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PRYOR, ROGER ATKINSON (1828– )

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Originally appearing in Volume V22, Page 533 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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PRYOR, See also:ROGER See also:ATKINSON (1828– ) , See also:American jurist and politician, was See also:born near See also:Petersburg, See also:Virginia, on the 19th of See also:July 1828. He graduated at See also:Hampden-See also:Sidney See also:College in 1845 and at the See also:law school of the university of Virginia in 1848, and in 1849 was admitted to the See also:bar, but devoted himself for some years to journalism. He served as a Democrat in the See also:National See also:House of Representatives from See also:December 1859 to See also:March 1861, and was re-elected for the succeeding See also:term, but owing to the See also:secession of Virginia did not take his seat. He served in the provisional Confederate See also:congress (1861) and also in the first See also:regular congress (1862) of the Confederate constitution. He entered the Confederate See also:army as a See also:colonel, became a brigadier-See also:general (See also:April 16, 1862), and took See also:part in the battles of See also:Williams-See also:burg, Seven Pines, second See also:Bull Run and See also:Antietam. Owing to adisagreement with See also:President See also:Davis he resigned his See also:commission in 1863, but entered General Fitzhugh See also:Lee's See also:cavalry as a private in See also:August of that See also:year. He was taken prisoner on the 28th of See also:November 1864, but was released on See also:parole by See also:order of the president. In 1865 he removed to New See also:York See also:City, where he practised law. He was See also:judge of the New York See also:court of See also:common pleas in 1890-1894, and of the New York supreme court in 1894–1899. His wife, Sara See also:Agnes (See also:Rice) Pryor (b. 183o), published The See also:Mother of See also:Washington and her Times (19o3), Reminiscences of See also:Peace and See also:War (1904), The See also:Birth of the Nation (1907), and My See also:Day: Reminiscences of a See also:Long See also:Life (1909).

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