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Henry L. Benning

Henry Lewis Benning was a general in the Confederate States Army. He also was a lawyer, legislator, and judge on the Georgia Supreme Court. He commanded "Benning's Brigade" during the American Civil War. Following the Confederacy's defeat at the end of the war, he returned to his native Georgia, where he lived out the rest of his life. Fort Benning is named after him.

Judge | April 2, 1814 - July 10, 1875
First then, it is apparent, horribly apparent, that the slavery question rides insolently over every other everywhere - in fact that is the only question which in the least affects the results of the elections.
I think then, 1st, that the only safety of the South from abolition universal is to be found in an early dissolution of the Union. — © Henry L. Benning
I think then, 1st, that the only safety of the South from abolition universal is to be found in an early dissolution of the Union.
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