pond, Jr. (September 9, 1823 – June 15, 1864) was a lawyer and politician from Louisiana, who served as a Colonel in the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War. ==Early Life and Family== Preston Pond was born in Hinsdale, New Hampshire on September 9, 1823.〔 His parents were Doctor (med.) Preston Pond, Sr. and Adeline Stebbins Pond (née Wright). When he was a child his family moved to Jackson, Louisiana; where his father continued his medical profession. He grew up in a household with his parents, his four siblings and one slave. His three brothers ultimately all served in the Confederate States Army; Henry L. as 1st Lieutenant in the 16th Louisiana Infantry and Charles L. as Corporal in the 1st Louisiana Cavalry (later joined the 16th Louisiana Infantry and 10th Arkansas Infantry). The youngest, Dana B. Pond, served as Private in the 27th Louisiana Infantry till he was captured and paroled at Vicksburg and joined the Ogden Cavalry Battalion. Pond married Emelie Cooper (b. 1829) in 1846. In 1852 he married again, this time Adelaide Alice Woodward (1835 – December 12, 1878). With Adelaide he had a single child, daughter Adelaide Jane Pond, born on October 22, 1856.〔 Their household was completed by a young Irish immigrant girl, C. O'Shaughnessy.〔 Leaning to a legal profession by 1850 Pond was admitted to the East Feliciana bar and practiced law in Jackson. By 1860 he had moved to Clinton, Louisiana and in addition to his practice he took up farming.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://johnlisle.us/genealogy/getperson.php?personID=I21848&tree=stedman_main )〕 Entering politics as a Know Nothing he was elected to the Louisiana House of Representatives for East Feliciana in 1851. In 1855 he ran for the U.S. Congress as candidate for Louisiana's 3rd congressional district, but he was defeated by Thomas G. Davidson. Pond also served in the Louisiana Militia as an officer in the 21st or "Parish East Feliciana" Regiment. By 1849 he attained the rank of Major, by 1860 he was the regiment's Colonel. 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「Preston Pond, Jr.」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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