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| rdfs:comment | - James Gallant Spears (March 29, 1816 – July 22, 1869) was an American general who served in the Union Army during the Civil War. Leading a unit composed primarily of Tennessee loyalists, he participated in early battles in the Cumberland Gap area before marching with the Army of the Cumberland at Stones River and Chickamauga. He later provided support for the Knoxville Campaign.
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| death place | - Bledsoe County, Tennessee
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| Birth Place | - Bledsoe County, Tennessee, United States
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| Battles | - American Civil War
- Stones River
- Chickamauga
- Camp Wildcat
- Cumberland Gap
- Knoxville Campaign
- Mill Springs
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| placeofburial | - Pikeville City Cemetery
- Pikeville, Tennessee
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| abstract | - James Gallant Spears (March 29, 1816 – July 22, 1869) was an American general who served in the Union Army during the Civil War. Leading a unit composed primarily of Tennessee loyalists, he participated in early battles in the Cumberland Gap area before marching with the Army of the Cumberland at Stones River and Chickamauga. He later provided support for the Knoxville Campaign. An ardent Southern Unionist, Spears was appointed vice president of the 1861 East Tennessee Union Convention, which sought to form a separate, Union-aligned state in East Tennessee. He opposed the abolition of slavery, however, and was dismissed from the Army in 1864 for speaking out against the Emancipation Proclamation.
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