The Road to Civil War

Sydenham Moore

(25 May, 1817 — 31 May, 1862) Moore was an American lawyer and politician. Born in Rutherford county, Tenn., Moore attendd the University of Alabama to study law in 1833 and was admitted to the bar in 1836. Moore served as judge of Green County court from 1840-1846 and judge of the Circuit Court in 1857. Moore served in the Mexican-American war as Captain in Colonel Coffey's regiment of Alabama Infantry until 1847, later being elected brigadier genreal of Alabama Militia. Moore was elected as a Democrat to the Thirty-fifth and Thirty-sixth Congresses and served from March 4th, 1857 to January 21, 1861. After he withdrew, he served as a Colonel of the Eleventh Alabama Regiment in the Confederate Army until he died from wounds after the Battle of Seven Pines. [Source: 'Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1774- Present', available at http://bioguide.congress.gov/biosearch/biosearch.asp]

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