Albert Taylor 1809-1877 Bledsoe

Albert Taylor Bledsoe (1809–1877) was an American priest, mathematician, attorney, and Confederate army officer who became a prominent proslavery theorist and an architect of the Lost Cause ideology after the Civil War. He served as the acting assistant secretary of war for the Confederacy and authored influential works such as 'Liberty and Slavery,' defending slavery as essential to societal order. Bledsoe was also a close associate of Abraham Lincoln in his early years in Springfield, Illinois, before later becoming a critic of Lincoln and the Union.