Derry served with Stonewall Jackson in Virginia and with Beauregard in Tennessee. Captured in Huntsville in 1862, he was exchanged for a Union prisoner, but was recaptured at Kennesaw Mountain two years later and held prisoner until the war’s end. After the war he became a distinguished professor of language at Wesleyan College and taught Woodrow Wilson as a student in Augusta. He was the author of at least three books: Perry’s History of the United States, the Story of the Confederate States, and The Industrial Strife of Brothers.
(1841-1926) (Olive, lot 3, row G)
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