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Memoir 3, Page 105, James Curry

"He obtained the additional help of James Curry (of the Confederate Congress) in gaining an audience with the Rebel Chief."

James Curry (1825-1903) is most well-known as one of the biggest educational reformer of the nineteenth century. He began as a lawyer in Alabama and as a Congressman in the Alabama and US Congress throughout the 1850s until the state’s secession from the US. Following the outbreak of war, Curry was sent as a representative to Maryland to convince the state’s governor to secede from the Union. While he did serve as a Confederate Congressman for the first half of the war, by this time he had failed to win reelection. He served out the rest of the war on the front as the commander of the 5th Alabama Cavalry.