Seddon attended the peace convention held in Washington in 1861, which attempted to devise a means of preventing the American Civil War, and in the same year, he attended the Provisional Confederate Congress.
Along with other famous Confederates such as Robert E. Lee, Seddon was charged with "conspiring to injure the health and destroy the lives of United States soldiers held as prisoners by the Confederate States."
JamesAlexanderSeddon (13 July 1815 – 19 August1880), born in Falmouth, Stafford County, Virginia, was an American lawyer and politician who was appointed as Secretary of War for the Confederate States of America by Jefferson Davis in the American Civil War.
{Descendened from the William Alexander "Earl of Stirling"}.
Seddon attended the peace convention held in Washington in 1861, which attempted to devise a means of preventing the American Civil War, and in the same year, he attended the Provisional Confederate Congress.
SEDDON, JamesAlexander, lawyer, born in Falmouth, Stafford County, Virginia, 13 July, 1815 ; died in Goochland county, Virginia, 19 August, 1880.
Thomas Seddon, his father, who was first a merchant and then a banker, was descended from John Seddon, of Lancashire, England, who settled in Stafford county, Virginia, in colonial days.
Seddon was of a frail constitution, and, owing to his delicate health, his early education was much neglected.
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