Person:Alfred Bledsoe (2)

Name^[1]	Albert Taylor Bledsoe
Gender	Male
Birth^[1]^[2]	9 Nov 1809	Frankfort, Franklin, Kentucky, United States
Marriage		to Harriet Coxe (add)
Education`^?`	1830	West Point
Occupation^[1]	From 1854 to 1861	VirginiaUniversity of Virginia, Professor of Mathematics
Death^[1]	8 Dec 1877	Alexandria, Virginia, United Statesage 68 -

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Albert Taylor Bledsoe

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Albert Taylor Bledsoe
↑ Biography, in Hurst, John Fletcher. History of Methodism
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Mentioned, in Ellison, Betty Boles. True Mary Todd Lincoln
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... Alfred Taylor Bledsoe who schooled [Abraham] Lincoln in the use of the broadsword when he was challenged to a duel by James Shields ...
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Wilson, Lori Jean 1974-, "Albert Taylor Bledsoe : Whig intellectual and proslavery theorist." (2012). Electronic Theses and Dissertations.
Paper 1582.
http://dx.doi.org/10.18297/etd/1582
Albert Taylor Bledsoe, in Wikipedia: The Free Encyclopedia
Last retrieved Feb 2016.

Albert Taylor Bledsoe (November 9, 1809 – December 8, 1877) was an Episcopal priest, attorney, professor of mathematics, and officer in the Confederate army and was best known as an architect of the Lost Cause and defender of the Old South and of slavery.