Alexander Peter Stewart

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Alexander Peter Stewart (2 October 1821 - 30 August 1908) was born in Rogersville, Hawkins County, Tennessee. He graduated from the United States Military Academy in 1842, became Second Lieutenant in the Third Artillery, and was acting Assistant Professor of Mathematics at the Academy from 1843 to 31 May 1845, when he resigned. He was then Professor of Mathematics and Natural and Experimental Philosophy in Cumberland University, Tennessee from 1845 to 18499, and in Nashville University from 1854 to 1855, and became City Surveyor of Nashville in 1855. He was appointed by Governor Isham G. Harris major of the corps of artillery in the provisional army of Tennessee, 17 May 1861, and became brigadier-general in the Confederate army, 8 November, 1861, major-general, 2 June, 1863, and lieutenant-general, 23 June 1864. He was engaged in the battles of Belmont, Shiloh, Perryville, Murfreesboro', and the campaign about Hoover's Gap, Tullahoma, Chattanooga, and through the Dalton-Atlanta campaign under General Joseph E. Johnston. He was with General John B. Hood in his movements in the rear of General Sherman's army, and destroyed the railroads and captured the garrison at Big Shanty and Acworth. He was at Franklin and Nashville under Hood, and at Cole's Farm, in North Carolina, under Johnston. In 1868 he became professor of mathematics and natural philosophy in the University of Mississippi, and chancellor of the university.