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  1. James B. Gordon was a distant cousin of Confederate General John Brown Gordon. After studying at Emory and Henry College in Emory, Virginia, he returned to Wilkes County and became a successful mercantile businessman and a prominent member of the community. He served several terms as a Wilkes County commissioner and spent one term in the North ...

  2. www.ncpedia.org › biography › gordon-james-byronGordon, James Byron | NCpedia

    2 Nov. 1822–18 May 1864. James Byron Gordon, merchant, farmer, politician, and Confederate soldier, was born at Wilkesboro. His family, of Scottish descent, was founded by John George Gordon who emigrated from Scotland in 1724 and settled first in Maryland and finally in Spotsylvania County, Va. Two of the sons of John George Gordon's large ...

  3. James Beck Gordon (July 14, 1945 – March 13, 2023) was an American musician, songwriter, and convicted murderer. Gordon was a session drummer in the late 1960s and 1970s and was the drummer in the blues rock supergroup Derek and the Dominos . In 1983, in a psychotic episode associated with undiagnosed schizophrenia, Gordon murdered his mother ...

  4. Aug 11, 2001 · Share This Article. Stuart’s Tarheels: James B. Gordon and His North Carolina Cavalry, by Chris J. Hartley, Butternut and Blue Press, Baltimore, Md., $35. The image that immediately leaps to mind when someone says “Civil War cavalryman” is that of a dashing young man charging an enemy line on a beautiful, full-blooded stallion.

  5. Oct 20, 2020 · James Byron Gordon (November 2, 1822 – May 18, 1864) was a brigadier general in the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War. He was killed in action at the Battle of Meadow Bridge. Early life. Gordon was born in Wilkes County, North Carolina to Nathaniel and Sarah Gwyn Gordon. James B. Gordon was a distant cousin of Confederate ...

    • Wilkes Co. Nc
    • November 2, 1822
    • Wilkesboro, Wilkes, NC, United States
    • May 18, 1864
  6. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › James_CordenJames Corden - Wikipedia

    James Kimberley Corden [1] OBE (born 22 August 1978 [2]) is an English actor, comedian, singer, writer, producer, and former television host. [3] In the United Kingdom, he is best known for co-writing and starring in the critically acclaimed BBC sitcom Gavin & Stacey. In the United States, he is best known as the host of The Late Late Show with ...

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  8. When Confederate Major General J.E.B. Stuart said "North Carolina has done nobly in this army," he had one of his own men to thank: Brigadier General James Byron Gordon. A protege of Stuart, Gordon was the consummate nineteenth-century landowner, politician, and businessman.

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