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Lawrence O'bryan BranchLawrence OBryan Branch, was a Confederate General and a Representative from North Carolina in the U.S. Congress; born in Enfield, Halifax County, N.C., November 28 1820; pursued a preparatory course under a private teacher in Washington, D.C., and at the Bingham Military Academy in North Carolina; attended the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill for a short time and was graduated from Princeton College in 1838; studied law at Nashville, Tennessee, and owned and edited a newspaper there; moved to Tallahassee, Florida, in 1840; was admitted to the bar in Florida in 1840 by a special act of the legislature and commenced practice in Tallahassee; fought in the Seminole War in 1841; moved to Raleigh, North Carolina, in 1852 and continued the practice of law; president of the Raleigh & Gaston Railroad Co.; elected as a Democrat to the Thirty-fourth, Thirty-fifth, and Thirty-sixth Congresses (March 4 1855 to March 3 1861); was not a candidate for renomination in 1860; appointed Secretary of the Treasury by President James Buchanan December 2 1860, but declined; entered the Confederate Army in May 1861 and was appointed brigadier general the same year; senior brigadier general in A.P. Hills division, Stonewall Jacksons corps; killed in the Battle of Antietam, Sharpsburg, Maryland, while in command of the Fourth Brigade, North Carolina Troops, September 17 1862; interment in Old City Cemetery, Raleigh, N.C. Lawrence OBryan Branch, Congressional Intervention in Regard to Slavery in the Territories. Letter of Lawrence O'B. Branch to His Constituents (1860). Branch, Lawrence O'Bryan Branch, Lawrence O'Bryan Branch, Lawrence O'Bryan Branch, Lawrence O'Bryan
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